Otterskirchen
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Otterskirchen
Windorf market
Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ′ 23 " N , 13 ° 17 ′ 27" E
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| Height : | 405 m | |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1975 | |
| Postal code : | 94575 | |
| Area code : | 08546 | |
Location of Otterskirchen in Bavaria |
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Otterskirchen is a district and a district of the Windorf market in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau .
location
The parish village is located on a ridge north of the Danube about four kilometers east of Windorf.
history
Otterskirchen was built around the year 800. It was first mentioned in a document in 1165 when a Walther de Otakerskirchen appeared as a witness at the Vornbach monastery . With the County of Windberg it came to the Passau bishopric through purchase in 1207 and usually had the rank of Hofmark . From 1227 until its extinction in 1375, the Counts of Hals owned the fiefdom , then various lords.
In 1622, Johann Groß, the first schoolmaster, is documented. In the Thirty Years War Otterskirchen was sacked by the Swedes in 1634, after the war ended, 482 people in the parish fell victim to the plague in 1649. In 1690 Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp Graf von Lamberg bought back the fief of Georg Adolph Graf von Tattenbach for the Passau bishopric .
The old schoolhouse was built in 1796. After secularization , Otterskirchen became part of Bavaria and became a tax district in 1807 and a municipality in 1818 . In 1887 the Ebersberg Section of the Bavarian Forest Association built the observation tower on the Ebersberg. The war memorial was erected in 1921 and the sports field in 1937. Pastor Josef Mitterer was sentenced to death for comments critical of the regime during the Nazi era and executed on November 1, 1943 in Berlin-Brandenburg.
After the end of the war, the town, which had around 1200 locals at the time, took in 1080 displaced persons and refugees. In 1950 Otterskirchen was given street lighting, in 1954 the newly built school building was inaugurated, and in 1958 the first asphalt road was laid. The community became known in 1969 through a meteorite fall . As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , the Otterskirchen community came to Windorf on January 1, 1975.
Since 1946 there has been an annual memorial service in the parish church of St. Michael for the police officers of the police headquarters in Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate who died in the performance of their duties (until 2009 the police headquarters in Lower Bavaria / Upper Palatinate ). The service always takes place at the end of March or the beginning of April and is especially dedicated to the memory of gendarme Sebastian Schütz, who was killed by a felon on April 1, 1878 in Otterskirchen and is also buried at the local cemetery.
Attractions
- The parish church of St. Michael has a Gothic choir. In 1712 the church received its acanthus altar and in 1744 its onion top . In 1763, the nave of the Romanesque church , which dates back to the 12th century, was rebuilt in the Baroque style by Johann Goldberger .
societies
- FC Otterskirchen (founded 1962)
- WSV Otterskirchen (founded 1983)
- Volunteer Fire Brigade Otterskirchen (founded 1874)
- KSRV Otterskirchen (founded 1854)
- VdK Otterskirchen
- Theater group Otterskirchen
- Vorwaldschützen Otterskirchen
- Dartverein Stachus Tornados Otterskirchen
- Women's Association of Otterskirchen.
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 620 .