Ottweiler

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Ottweiler
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Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '  N , 7 ° 10'  E

Basic data
State : Saarland
County : Neunkirchen
Height : 268 m above sea level NHN
Area : 45.52 km 2
Residents: 14,285 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 314 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 66564
Primaries : 06824, 06858
License plate : NK
Community key : 10 0 43 115
LOCODE : DE OWE
City structure: 5 districts

City administration address : 		Illingerstr. 7
66564 Ottweiler
Website : www.ottweiler.de
Mayor : Holger Schäfer ( CDU )
Location of the city of Ottweiler in the Neunkirchen district
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The city of Ottweiler ( listen ? / I , in the local dialect Ottwiller , listen ? / I ) is the administrative seat of the Saarland district of Neunkirchen and is located about 32 km northeast of Saarbrücken . Audio file / audio sample Audio file / audio sample

geography

City structure

The city districts include Ottweiler, Fürth in the Ostertal , Lautenbach , Mainzweiler and Steinbach . The Neumünster district belongs to Ottweiler, the Wetschhausen district to Steinbach, and Remmesfürth belongs to Lautenbach.

history

The origin

Ottweiler's origins lie in the founding of the monastery in today's Neumünster district around 871 . The first written evidence of the place name Ottweiler comes from the year 1393. Ottweiler experienced its heyday from the 13th century under the rule of the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken . The high point of this development was the granting of city ​​rights by Emperor Charles V to Count Johann IV of Nassau-Saarbrücken in 1550.

Ottweiler Castle in the 17th century

The Counts of Nassau-Ottweiler

Ottweiler was from 1640 (division of the County of Nassau-Saarbrücken) to 1728 the seat of the Counts of Nassau-Ottweiler , a branch of the House of Nassau . In 1721 Nassau-Idstein was inherited and in 1723 Nassau-Saarbrücken. After the death of the last count, the county falls to the princes of Nassau-Usingen .

The Counts of Nassau-Ottweiler were:

Porcelain Manufactory Ottweiler

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Under the reign of the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken, a porcelain factory was founded in Ottweiler: In 1763 the first factory was built by Prince Wilhelm Heinrich . The porcelain produced there was characterized by a particularly clean white body, due to the relatively expensive Passau kaolin clay used.

After Prince Wilhelm Heinrich died in 1768, the company was reorganized under the government of his son, Prince Ludwig. In the context of savings measures, the use of Passau earths was dispensed with in the future, which was reflected in the new cream-colored appearance of the products. From 1769 the manufacture was run by frequently changing tenants. In 1776, the production of cheaper earthenware began, which suffered from the artistic level. In 1800 the factory finally ceased operations and the buildings were sold.

The products of this porcelain manufactory are now among the rarest porcelains in the world that are exhibited in various museums.

The recent story

Until the district reform of the Saarland, Ottweiler was the district town of the district of Ottweiler with the license plate OTW . As part of the reform of the circle were in on 1 January 1974 district Neunkirchen renamed and Neunkirchen the county seat; the seat of the district administration remained in Ottweiler. The district is currently trying to move the administration more and more to Neunkirchen .

On May 12, 2015, the Protestant parish of Ottweiler announced that the churches in Steinbach, Stennweiler and Hirzweiler-Welschbach as well as the church and the parish hall in Mainzweiler were to be de-dedicated because the number of parishioners had continuously decreased.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1974, the previously independent communities of Fürth, Lautenbach, Mainzweiler and Steinbach near Ottweiler were incorporated.

politics

Local election in Ottweiler 2019
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City council

The city ​​council with 33 seats is composed as follows after the local election on May 26, 2019 :Template: future / in 3 years

