Ottersberg

This article describes the location near Bremen in Lower Saxony; the place near Munich in Bavaria see Ottersberg (Pliening) ; see also: Otterberg (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 7 '  N , 9 ° 9'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Verden
Height :	14 m above sea level NHN
Area :	99.07 km 2
Residents:	12,957 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	131 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	28870
Primaries :	04205, 04293 , 04297
License plate :	VER
Community key :	03 3 61 008
Address of the municipal administration:	Grüne Strasse 24 28870 Ottersberg
Website :	www.flecken-ottersberg.de
Mayor :	Tim Willy Weber (Free Green Citizens List Ottersberg)
Location of the municipality of Ottersberg in the district of Verden

Ottersberg ( Low German Otterbarg ) is a place in the north of the district of Verden , Lower Saxony , and namesake for the unified community Flecken Ottersberg.

geography

Geographical location

Ottersberg and Fischerhude are in the Wümmeniederung , Quelkhorn and Otterstedt on the ridge of the Zevener Geest (terminal moraines) and Posthausen is the union of the street villages of Ottersberg in the cultivated moor. It is the Findorff structures that are named after Jürgen Christian Findorff , who planned the settlement of the Teufelsmoor around 250 years ago . They are called, among others, Allerdorf, Grasdorf, Hintzendorf, Schanzendorf, Stellenfelde, Mitteldorf, Giersdorf.

Community structure

Since the municipal administrative and territorial reform in 1972, the unified community Flecken Ottersberg has consisted of the localities Flecken Ottersberg and Flecken Fischerhude as well as Otterstedt , Posthausen and Narthauen . Other places in the unified municipality are Benkel, Eckstever , Grasdorf, Ottersberg-Bahnhof and Quelkhorn .

Neighboring communities

Ottersberg borders in the west on the city of Bremen (federal state of Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ), in the southwest on Oyten , in the south on Langwedel , in the east on the Sottrum ( district of Rotenburg (Wümme) ), in the north on the joint municipality of Tarmstedt (district of Rotenburg (Wümme )) and in the north to Grasberg and Lilienthal ( Osterholz district ).

history

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Ottersberg was occupied by the Danes during the Thirty Years' War and was not an insignificant scene of fighting

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In the Swedish-Brandenburg War from 1675 to 1676, the Swedish Ottersberg was conquered in a campaign by several states of the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark and remained an Allied property until the end of the war in 1679.

In the course of the Peace of Saint-Germain in 1679 Ottersberg fell back to Sweden. In the further course Ottersberg came to the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , to the Kingdom of Westphalia , under Napoléon Bonaparte to the Département des Bouches-du-Weser of the French Empire . Until 1866 Ottersberg was part of the Kingdom of Hanover . After it was annexed by Prussia , it was located in the Prussian province of Hanover , which became the state of Hanover after the Second World War and finally the state of Lower Saxony . After the Second World War , the district of Ottersberg-Bahnhof developed south of the railway line , in particular due to the settlement of many refugees and displaced persons . This district has its own center along Verdener Straße.

On December 30, 1906, at Ottersberg station, an express train , whose engine driver had not seen the signal to “stop” in thick fog , drove into the flank of a freight train shunting there . Eight people died.

→ Main article : Ottersberg railway accident

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the municipalities of Fischerhude (Flecken), Narthauen, Otterstedt and Posthausen were combined with the Flecken Ottersberg to form a single municipality.

politics

Municipal council

The municipality council of the municipality of Ottersberg consists of 28 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 11,001 and 12,000. The 28 council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The term of office began on November 1, 2011 and ended on October 31, 2016.

The full-time mayor is also entitled to vote in the council of the municipality.

The local elections on September 11, 2011 resulted in the following:

• CDU : 11 seats
• SPD : 6 seats
• Greens : 3 seats
• WG Free Green Citizens List: 6 seats
• The left : 1 seat
• FDP: 1 seat

The local election in September 2016 resulted in this distribution of seats:

• CDU-FDP: 12 council members
• SPD: 6 council members
• Alliance 90 / The Greens: 3 council members
• Free Green Citizens List Ottersberg FGBO: 6 council members
• Die LINKE: 1 council member

mayor

The full-time mayor of the Ottersberg community is Tim Willy Weber. He was elected on April 26, 2020 with 51.6% of the vote and prevailed against the CDU candidate Rainer Sterna. He succeeds Horst Hofmann (CDU), who will retire on July 1, 2020. In the last mayoral election on May 25, 2014, he was re-elected as incumbent with 51.5% of the vote. The turnout was 60.5%. Hofmann began his further term on November 1, 2014.

coat of arms

The municipality's coat of arms shows an otter rising up out of the water with a fish in its mouth on a blue background (Wümme). The otter is not depicted naturalistically, but heraldically altered with a lion's head and eagle's claws.

Partnerships

Ottersberg is represented in the Lower Saxony / Bremen municipal association.

Culture and sights

Amtshof

Directly in Ottersberg is the castle-like Amtshof from 1585, which used to be a castle. Here also the remains of the Wall-and moat (graft or are moat ) was obtained. Completely restored, the monument has housed the Free Rudolf Steiner School since 1946 .

church

The original chapel, built as a branch of the Otterstedt parish, was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . In 1667/68 a new church was built. It has had a fixed bell tower since 1842, which replaced the old wooden freestanding bell tower. In 1959 the parish became independent, the church was named Christopherus Church. The church belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Ottersberg.

