Otto wind

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Otto wind
municipality Meeder
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 13 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 55 ″  E
Height : 436 m above sea level NN
Residents : 282  (2004)
Incorporation : July 1, 1975
Postal code : 96484
Area code : 09566
Image by Ottowind

Ottowind is a district of the municipality of Meeder in the Coburg district in Upper Franconia .

geography

The cluster village is about 12 kilometers northwest of Coburg on a slightly sloping southern slope of the Long Mountains . The Grundgraben belongs to the Rodach river system and flows past the southern edge of the village. The district road CO 4 from Bad Rodach to Weidach leads through the village and the district road CO 18 heading south to Sülzfeld begins in Ottowind.

history

A burial mound from the Bronze Age between Ottowind and Ahlstadt gives an indication of an early settlement of the Long Mountains. The place probably goes back to a settlement of Wends in the 8th / 9th centuries. Century. The first documentary mention as "Atenwind" comes from the year 1116. Like the neighboring village of Oettingshausen three kilometers away , Ottowind is named after its founder or liege , a Franconian with the name Otto. One church is documented for the year 1528. For centuries, Ottowind was a subsidiary of Oettingshausen. At the beginning of the 14th century, Ottowind was under the control of the Henneberger . In 1353 the place with the Coburg Land came by inheritance to the Wettins and was thus part of the Electorate of Saxony from 1485 , from which the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg later emerged. In 1837 234 people lived in the village.

In a referendum on November 30, 1919, 20 Ottowinder citizens voted for the Free State of Coburg to join the Thuringian state and 30 against. On July 1, 1920, the Free State of Coburg was united with the Free State of Bavaria . In the first half of the 20th century there was a school in the church village, which was built in 1901 and which pupils from Mirsdorf also attended.

In 1950 the community had an area of ​​950 hectares . 354 residents lived in 50 residential buildings.

During the regional reform in Bavaria , Ottowind became a part of the municipality of Meeder on July 1, 1975. In 1987 the village consisted of 249 residents and 61 houses.

Population development

year population
1837 234
1910 253
1933 261
1939 234
1950 354
1970 282
2004 282
Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Bartholomew

church

The Evangelical Lutheran Baroque Church of St. Bartholomew was a fortified complex with its churchyard. In the distinctive church tower with its octagonal, slate-covered tail dome, ashlars with stonemason marks from around 1300 are processed. A bell on the tower with a picture of St. Bartholomew dates from 1601. The nave was built in 1767 in its current form.

Web links

Commons : Ottowind  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Müller's Large German Local Book 2007. Verlag de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-00-042206-5 .
  2. ^ A b Richard Teufel : Architectural and art monuments in the district of Coburg . E. Riemann'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Coburg 1956, p. 116
  3. ↑ Horst GRASSMUCK: Place names of the county Coburg. Inaugural dissertation from the University of Erlangen 1955, p. 52
  4. ↑ Michael Höchstädter: Otto wind . In: Eckhart Kollmer (ed.): Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region . Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission Erlangen, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X , p. 111
  5. ↑ a b Address manual of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha: 1837, p. 83
  6. ^ Coburger Zeitung, issue no.280 from December 1, 1919
  7. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB  453660975 , Section II, Sp. 903 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 679 f .
  9. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 299 ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  11. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Coburg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).