Political party Share of votes difference Seats difference
CDU 41.5% −5.1% 15th −2
SPD 32.2% −1.7% 11 −1
AfD 8.0% + 8.0% 2 +2
Green 7.4% + 2.7% 2 +1
left 5.9% + 0.6% 2 +1
FWG Ottweiler : 2.9% −1.2% 1 ± 0
WuSB 2.1% −1.5% 0 −1
Voter turnout: 67.2%

mayor

Mayor of the City of Ottweiler

  • Strektius, Christian (son) 1815
  • Leydorff, Philipp Christian 1816 -
  • Sprenger, Johann Peter January 4, 1822 to August 30, 1849
  • Weyl, Wilhelm August 3, 1849 to January 30, 1851
  • Klein, Richard February 25, 1851 to February 19, 1853
  • Bötticher, Johann August Wilhelm Leonhard February 19, 1853 to March 14, 1860
  • Wenzel from Thalfang (elected on May 1, 1860) - did not start work due to lack of confirmation (city council minutes of July 17, 1860)
  • David, ?????? (Signature of the city council minutes) April 7, 1860 (commissary) May 1, 1860 to July 6, 1860
  • Weiand, Nikolaus July 17, 1860 to August 13, 1872
  • Erdsieck, Karl November 8, 1872 to 1894
  • Zeitz, Heinrich November 10, 1894 to 1898
  • Schüle, Hugo 1898 to June 27, 1910 (on leave until the end of his term of office on February 21, 1911)
  • Herhaus, ??? elected on August 10, 1910 - election rejected
  • Blank, Ludwig September 2, 1910 to August 1, 1914
  • Dr. Ing.O. Eberbach (com. Mayor) September 18, 1914 to July 21, 1916
  • Lorenz, Georg (SPD) July 4, 1921 to November 4, 1931
  • Dr. Karl Löwer (SPD / NSDAP) February 1, 1932 to April 10, 1945
  • Pünnel, Leo (SPD) April 10, 1945 to July 31, 1945
  • Zender, Jakob (SPD) September 22, 1946 to June 5, 1956
  • Dr. Helmig, August (independent / DPS ) October 2, 1956 to October 1, 1966
  • Burger, Karl Heinz (SPD) October 3, 1966–1989
  • Rödle, Hans-Heinrich (SPD), 1990–2012
  • Schäfer, Holger (CDU), since 2012

Mayor Holger Schäfer was last confirmed in 2019 for ten years with 71.3 percent of the vote.Template: future / in 5 years

coat of arms

Ottweiler coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on July 8, 1975 by the Saarland Ministry of the Interior.

Blazon: "A silver rose in blue."

The colors of the parish are white - blue.

Historical representation

Blazon: “A silver heraldic rose in blue. Above the coat of arms a three-tower, red wall crown with a gate. "

The settlement near the castle of the same name (1393) was called a town as early as 1444, but the citizenship was not released until 1550. It was then that the first city seal was created after the year in the romanization. The picture shows a heraldic rose without a shield; one may like this like the rose z. B. in the jury seals of Koblenz since 1282 and in the jury seals for Saarbrücken and St. Johann as a court (judgment) symbol. In 1544, when Ottweiler was divided, it became its own county, and since 1574 the residence of the Nassau-Ottweiler line. After 1816 only the Prussian eagle was included in the seal. Around 1900, Kaiser Wilhelm II, as King of Prussia, awarded the coat of arms with a wall crown.

Twin cities

Ottweiler maintains partnerships with the French city of Saint Rémy / Burgundy and with the Greek city of Vrilissia , a north-eastern suburb of the Greek capital Athens .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Street

Ottweiler is at the intersection of federal highways 41 ( Saarbrücken - Ingelheim ) and 420 (Ottweiler - Nierstein ). Furthermore, Ottweiler is the starting point of the country roads 141, 128 and 124. The baroque street Saar-Palatinate is of touristic importance .

rail

Ottweiler train station; outbound regional express

The city is connected to the state capital Saarbrücken every half hour and to the Rhine-Main area via the Nahetalbahn railway line and Ottweiler (Saar) station. In the station, the Ostertalbahn branches off from the Nahe Valley Railway . This 21 km long, single-track branch line, on which passenger traffic was discontinued as early as 1980, runs through the Ostertal to today's terminus at Schwarzerden . Freight traffic to the Saar industrial works (IWS) in Schwarzerden was only stopped at the end of 2001 as part of MORA C. This line, maintained by Deutsche Bahn , has been the longest private siding in Germany to date. Today the Ostertalbahn is mainly used for museum railroad trips. In the summer months, the trains of the museum railway through the Ostertal to Schwarzerden in the St. Wendel district begin here .