Artist tradition Fischerhude

In Fischerhude you can still find the accommodations of artists like Otto Modersohn . Otto Modersohn lived in the house of Frese Bodderweg / Wilhelmshauser Str. In Quelkhorn. He is buried in the Quelkhorn cemetery.

The artist Martin Voßwinkel also lives and works in Ottersberg .

Jewish cemetery Otterstedt

In the Jewish cemetery , which is on the road between Otterstedt and Ottersberg, there are 27 mazewas (gravestones) for Jews from Ottersberg and the surrounding area who died between 1835 (probably from 1810) to 1920. The cemetery is a protected cultural monument .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In the district of Posthausen, the dodenhof department store developed into one of the largest shopping centers in northern Germany. The Buss food industry is also important .

Ottersberg owns branches of Volksbank Wümme-Wieste eG and Kreissparkasse Verden .

Public facilities

The closest hospitals are the Aller-Weser-Klinik in Achim , the Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg , the hospitals in Bremen and the Residenz-Klinik in Lilienthal .

education

Ottersberg is the seat of the Ottersberg University of Applied Sciences with the bachelor's degree courses in social arts, art therapy , social theater and fine arts; also the Free Rudolf Steiner School Ottersberg , a Waldorf school , the Wümmeschule (secondary and secondary school) and the Ottersberg grammar school (secondary level I) as well as the primary schools in Fischerhude with a branch in Otterstedt and Posthausen.

traffic

Street

The place is on the A1 between Bremen and Hamburg and on state roads to Bremen and Verden. You can get to Ottersberg via the Posthausen and Stuckenborstel exits .

railroad

The town has a station on the Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg railway on which part of the Hanseatic network circulating regional trains the metronom railway company on the joint 41 Hamburg-Bremen RB hold. During construction, the railway line passed south of the village. The station is still called Ottersberg (Hanover) by Deutsche Bahn because it is located in the historic state of Hanover . The station building has housed the Kulturverein Bahnhof e. V. - Initiative for new living , which also manages it. At the time, students bought the building, converted it into a dormitory, and in this way saved the structure of the listed building from deterioration.

Cycle tourism

The Hamburg – Bremen long-distance cycle route runs through the village .

Personalities

Daughters and sons of the place

• Minna Heineman, b. Hertz (1847–1927), namesake of the Minna James Heineman Foundation
• Hermann Kunst (1907–1999), Protestant military bishop, EKD representative at the federal government
• Harald Vogel (* 1941), organist, organologist

Other personalities

• Eduard Mohr (1828–1876), Africa explorer, lived in Ottersberg from 1870 to 1871.
• Hans Bohnenkamp (1893–1977), member of the SA and the NSDAP , officer, educator, university professor and university director, died in Ottersberg.
• Martin Lüttge (1943–2017), German actor and director, attended a Waldorf school in Ottersberg until the end of the 1950s.
• Moritz Rinke (* 1967), German playwright and novelist, attended the Ottersberg Waldorf School.
• Rafael Czichos (* 1990), German soccer player, played for TSV Ottersberg from 2008 to 2010 and as a youth .

literature

• Heidelore Kluge: We have always lived well together! The Jews in Ottersberg. Bremen 1994, 93 p. With 13 drawings by Gundula Dangschat
• Meike Boist, Ingrid Brandt and Cornelia Wolf-Becker (eds.): Memories of Mägde. Documentation of an exhibition. Ottersberg 2001, 63 p. With numerous illustrations
• Jürgen Bohmbach : Ottersberg. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 1 and 2 (1668 pp.), Göttingen 2005, pages 1238-1241; ISBN 3-89244-753-5
• Ute Fetkenhauer (Ed.): "We do flee" - escape experiences of women and children from Ottersberg. Ottersberg 2005, 203 pages with photos and contemporary documents.
• Hans-Cord Sarnighausen: Hanoverian judges and local lawyers from 1715 to 1859 in Ottersberg (Wümme) ; in: Landkreis Verden (Ed.): Yearbook for the Landkreis Verden 2014 , ibid. 2013, pp. 119-137.
• Manfred Ringmann: Livpaldus de Oterisburc (✝ 1043), In the footsteps of an Ottersberg lord and his castle ; in: Landkreis Verden (Ed.): Yearbook for the Landkreis Verden 2017 , ibid. 2016, pp. 55–74.

Web links

Commons : Ottersberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ^ Flecken Ottersberg - Our community , accessed on April 6, 2016
3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 247 .
4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 2, 2014
5. ↑ https://www.flecken-ottersberg.de/verwaltung-politik/politik-und-ratsinformation/rat-der-gemeinde/
6. ↑ Weber is the new mayor of Ottersberg. In: NDR. Retrieved May 15, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Individual results of the direct elections on May 25, 2014 in Lower Saxony , accessed on November 14, 2014
8. ↑ http://www.kirche-ottersberg.de/gebaeude/kirche Website of the parish, accessed on June 29, 2018