Ottingen

This article describes the village of Ottingen in Lower Saxony. For the French municipality of Oettingen / Ottingen in Lorraine, see Ottange .

Ottingen City of Visselhövede Coordinates: 52 ° 57 ′ 59 ″  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 24 ″  E
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	27374
Area code :	04262
Location of Ottingen in Lower Saxony

Ottingen is a district of the Lower Saxon town of Visselhövede on the western edge of the Lüneburg Heath . The village is located about three kilometers southeast of the city center on the federal highway 440 and has about 260 inhabitants.

geography

The village is located on the old road from Visselhövede to Dorfmark , today's federal road. Most of the buildings are located on an unnamed street that crosses the Chaussee in a north-south direction, along which the town extends a little over a kilometer, while it is quite narrow in an east-west direction; the built-up section of the federal road is only about 300 meters long.

Beyond the northern end of the village, the aforementioned little road leads after about another kilometer into the hamlet of Riepholm , which has always been part of Ottingen.

The Feldmark Ottingen consists largely of Geestboden . Ottingen has little moor , meadow and wood . In the north, the Feldmark is bounded by the Geestrücken between Wümme and Böhme - on which the Uelzen – Langwedel railway runs. In the south of Ottingen the terrain is lower and swampy. The Warnau flows through this valley, which has been called the “Ottinger Marsch” since ancient times , and its upper course is called Schneebach ( Lower German: Snede = border). It is said that the small stream was so swollen by heavy rain and thaw in the spring of 1889 that the Chausseebrücke was partly torn away and you could hear the roar of the water in the village.

history

In the area around Riepholm there are many barrows from the Bronze Age , which suggest a very early settlement of the area.

Ottingen was first mentioned in a document on October 11, 937 , when King Otto I gave the Magdeburg Church the place "Ottingha". Earlier names for Ottingen were Oding, Oddestinge, Ottodinge, Ottingha. Around 1244 the Walsrode monastery was an important landlord. In 1717 Ottingen came to the parish of Visselhövede.

Ottingen used to belong to the Principality of Lüneburg and Verden Abbey . In 1715 the former Verden Monastery became part of the Electorate of Hanover , which from 1815 was allowed to call itself the " Kingdom of Hanover ". After the German War in 1866, Hanover fell to Prussia . The Ottingen community was now part of the Rotenburg district in Hanover in the Lüneburg administrative district of the new Prussian province of Hanover . Ottingen has been part of the state of Lower Saxony since 1946.

The Verkoppelung of Ottingen took place from 1835 to 1845, by Riepholm from 1853 to 1868. East of Riepholm was until 1896 still everything Heath. Most of the heather was plowed with the steam plow in 1905 and 1908 , partly to arable land, partly to forest. In 1854 the tithe was redeemed in Riepholm. The amount of the redemption is not known. In 1856 Ottingen was replaced for the stately sum of 4500 Thaler Courant . The Langwedel-Uelzen railway line was built in 1873 . In 1907 the line became double-track. The train station in Riepholm was built in 1912 and inaugurated on October 20, 1912. A trip from Riepholm to Frielingen at that time cost 3rd class 20 Pfg . The road from Visselhövede via Ottingen to Dorfmark was expanded in 1875/76.

The localities of Ottingen and Riepholm belonged to the municipality of Ottingen, when the two localities became a municipality cannot be seen from the files. Riepholm was mentioned for the first time as early as 967, and a document from 1518 confirmed that Ulrich von Behr gave half his court to the church jury of Visselhövede, the “Kargswaren und Olderslüden” for 20 rhein. Sold guilders . At that time the place Riepholz was written, the name is said to come from Reepholz , which are long thin sticks of fir wood. Reepholz used to be used in plaited fences. Ottingen had 28 fireplaces with 177 inhabitants in 1849. In a later count in 1890, the number of fireplaces in Ottingen was 30 and in Riepholm 11. There were 165 inhabitants in Ottingen and 57 in Riepholm, for a total of 222 inhabitants. The residents were Vollhöfner, Halbhöfner, Pflugkötner, Brinkkötner, tenants, farmers and new farmers.

The number of houses was 31 until 1945. From 1945 to 1999 another 43 houses were built.

year	Ottingen		Riepholm		Population in total
	Houses	Pop.	Houses	Pop.
1951	37	274	12	111	385
1986	58	252	15th	61	313
1988	58	241	15th	75	316
1990	58	234	15th	73	307
1996	66	261	15th	80	341
1998	73	263	15th	79	342

The number of inhabitants increased due to the reception of the displaced and brisk construction activity after the currency reform . When it was incorporated in the city in 1974, it was 331 in 78 households. In 1987 there were 320 inhabitants, in 1998 342.

