Ottersheim near Landau

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Coat of arms of the local community Ottersheim near Landau
Ottersheim near Landau
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Ottersheim bei Landau highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '  N , 8 ° 14'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Germersheim
Association municipality : Bellheim
Height : 124 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.89 km 2
Residents: 1825 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 231 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 76879
Area code : 06348
License plate : GER
Community key : 07 3 34 023
Association administration address: Schubertstrasse 18
76756 Bellheim
Website : www.ottersheim-pfalz.de
Local Mayor : Gerald job
Location of the local community Ottersheim near Landau in the district of Germersheim
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Ottersheim bei Landau is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Bellheim .

geography

The place lies between Germersheim and Landau in the Palatinate in Queichtal . The Eichenhof, Gärtnerhof, Marienhof and Rosenhof residential areas also belong to Ottersheim .

history

A stone ax from the early Stone Age and various objects from the Roman period were found in the Ottersheim district . Today's Ottersheim was founded during the Franconian conquest around the year 500, when the present-day district is said to have been assigned to the warrior Udomar and his clan. As far as we know today, the place was first mentioned in a document in 768 in the Lorsch Codex as Udomarsheimer marca (Ottersheimer district). The name, which is still valid today, was formed through Hudamareshaim, Hoteresheim, Othersheim by 1318.

From 1618 to 1619 today's church was built on the site of a dilapidated church. At the time of construction, the villagers were of the Reformed faith, but this changed in 1626 after Maximilian of Bavaria gained the electoral dignity in the Thirty Years' War and in 1650 with the implementation of the obligation to restore the old church conditions as part of the Peace of Westphalia . After the occupation of the places south of the Queich by Ludwig XIV. In 1680, the people of Ottersheim gradually accepted the Catholic faith again and the church was exclusively assigned to the Catholics in 1697, and until today it is definitely.

During the Weimar Republic , the town's Catholic character was reflected in the Reichstag elections, in which the center or the Bavarian People's Party as a sister party always had the majority. In the last free elections in the voting process and counting in March 1933 after Adolf Hitler's seizure of power, the NSDAP had a comparatively low share of votes of 28.7% (Palatinate constituency: 46.5%, German Reich: 43.9%).

79 Ottersheim men died as soldiers in World War II . The village itself survived the war largely unscathed: There was no bomb attack on the place.

Population development

If not listed separately, the source of the data is the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate.

year Residents
1802 644
1815 927
1835 986
1849 1068
1861 974
1871 975
1905 1029
year Residents
1939 1177
1950 1240
1965 1273
1970 1351
1975 1370
1980 1406
1985 1488
year Residents
1990 1613
1995 1784
2000 1851
2005 1848
2010 1809
2013 1839
2015 1844

religion

Town hall in front of the Catholic parish church of St. Martin

In 2012, 68.2 percent of the population were Catholic and 18.7 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. In 1871, of a total of 975 inhabitants, 804 were Catholic (82 percent), 169 Protestant (17 percent) and two were Jewish.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Ottersheim consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor Gerald Job as chairman.

Distribution of seats:

choice SPD CDU FWG job FWG Kreiner total
2019 2 2 7th 5 16 seats
2014 2 6th 8th - 16 seats
2009 2 5 9 - 16 seats
2004 2 7th 7th - 16 seats

Local mayor

1974-1979 Hugo Müller (CDU)
1979-2004 Helmut Stadel (FWG)
since 2004 Gerald Job (FWG Job)

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Gerald Job was confirmed in office for another five years with a share of 67.22% of the vote.

coat of arms

Banner, coat of arms and flag
Banner Ottersheim near Landau.svg DEU Ottersheim near Landau COA.svg
Flag Ottersheim bei Landau.svg
Blazon : “Divided and split at the top,roughened with silver and blue at thetop right , two silver bars in red at the top left, covered with a black crossbow, at the bottom in gold a black ring with a button-like pin on the lower ring, in the middle a six-pointed ring red star hovers. "

It was approved by the Mainz Interior Ministry in 1954 .

The reason for the coat of arms: The diamonds symbolize the former affiliation to the Electoral Palatinate , the colors silver and red stand for the Lords of Ochsenstein , who exercised feudal rule in the 14th and 15th centuries, and the crossbow comes from the Eusserthal monastery , which had been the patron saint since 1311. The ring goes back to the local court seal from 1746.

Culture and sights

In 2011, the municipality of Ottersheim won the district, regional and state decision in the competition Our village won the future and is thus the 2011 Rhineland-Palatinate state winner.

The Lange Straße in Ottersheim, an essential part of the town center, was portrayed in 2014 in the series “Hierzuland” on SWR television.

traffic

The L509 runs through the village, which runs from Landau in the Palatinate in the west to Bundesstraße 9 . Connection to the federal highway 9, which leads from Karlsruhe to Speyer , exists in the east of the municipality near Bellheim. In the west, near Landau in the Palatinate, there is a connection to the federal motorway 65 , which leads from Karlsruhe via Neustadt an der Weinstrasse to Ludwigshafen am Rhein .
Ottersheim belongs to the Rhein-Neckar transport association and is served by bus routes 550, 559 and 552 . The nearest train stations for regional traffic are Bellheim (Germersheim-Karlsruhe line), Germersheim (direction Karlsruhe, Ludwigshafen / Mannheim / Heidelberg and Bruchsal ) and Landau in der Pfalz (direction Karlsruhe, Neustadt an der Weinstraße including connections to Kaiserslautern and Ludwigshafen / Mannheim or Pirmasens). The next long-distance train stations are Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Karlsruhe and Mannheim.

Born in Ottersheim near Landau

literature

  • Fritz Steegmüller: Ottersheim. In the district of Germersheim. A home book for the 1200 year celebration of the village in 1968. Kraemer, Landau 1968. Online.
  • Fritz Steegmüller: Ottersheim by Landau - A Home Town History. Translated by Stephen Hank, Amazon Leipzig, 2013. ISBN 1-4793-7428-8
  • Berthold Feldmann: At home in Ottersheim - history & stories. Odenwald, Bellheim 2000. ISBN 3-929893-10-X .

Web links

Commons : Ottersheim bei Landau  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 146 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ^ Karl Josef Minst [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2090, August 12, 768 - Reg. 312. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 40 , accessed on February 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Steegmüller, p. 20 ff.
  5. ↑ Steegmüller, p. 156 ff.
  6. ↑ Steegmüller, p. 129
  7. ↑ wahlen-in-deutschland.de: Wahlkreis Pfalz
  8. ^ Gonschior.de: Germany: Election to the 8th Reichstag in 1933
  9. ↑ Steegmüller, p. 140 f.
  10. ↑ Steegmüller, p. 138
  11. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Ottersheim near Landau
  12. ^ A b c Official directory and statistics of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate, 1863, p. XXXI of the appendix.
  13. ↑ a b Results of the census in the Kingdom of Bavaria from December 1, 1871 according to individual communities, 1873, p. 65.
  14. ↑ Ewois, as of December 31, 2012
  15. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  16. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bellheim, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
  17. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
  18. ↑ http://www.isim.rlp.de/no_cache/einzelansicht/archive/2011/september/article/lewentz-gibt-wettbewerbssieger-unser-dorf-hat-zukunft-bekannt/
  19. ↑ "Hierzuland: Lange Straße in Ottersheim" - Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz, SWR TV, January 17, 2014
  20. ↑ Verkehrsverbund Rhein Neckar: Germersheim route network map. (PDF) Retrieved December 27, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar: rail network plan. (PDF) Retrieved December 27, 2017 .