Otterfing

This article describes the Upper Bavarian municipality of Otterfing. For the location in Upper Austria, see Otterfing (Feldkirchen municipality) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '  N , 11 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Miesbach
Height :	675 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.16 km 2
Residents:	4831 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	228 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	83624
Area code :	08024
License plate :	MB
Community key :	09 1 82 127
Community structure:	6 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Münchner Strasse 13 83624 Otterfing
Website :	www.otterfing.de
Mayor :	Michael Falkenhahn ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Otterfing in the Miesbach district

Otterfing is the northernmost municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Miesbach . It is located in the southern catchment area of Munich .

geography

Geographical location and municipality

Otterfing is located on moraine hills from the last Ice Age in the foothills of the Alps with a view of the Mangfall Mountains . The village of Otterfing is located in the middle of Upper Bavaria on the federal highway 13 only 4 km north of Holzkirchen directly on the southern border of the Munich district. In the north, the Hofoldinger Forest delimits the municipality. After this forest area was dissolved as a community-free area , parts of it were added to Otterfing on January 1, 2011.

It is 30 km to the state capital Munich, 23 km to the district town of Miesbach , 21 km to Wolfratshausen , 22 km to Bad Tölz and 37 km to Rosenheim .

Parish parts

The municipality has six officially named municipality parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

• Bergham ( Kirchdorf ), approx. 0.5 km west of the town center
• Heigenkam ( desert ), approx. 2.4 km northwest
• Holzham ( village ), approx. 0.7 km southeast
• Otterfing ( parish village )
• Palnkam (village), approx. 1.6 km southwest of the town center and 1 km west of the federal highway 13
• Wettlkam (Kirchdorf), approx. 2.2 km northwest

Neighboring communities

Sauerlach , Aying (both districts of Munich), Holzkirchen (district of Miesbach) and Dietramszell (district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen).

history

Parish Church of St. George

Until the church is planted

Archaeological finds prove the settlement as early as the Celtic times. In 1942 the body grave of a woman from the late Roman period (approx. 350 to 355 AD) was discovered during excavation work near the train station . In addition to other grave goods, a coin from the reign of Constantius II was recovered from a depth of 1.30 meters .

Otterfing was first mentioned in a document in 1003 in a tradition book of the Tegernsee monastery as "Otolvinga". After many different spellings of place is in the already 1568 Bairischen country panels of Philipp Apian called Otterfing.

Otterfing has been an independent political municipality since the administrative reforms in Bavaria in 1818.

District affiliation

Until July 1, 1972 Otterfing belonged to what was then the Wolfratshausen district . When this was merged with the Bad Tölz district, Otterfing joined the Miesbach district.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 3,271 to 4,783 by 1,512 inhabitants or 46.2%.

• 1818: 0435 inhabitants
• 1875: 0629 inhabitants
• 1945: 0768 inhabitants
• 1950: 1492 inhabitants
• 1961: 1542 inhabitants
• 1970: 1925 inhabitants
• 1975: 2489 inhabitants
• 1991: 3476 inhabitants
• 1995: 3719 inhabitants
• 2000: 4122 inhabitants
• 2005: 4,337 inhabitants
• 2010: 4519 inhabitants
• 2013: 4605 inhabitants
• 2014: 4650 inhabitants
• 2015: 4699 inhabitants
• 2016: 4812 inhabitants
• 2017: 4846 inhabitants
• 2018: 4783 inhabitants

politics

Municipal council

After the last local election on March 15, 2020 , the council has 16 members.

Allocation of seats in the Otterfing municipal council since 2020

     

A total of 16 seats

• SPD : 3
• Greens : 3
• FWG : 1
• FW : 3
• CSU : 6

coat of arms

Otterfing has only had its own municipal coat of arms since 1972.

It shows the three golden crowns of the Tegernsee Monastery on a blue background. In the middle are two silver ibexes from the coat of arms of the von Kurz von Senftenau family, from whom the Counts of Valley descended. Tegernsee and Valley were important landowners in the area until the community was formed in 1818.

