Ottmarsfeld

Ottmarsfeld community Höttingen Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 58 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 42 ″  E
Height :	444  (414-447)  m
Residents :	72
Postal code :	91798
Area code :	09141
St. Otmar

The place Ottmarsfeld belongs to the municipality Höttingen ( administrative community Ellingen ) in the Central Franconian district Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . Ottmarsfeld used to be part of the formerly independent municipality of Fiegenstall .

location

The place is in the region of West Central Franconia, northeast of Ellingen, east of Bundesstraße 2 on the plateau of the Franconian Alb . The Ottmarsfelder Graben , a tributary of the Swabian Rezat, flows through Ottmarsfeld .

history

The place was first mentioned in writing in the Pontifical Gundekarianum as "Othmaresuelt" when the Eichstätter Bishop Otto consecrated a church there between 1182 and 1188. The church village is named after the church patron saint Ot (h) mar († 759), or after a first settler named Ottmar.

Towards the end of the Holy Roman Empire , the village comprised 13 farmsteads with around 80 inhabitants. Highly judicially it was subordinate to the Oberamt Gunzenhausen , lower judicially to the Oberamt Ellingen of the Teutonic Order , Ballei Franken . In addition to the landlords of the German Order, the parish of Fiegenstall also owned a Seldengut in the village; The Sandsee nursing office ran the bailiwick and tax authority over this farm .

After the secularization in Bavaria (1806) Ottmarsfeld belonged together with Höttingen and Oberndorf to the tax district and to the community of Weiboldshausen in the Weißenburg regional court and from 1852 to the Ellingen regional court from 1808 .

In 1950 the village consisted of 13 farms and 87 inhabitants. In the course of the regional reform in Bavaria , the community of Höttingen was formed on May 1, 1978 from the former independent communities Fiegenstall (with Ottmarsfeld), Höttingen and parts of the dissolved community of Weiboldshausen .

The first open space solar system in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district has been located between Ottmarsfeld and Fiegenstall on 13 hectares since 2009 .

Attractions

Catholic local church St. Otmar

→ Main article : St. Otmar (Ottmarsfeld)

It is a rectangular building with an attached in the east truss - roof skylights . Romanesque arched windows have been preserved on the east side ( choir side ) . The ceiling shows stucco from the Baroque (around 1670–80). On the altar you can see the coat of arms of the Teutonic Order Master Johann Caspar von Ampringen (1664–84), under which the church was made Baroque. The altarpiece (Maria appears to St. Othmar) was painted in 1885 by Alois Süßmeier from Eichstätt in the Nazarene style . It is flanked by two wooden figures of St. Michael and St. George. Other wooden figures are a St. Katharina (from the beginning of the 16th century) and a Madonna on a cloud base (from the end of the 17th century). The cemetery is walled.

In 1670 the Teutonic Order priest and director of the Mergentheim seminary, Johann Caspar Venator, stated in a visit report: "[...] Ottmarsfelden, in the latter only a chapel, which was probably built."

The church belongs to the parish of Ellingen.

See also : “Ottmarsfeld” in the article List of Architectural Monuments in Höttingen

limes

The Raetian Limes passed south of Ottmarsfeld and left no traces in this area. The Ellinger Limesrundweg touches the Ottmarsfeld field chapel, which stands directly on the Limes route, which runs through the fields as a dam-like, elevated field path. At the intersection of the Limes with today's Ottmarsfeld-Oberndorf road, the Roman guard post 14/31 is suspected.

literature

• (Places with the ending) –feld. In: Collection sheet of the Historical Association Eichstätt. 46/47 (1931/32), p. 71.
• Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Franken series I issue 8: Gunzenhausen-Weissenburg. 1959, pp. 150, 249.
• Joseph Kreuzer: Churches in the parish of Ellingen. Ellingen, Kath. Stadtpfarramt, undated, p. 13.
• 800 years of the German Order. (Exhibition catalog of the GNM Nuremberg), 1990, p. 408.
• Hanns Lindner: House history of Ottmarsfeld. 2000.

Web links

• Photos of Ottmarsfeld under districts on hoettingen.de
• Church photo and description on pointoo.de
• Ottmarsfeld Chapel on the Limes circular route on alberter.com (PDF; 517 kB)

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. 731 .
2. ↑ 800 years of the German Order. P. 408