Local businesses

The headquarters of the construction company OBG is located in Ottweiler .

Authorities

Management of the district

District Office - formerly a princely Nassau widow's palace, in the core 1758/59 by FJ Stengel

As the former district town of the Ottweiler district , the city is still home to most of the district authorities.

Correctional facility

The Ottweiler correctional facility is located north of the city on the Ziegelberg . The prison , built in a pavilion style, was moved into after its completion in March 1970. On an area of ​​around 10.5 hectares , it offers the possibility of accommodating up to 220 male and 16 female prisoners. The facility consists of five detention houses, the administration building, a school building, the gymnasium and the kitchen pavilion.

In addition, adult male prisoners are quartered in a separate wing because the Saarbrücken correctional facility is overcrowded. The majority of the young people in prison have become suspicious of drug crime or drug abuse.

dishes

District Court

Ottweiler is the seat of a district court that belongs to the regional and higher regional court district of Saarbrücken .

Culture and sights

former brewery
Stengel pavilion and baroque rose garden

Museums

School museum

Ottweiler is the seat of the Saarland School Museum . The Saarland School Museum Foundation with legal capacity was established on December 2, 1991. The Saarland School Museum in Ottweiler offers exhibits from 1000 years of school history on several floors.

Ottweiler also houses the city museum with the Ottweiler book printing workshop and an insect museum. The museum pharmacy is also worth seeing. There is a local history museum in the Steinbach district and a mill museum in the Fürth district.

Buildings

  • The Hesse House, built around 1590

  • Remains of the city wall from the 15th century

  • Rathausplatz, in the background the "Old Tower"

  • "Old Town Hall", built around 1717

The old town of Ottweiler has retained its medieval urban structure in a small area. Numerous buildings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods have been preserved. One of the buildings worth seeing from the Renaissance is the Hesse House , which was built around 1590 as the seat of the count's administration. It is named after an Ottweiler businessman.

In the northern part of the old town there are remains of the old ring-shaped city ​​fortifications from the 15th century.

An idyllic architectural ensemble can be found in the area of Tenschstrasse . There used to be a pond there, as can be seen from the name of the street Im Alten Weiher , which branches off from Tenschstrasse. In the Middle Ages, the word "Tensch" stood for a "path over a pond dam".

Not far from this ensemble is the “Old Tower”, which was built in 1410 as a keep . Today the tower serves as the bell tower of the Protestant church of Ottweiler, which was originally built as a chapel and converted into a church by Friedrich Joachim Stengel around 1756 .

A passage leads from the square in front of the “Old Tower” to the Rathausplatz . There are numerous gabled houses, some of which are half- timbered, and the “Old Town Hall”, built around 1717, with half-timbering and roof turrets . An inner courtyard on Rathausplatz is named after the painter Johann Heinrich Schmidt , who was born in Ottweiler , known as Fornaro (1757–1828).

In Wilhelm-Heinrich-Straße is the Catholic parish church of the Nativity of Mary , built from 1832 to 1834 , a classicistic , rectangular hall church to which Ernst Brand added a choir around 1898 . Also on Wilhelm-Heinrich-Strasse is the Witwenpalais, a baroque sandstone palace built in 1759 that Friedrich Joachim Stengel had built as a widow's residence for his wife Sophie Erdmuthe on behalf of Prince Wilhelm Heinrich von Nassau-Saarbrücken.

In place of the ruined palace , Friedrich Joachim Stengel built a baroque hunting and pleasure palace, the so-called Stengel Pavilion, for Prince Wilhelm Heinrich around 1758 .

schools

Ottweiler grammar school
Elementary school Ottweiler Neumünster

high school

The Ottweiler grammar school has an eventful history. First founded in 1922 as a denominational school, it was closed for 9 years in 1948. The school has existed in its current form since 1971. In 1992, the Neunkirchen district took over the sponsorship of the school.