Mayors of the former municipality of Ottingen were:

• Cohrs, Joachim Hinrich from 1850–1865
• Hinrichs, Wilhelm 1865–1881
• Grünhagen, Heinrich 1881-1893
• Marquard, Hermann 1893–1904
• Helmke, Hermann 1904–1907
• Bremer, Hinrich 1907–1937
• Bremer, Friedrich 1937–1946
• Gerken, Wilhelm 1946–1956
• Carstens, Wilhelm 1956–1957
• Bremer, Friedrich 1957–1968
• Bunke, Hermann 1968–1974

As a result of the territorial reform of March 1, 1974, the municipality of Ottingen including Riepholm came to the city of Visselhövede, which grew by leaps and bounds to 158.8 km² and now had around 10,000 inhabitants.

religion

Most of the denominational (previously all) residents of the village belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church and were parish in Visselhövede. The cemetery in Ottingen was probably created around 1843, it was only intended for the town of Ottingen, Riepholm had to bury the deceased in Visselhövede.

politics

The head of the district of Ottingen is Joachim Schulz-tom Felde.

Culture and sights

The colloquial language of the farmers of Ottingen is partly Low German to this day .

• A replicated boundary stone was discovered on September 29, 1991 by the district archaeologist Dr. WD temple erected in Ottingen. The boundary stone was modeled on an original from 1576, which once marked the border between the Diocese of Verden and the Duchy of Lüneburg. In the Middle Ages, the border ran from Stellichte via the royal court at Bleckwedel , Kettenburg and Ottingen. In 1576, Bishop Eberhard had the often disputed border marked.
• On the notice board that has now been set up near the stone, detailed explanations of the stone and contemporary history can be found. Like its model, the new boundary stone bears the lion coat of arms of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg on the Lüneburg side and the coat of arms of the diocese with the striking cross of nails on the Verden side .

Economy and Infrastructure

Ottingen was a rural village. Almost all residents found their employment in agriculture . All farmers farmed their own fields and also kept cattle, horses , dairy cows , pigs and poultry . In addition to the farms, there were also a few handicrafts and businesses in the village of Ottingen , two restaurants , a carpentry , a blacksmith's shop , a general store, a butcher and a shoemaker . All the artisans and tradespeople in the village were also farmers.

At the beginning of 1870 the first Göpeldreschmaschinen came and in 1924 Ottingen got power from the overland plant. A Göpel stood for a long time in the courtyard at house no. 1.

The former citizens of Ottingen did not only deal with agriculture, but they also - as it is said - often transported loads from Lüneburg to Verden.

Today, tractors and machines have almost displaced horses from farms. But a horse lover in Ottingen still maintains the old tradition. Since 1995 he has been breeding the Hanoverian warmblood horse . There are still a few households that keep horses just to satisfy one child's wish of riding.

Another good source of income in olden times was sheep farming . In recent times sheep have been grazed again in orchards and small meadows in order to use the grass there, although sheep farming is not an economically profitable source of income these days.

In the past every farmer in the village had cows. Today only the farmer Friedhelm zum Felde in Ottingen is concerned with dairy farming, apart from arable farming, he has black and white herd book cows .

The farmer Heinrich Grünhagen does arable farming, farmer Fritz-Heinz Meyer arable farming, breeding and fattening pigs. At Lars Nieber's processing farm, pig fattening is carried out in addition to arable farming. The farmer Cord Grünhagen cultivates grain as well as breeding and fattening pigs.

The two farms in Riepholm, von Hörsten (formerly Bremer) and Wilkens (Eimers Hof), operate organic farming and direct marketing. The children can ride ponies at Hof Bochow.

Public facilities

On April 8, 1991 the groundbreaking ceremony took place for a new shooting range , the opening of which was celebrated on May 1, 1992.

The former potato pre-germination barn of the farmer Grünhagen has served as the entertainment room for the young people since 1996 . The village youth set up this room as required by themselves. The youth meeting takes place twice a week.

Riepholm has a kindergarten , almost all the small children in the village are looked after there. "Momo" was officially recognized as a childcare facility on October 1, 1989 by the Lüneburg district government. The children are looked after there from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. In December 1990 there were 15 children, by 1999 the number had increased.

Web links

• Ottingen village

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 245 .