Ottrau

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Ottrau
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Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '  N , 9 ° 23'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : kassel
County : Schwalm-Eder district
Height : 378 m above sea level NHN
Area : 48.49 km 2
Residents: 2128 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 44 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 34633
Primaries : 06639, 06628
License plate : HR, FZ, MEG, ZIG
Community key : 06 6 34 020
LOCODE : DE OT5
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Neukirchener Strasse 1
34633 Ottrau
Website : www.ottrau.de
Mayor : Norbert Mitlz (independent)
Location of the Ottrau community in the Schwalm-Eder district
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Ottrau is a municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district in Hesse ( Germany ).

geography

Geographical location

Ottrau is the southernmost municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district. It is located in the southern foothills of the Knüllgebirge about ten kilometers northeast of Alsfeld . It is traversed by the southern Grenff tributary Otter .

Neighboring communities

Ottrau borders in the north on the city of Neukirchen , in the northeast on the municipality Oberaula , in the southeast on the municipality Breitenbach am Herzberg ( district Hersfeld-Rotenburg ), in the south on the city Alsfeld ( Vogelsbergkreis ), and in the west on the municipality Schrecksbach (Schwalm -Eder circle).

structure

The municipality of Ottrau is made up of six districts:

history

First mention and name

In the year 775, Ottrau is mentioned for the first time in the document with which the Hersfeld monastery was raised to the status of an imperial monastery. In the following centuries it is documented as "Ottraha" for 782 (in a forgery from the 11th century), "Otraho" in the 9th century, "Otheraba" 1057, "Ottra" 1232 and "Ottrauw" around 1660.

church

An "aecclesia" is documented in 1057. The original patronage of the church is unknown. In the middle of the 13th century, the central function that had previously been assigned to the Ottrau church for the surrounding area, moved to Neukirchen . With the Reformation a new parish is established, the area of ​​which coincides with that of the Ottrau court . The parish was first mentioned in 1535, and in 1569 Görzhain and Berfa were incorporated as branches. In 1607 the change to the Reformed Confession takes place. In 1747, in addition to Berfa, Kleinropperhausen is parish off to Ottrau; in 1837, in exchange for Berfa, Görzhain, which has been known as a parish since at least 1585, is parish off to Ottrau. Today Ottrau belongs together with Görzhain and Immichenhain to the evangelical church district Ziegenhain in the evangelical church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

Population development

The oldest population census records 45 house seats for 1585 . In 1750 63 houses with 350 inhabitants are occupied. In 1861 Ottrau had 488 Evangelical Reformed residents, 7 sects were counted, and 32 Jews . In 1961 Ottrau had 733 Protestant and 23 Roman Catholic residents.

Community development

Ottrau belonged to Hessengau in the 9th century , has been a court of Ottrau since 1343 and from 1585 with the Ottrau court belonged to the Neukirchen district , from 1807 to 1813 to the canton Oberaula , from 1814 to 1821 to the Neukirchen district, from 1821 to 1848 and from 1851 to 1973 to the district of Ziegenhain . The settlement of Bahnhof Ottrau, which emerged from a train station in 1907, is located about 2 km to the northeast on the boundary of the core municipality, but is not an independent district.

On April 1, 1972, the large community Ottrau was formed as part of the Hessian regional reform through the merger of the six previously independent communities Ottrau, Görzhain, Immichenhain, Kleinropperhausen, Schorbach and Weißenborn. Ottrau has been part of the Schwalm-Eder district since January 1st, 1974.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016
    
A total of 15 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 28.3 4th 37.0 6th 30.2 4th 35.9 5
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 27.4 4th 27.3 4th 40.7 6th 40.3 6th
UWG Independent voter community 22.2 4th 15.4 2 10.4 2 9.7 2
FWG Free community of voters 22.1 3 20.3 3 18.7 3 14.2 2
total 100.0 15th 100.0 15th 100.0 15th 100.0 15th
Voter turnout in% 66.9 83.9 69.6 77.4

mayor

Norbert Militz was elected in 2011. His predecessor was Heinz Grein. Before that, Georg Keil was the incumbent.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on September 9, 1981 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Coat of arms of Ottrau
 Blazon : "Under a black shield head with four gold stars in the silver field a black otter above a blue wave bar."
Justification of the coat of arms: Based on the name of the municipality, an otter was chosen as the heraldic animal, the historical affiliation to the old county of Ziegenhain is indicated by the shield head, which - with the increase to four stars - is taken from the coat of arms of the county of Ziegenhain.

The design of the coat of arms was in the hands of the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

Community partnerships

The municipality of Ottrau maintains a partnership with the Hungarian Drávafok .

Buildings

The Protestant church presumably stands on the site of a building that can be assumed before the year 800 , of which no traces are known. A church built around 1200 was damaged and rebuilt in the Thirty Years' War . A choir , which is five-sided on the outside but closed on the inside, is followed by a halved nave , the older, eastern part of which was built in the 13th century, the newer, western part in the 15th and 17th centuries. The choir and eastern part of the nave were formerly arched; the keystones are walled up as spolia in the west and north facade. The current flat ceiling dates from the second half of the 17th century. The church is located in an almost completely walled churchyard.

To the north of the church, the late medieval stone house called "Old Castle", which today belongs to a farm (Burggasse 12), is another testimony to Ottrau's centuries-old history.

Personalities

literature

  • Dehio-Handbuch, Hessen I, Berlin / Munich, 2008, pp. 739-740.
  • Fritz Volze: Ottrau. A church center in the Middle Ages , in: Yearbook of the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis , Volume 11, 1985, pp. 61-64.
  • Wilhelm Wagner: History of Ottrau and Kleinropperhausen , Ottrau 1914, new edition, Verlag Waldemar Stumpf, 1984
  • 1200 years of Ottrau , Plag-Druck, Schwalmstadt, 1982
  • Bernd Jäckel: Ortssippenbuch of the community Ottrau 1830–1934 , undated

Web links

Commons : Ottrau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ^ Hessian community encyclopedia : Ottrau
  3. ^ "Ottrau, Schwalm-Eder district". Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of April 17, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 3, 2014 .
  4. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 412 .
  5. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  6. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  7. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  8. ↑ http://www.statistik-hessen.de/themenwahl/wahlen/daten/direktwahlen/ottrau/index.html