State Academy for Music and Cultural Education

The training and further education facility of the musical and cultural associations received an extension in 2002. With the elliptical new building and a spacious entrance and spectator area, the academy received a modern multifunctional complex. The mobile partition wall enables trial operations and performances on a total usable area of ​​570 m². The occupancy rate of the house is determined by the high occupancy rates during the holidays and on the weekends. On an annual average, the state academy accommodates around 5,000 overnight guests and over 10,000 conference guests.

The focus is on the training of young people and the training of multipliers who work in the associations as ensemble leaders and managers. The 15 member associations hold their own workshops and seminars, especially on weekends and during the holidays. In addition, the State Academy for Music and Cultural Education offers cross-association measures. These include a two-year further education for teachers in the field of elementary music education, music mentor training for schoolchildren or the project “Alliance for Singing with Children”.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Connected to the city

  • Anna Maria zu Solms-Sonnewalde (born January 24, 1585 - † November 20, 1634), Countess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, died in Ottweiler
  • Friedrich Joachim Stengel (born September 29, 1694 - † January 10, 1787), master builder in the Baroque era, built the widow's palace in Ottweiler
  • Johann Anton Joseph Hansen (born January 10, 1801 - † May 3, 1875), Catholic pastor in Ottweiler, member of the Berlin National Assembly (1848/49), founder of the St. Barbara Arch Brotherhood (1857)
  • György Kàroly László Lehoczky (born August 30, 1901 - January 16, 1979), architect and church window painter
  • Käthe Popall (born February 15, 1907 - † May 23, 1984), Bremen politician of the KPD and the first female member of the Bremen Senate
  • Otto Adam (born November 24, 1909, † December 2, 1977 in Ottweiler), fencer and sports official
  • Hans Puls (born November 20, 1914; † February 21, 1992), musicologist, philosophy and language teacher and hymn composer
  • Josef Jochem (born March 24, 1922 - June 20, 2000), educator, politician (CDU), was a school councilor in Ottweiler
  • Wilhelm Ertz (born January 30, 1923 - † June 18, 2017), general practitioner, has been the recipient of the Paracelsus Medal since 2006
  • Otto Knefler (born September 5, 1923 - † October 30, 1986), football coach and player
  • Markus Werkle-Bergner (* 1976), psychologist in the field of developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, went to school in Ottweiler

literature

  • Martin Klewitz: City of Ottweiler ( Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 347). Neuss 1989
  • Saar Research Association (Hrsg.): The art monuments of the Ottweiler and Saarlouis districts, edited by Walter Zimmermann. 2nd, unchanged edition from 1934, Saarbrücken 1976.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2019 (PDF; 20 kB) ( help ).
  2. ↑ 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. 805 f .
  3. ↑ SRonline.de: In Ottweiler, four churches are being de-dedicated ( Memento from July 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Municipal elections 2019 - 43115 - Ottweiler. State Returning Officer Saarland, May 26, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Data (up to 1989) determined from Hansen's parish chronicle and the existing city council minutes as well as from Romeyk, Horst, The leading state and municipal administrators of the Rhine province 1816–1945 (= publications by the Society for Rhenish History LXIX), Düsseldorf 1994.
  6. ↑ Schäfer remains mayor in Ottweiler. Saarländischer Rundfunk, May 26, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Eckart Roloff and Karin Henke-Wendt: Antique pharmacy in Art Nouveau. (Alte Apotheke, Ottweiler) In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. Volume 2, Southern Germany. Verlag S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 221–222, ISBN 978-3-7776-2511-9
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g Articles worth seeing in the website of the city of Ottweiler, accessed on May 23, 2012
  9. ↑ About us Information in the website of the State Academy for Music and Cultural Education, accessed on May 23, 2012
  10. ↑ a b c An innovative center for cultural education . On: http://www.nmz.de , / Edition: February 2007. Retrieved on May 23, 2012
  11. ↑ Chronicle Information in the website of the State Academy for Music and Cultural Education, accessed on May 23, 2012
  12. ^ Johann Heinrich Schmidt called Fornaro
  13. ↑ Catharina Haaß at MUGI

Web links

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