The gold-colored arch below symbolizes the Teufelsgraben , a dry valley south of Otterfing, in which the meltwater of the Isar-Loisach glacier once flowed.

traffic

Otterfing is on the Munich – Holzkirchen railway line and is directly connected to the Munich S-Bahn line S3, which runs every 20 or 40 minutes in the direction of Munich and Holzkirchen. The Bayerische Oberlandbahn serves Otterfing during rush hour.

The federal highway 13 runs through the town in a north-south direction. The federal highway 8 is three kilometers east of the town center; the next junction, Sauerlach in the north, is ten kilometers away and Holzkirchen in the south is eight kilometers.

Religions

About 59% of the population are Roman Catholic, 14% Protestant; approx. 27% do not belong to anybody or belong to another religious community.

Parish church and landmark of Otterfing is St. Georg . Filial churches have the districts Bergham (St. Valentin) and Wettlkam (Holy Cross).

The United Methodist Church has a worship center in Otterfing.

Two assemblies (congregations) of Jehovah's Witnesses share the community hall (so-called Kingdom Hall) located in Otterfing.

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

The old math farm

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Otterfing

societies

• Burschenverein Otterfing
• Eisenbahnfreunde München Südost eV
• Otterfing Volunteer Fire Brigade
• Horticultural Association
• Mountain costume conservation association " D 'Teufelsgraber ".
• Beekeeping Association
• Veterans and warriors' association Otterfing-Baiernrain

music

• Otterfing Music Association

Sports

• Club de Budo
• Wettlkam riding club
• Riding and vaulting friends Oberland
• Schützengesellschaft Otterfing
• Gymnastics and sports club Otterfing
• DAV section Otterfing

Regular events

Birds of prey sanctuary

• Mardi Gras ball dance on Vesuvius , since 1980 on Mardi Gras Saturday
• Carnival procession on Shrove Tuesday
• Otterfinger village festival, since 2004, three days in late July / early August
• Otterfinger Challenge-Cup, since 2002, the best-attended U-13 soccer tournament in southern Germany
• South Tyrolean Wine Festival, since 1978 three days on the first weekend in September
• Christmas market on the fourth Sunday of Advent

Birds of prey station

Alfred Aigner has been running a rescue center for birds of prey from the wider area since 1987. In 2012, the station was expanded in a new building between Otterfing and the Wettlkam district.

education

Municipal administration, built around 1900 as a school building

There are the following institutions (status: 2010):

Kindergartens

• House for children, community kindergarten
• Montessori kindergarten and crèche
• Catholic kindergarten St. Georg

schools

• Otterfing primary school

School lunch care

• Swallow's Nest eV
• Rappelkiste eV

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Anna Rambeck (1920–2002), teacher in Otterfing from 1942 to 1975
• Walter Ullmann (1926–2012), local councilor from 1972 to 1995, as well as 1947 founder of the VdK local association and from 1947 to 2006 its chairman

Personalities who live in Otterfing

• Katja Ebstein (* 1945), singer and actress, lives and works in the Wettlkam district
• Lisa Müller (* 1989), dressage rider
• Thomas Müller (* 1989), soccer player for FC Bayern Munich
• Klaus Naumann (* 1939), General a. D. of the Army of the Bundeswehr , from 1991 to 1996 Inspector General of the Bundeswehr
• Beatrix Vogel (* 1945), philosopher

literature

• Eduard Moser: An Upper Bavarian farming village in the Holzlande - Otterfing near Holzkirchen (Upper Bavaria) , Heimatbuchverlag Müller & Königer, Munich, 1925
• Otterfing community (editor): Otterfing - Heimatbuch , Volume 1, 2005

Web links

Commons : Otterfing  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the coat of arms of Otterfing  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Otterfing: Official statistics of the LfStat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ Incorporation of the Hofoldinger Forest brings many advantages in: Münchner Merkur-Online from January 28, 2011
3. ^ Community Otterfing in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on September 7, 2019.
4. ^ Bavarian State Office for Statistics: Municipality of Otterfing 09 182 127. A selection of important statistical data.
5. ↑ [1]
6. ^ Otterfinger Challenge Cup
7. ↑ Birds of prey station should arouse fascination in the Munich Merkur
8. ^ Walter Ullmann's obituary notice. Münchener Zeitungs-Verlag GmbH & Co.KG, July 9, 2012, accessed on May 15, 2016 .