Ottersburg

Ottersburg Community Tangerhuette Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 2 "  N , 11 ° 41 ′ 45"  E
Height :	52 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.31 km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Incorporated into:	Mountains of wind
Postal code :	39517
Area code :	039361
Location in Saxony-Anhalt
manor

Buildings on the estate

Inscription on the manor house

Ottersburg is part of the village of Windberge and the town of Tangerhütte , in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The Altmark village is remote on the road from Windberge to Brunkau 15 kilometers southwest of the district town of Stendal on the edge of the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide in the lowland area of ​​the Lüderitzer Tanger.

history

In the first documentary mention of 1375 in the land register of Emperor Karl IV. Ottersburg is referred to as Ostirburg with 24 interest hooves and two other hooves belonging to the pastor. Half of the village belonged to the von Lüderitz family, the other half to the sons of a Johannes Junge from Stendal . At that time Ottersburg had its own church that served as a pilgrimage church . The church has not been preserved, in 1753 there were only remains of it. From 1459 Ottersburg was led as a desert . The location of the old village can no longer be determined today.

Later, from 1718, it was a royal domain . The manor buildings that still exist today were built around 1850 and are under monument protection.

In 1909 Ottersburg was raised to a knighthood by Kaiser Wilhelm II .

The historian Peter Rohrlach holds the first documentary mention, mentioned by Johann Friedrich Danneil , from 1080 as Osterburgk after the manuscript Orig. Guelf. IV. 150 for inappropriate. The Counts of Osterburg-Veltheim had the place as a fief of the Helmstedt Monastery of St. Ludgeri . There should have been four knight seats here.

Incorporations

On September 30, 1928 was Gutsbezirk Otterburg in a rural municipality Otterburg converted. On September 14, 1963, Brunkau to the south was assigned to the Ottersburg community as a district. On January 1, 1974, the Ottersburg community was incorporated into the Windberge community. Both villages came to the municipality of Windberge.

Ottersburg has been a district of Tangerhütte since May 31, 2010, as Windberge was incorporated into Tangerhütte on that day.

population

year Residents 1772 9 1790 79 1798 63

year Residents 1801 55 1818 77 1840 110

year Residents 1864 116 1871 96 1885 77

year Residents 1905 70 1910 70 1925 98

year Residents 1939 76 1946 137 1964 208

year Residents 1971 192

Castle wall

Less than a kilometer east of the village is a hill, popularly known as the Schlossberg . During archaeological excavations in 2007, the remains of a castle, the so-called Ottersburg, were found there. The castle originally consisted of a fort surrounded by walls and moats. With the help of dendrochronological determinations, found wooden objects, including a paddle , could be dated to the 9th century. A rider's spur dates from the 10th century.

societies

In 2007 the cultural association for researching the history of Ottersburg e. V. which is primarily committed to researching the former castle and organizes a historical summer and children's festival every year.

Agriculture

In 1908 Friedrich von Lüderitz and his wife Marie bought back the property, which the family had no longer owned since 1718. During the land reform in 1945, the estate, a 326 hectare property, was completely expropriated. Of this, 126.6 hectares were divided between five poor farmers and 14 landless farmers and small tenants. In 1946 a provincial estate with 146 hectares was named, which was later divided among farmers. In 1953 the first agricultural production cooperative of type III, the LPG "Karl Marx", which later became the LPG animal production "7. October “Lüderitz rose and was active until 1993. In 1999, the current owner bought back lots of the settled courtyard and has been renovating the buildings and areas since then.

economy

Due to the scenic and secluded location, efforts are made to use it for tourism. Old manor buildings are used as accommodation.

traffic

Regular buses and on-call buses run by Regionalverkehr Westsachsen (RVW) under the brand name stendalbus .

religion

The Protestant Christians from Ottersburg originally belonged to the parish of Ottersburg with its own pastor and a church on site. Already in 1720 the church was only a vague to the church in Lüderitz. The later village of Ottersburg was churched after Lüderitz . Otterburg heard it today probably for the parish area Lüderitz of the church district Salzwedel in Propst Sprengel Stendal Magdeburg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

The oldest surviving church records for Ottersburg date from 1797.

Web links

• Village Windberge, Brunkau, Ottersburg and Schleuß on the pages of the unified municipality of Tangerhütte

literature

• A. Parisius, A. Brinkmann: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Gardelegen district . Otto Hendel, Halle an der Saale 1897, p. 138 .
• Wilhelm Zahn: Local history of the Altmark . Edited by Martin Ehlies based on the bequests of the author. 2nd Edition. Verlag Salzwedeler Wochenblatt, Graphische Anstalt, GmbH, Salzwedel 1928, p. 198 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Peter P. Rohrlach: Historical local lexicon for the Altmark (Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg, Part XII) . In: Publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-2235-5 , pp. 1625-1627 .
2. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
3. ↑ Johannes Schultze : The land book of the Mark Brandenburg from 1375 (=  Brandenburg land books . Volume 2 ). Commission publisher von Gsellius, Berlin 1940, p. 373 ( uni-potsdam.de ).
4. ^ Johann Christoph Becmann, Bernhard Ludwig Beckmann: Historical description of the Chur and Mark Brandenburg . Ed .: Berlin. tape 2 , 6th part, 1st book, 1753, p. 61 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A10936702_00397~SZ%3D~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
5. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1909, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 359 .
6. ^ Johann Friedrich Danneil : 4. The deserts of the Altmark . In: Annual reports of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History . 13th Annual Report, 1863, p. 77 , 155 Ottersburg, Osterburg ( altmark-geschichte.de [PDF]).
7. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 201 .
8. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 345-346 .
9. ^ Felix Biermann, Thomas Weber: Ottersburg: a castle wall in the Tangerniederung (southern Altmark) . Cooperation project Humboldt University Berlin / State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt. February 29, 2012 ( lda-lsa.de ).
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Homepage of the manager of the estate
11. ↑ Parish Almanac or the Protestant clergy and churches of the Province of Saxony in the counties of Wernigerode, Rossla and Stolberg . 19th year, 1903, ZDB -ID 551010-7 , p. 116 ( wiki-de.genealogy.net [accessed December 25, 2018]).
12. ↑ Ernst Machholz: The church books of the Protestant churches in the province of Saxony (=  communications from the Central Office for German Personal and Family History . 30th issue). Leipzig 1925, p. 17 ( wiki-de.genealogy.net [accessed December 25, 2018]).