Ottersweier

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′  N , 8 ° 7 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Rastatt
Height :	137 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.22 km 2
Residents:	6340 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	217 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	77833
Area code :	07223
License plate :	RA, bra
Community key :	08 2 16 041
Address of the municipal administration:	Laufer Strasse 18 77833 Ottersweier
Website :	www.ottersweier.de
Mayor :	Jürgen Pfetzer ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Ottersweier in the Rastatt district

Ottersweier is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg and belongs to the Rastatt district .

geography

location

Ottersweier is located in the Upper Rhine Plain between the Black Forest and the Rhine , 2.5 km south of Bühl . The Waldhägenich nature reserve lies in part on the district .

Community structure

The municipality of Ottersweier consists of the districts Hauptort Ottersweier and Unzhurst . The two districts also form residential districts within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code .

The main town of Ottersweier includes the villages of Ottersweier and Hatzenweier, the hamlets of Münchhof, Walzfeld and Weier, the Zinken Aschenplatz, Eckgraben, Haft and Hard, the towns of Aspichhof, Weier, Hub and Hundseck and the house of Stiti. The Unzhurst district includes the villages of Unzhurst, Oberwasser and Zell and the hamlet of Breithurst. The desert areas of Niedernhofen, Rod, Sedenhofen, Wolfenweiler and Wolfsbühl are in the area of ​​the main town of Ottersweier . The Ellenfürst desert is located in the Unzhurst district .

history

From the 18th century

In 1774 the Margravine widow Maria Viktoria Pauline von Arenberg moved her residence from Baden-Baden to Ottersweier in order to set up a monastery school for Augustinian women choirs in the former residence of the Jesuits . In the convent school, young girls learned skills that they would need as future mothers and teachers .

Ottersweier belonged to the Bühl district for a long time and came to the Rastatt district after its dissolution in 1973 .

Incorporations

The municipality includes the district areas of the formerly independent municipalities of Ottersweier (with the Zinken Hub, Haft, Hard, Walzfeld and Oberhatzenweier), Hatzenweier (Unterhatzenweier), Unzhurst (with the staff municipality of Breithurst), Oberwasser and Zell. In 1936 the municipality of Hatzenweier was annexed to Ottersweier without a municipal council resolution or a referendum, dictated by the then Gauleiter. The same happened with the communities of Oberwasser and Zell; they merged into Unzhurst parish. In the wake of the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg , Unzhurst decided to become part of the Ottersweier community, which took place on January 1, 1972.

Hatzenweier	Unzhurst	Upper water	Cell

Catholic parish church of St. Johannes with rectory

Religions

In the course of the 16th century, the margraviate of Baden-Baden had already changed religious beliefs seven times under the princely law in force at the time. In 1622 the strictly Catholic Margrave Wilhelm von Baden came to power, who in turn made use of his rights and returned his hereditary land to the Catholic Church, for the eighth time - Ottersweier has been Catholic since then. Furthermore, there is a regional church and a free evangelical community (Arche Ottersweier) in the village.

politics

Administrative community

The community is a member of the agreed administrative community of the city of Bühl .

Municipal council

In addition to the chairman and mayor, the municipal council has 20 members (including 2 compensation mandates). The local elections on May 26, 2019 brought the following result with a voter turnout of 64.08%:

Party / list	Share of votes	+/-% p	Seats	+/-
CDU	39.48%	- 10.43	8th	- 1
FWG	32.53%	+ 2.94	6th	± 0
Green	18.86%	+ 11.27	4th	+ 3
SPD	9.13%	- 3.78	2	± 0

mayor

• 1920–1933: Bernhard Lorenz
• 1933–1945: Johann Scheer ( NSDAP )
• 1945–1946: Bernhard Lorenz (acting)
• 1983–1999: Werner Kunz
• since 1999: Jürgen Pfetzer (CDU)

coat of arms

Blazon: In a red shield on a black three-mountain (from Schwarzenberg) a golden ciborium (cup, symbol of the parish) accompanied by two silver stars.

Partnerships

Ottersweier maintains good partnership relations with Westerlo in Belgian Flanders since 1962 and with Krauschwitz in Saxony in Upper Lusatia since 1989. The partnership with Krauschwitz resulted from the then same zip code 7583.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Although the Rheintalbahn crosses Ottersweier, the station, although it is a Deutsche Bahn station , has no platforms and is not used for passenger traffic. At the Ottersweier station, the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn ( Stadtbahn ) line changes in the direction of Bühl (Baden), and these are run as empty runs.

Ottersweier is connected to the national road network by federal highway 3 ; The old federal road 3 runs through the village. The bus routes 262, 264, 265, 266, 269 and 7135 connect Ottersweier with the train stations Offenburg , Achern and Bühl (Baden) in public transport .

Companies

Ottersweier belongs to the Central Baden economic region (WRM) and is a location for many medium-sized companies from industry and commerce. Ottersweier is, among other things, the headquarters of B + K Offsetdruck GmbH, Braun Sondermaschinen GmbH, Eckerle Group , PEKA Pflaster- Erd- u. Kabelbau GmbH and the Schwarzwälder Edelputzwerk GmbH. In order to improve the presentation and implementation of the interests of the local companies, the Ottersweier Handel & Handwerk e. V. founded. It now includes over 70 companies.

According to the State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg, around 4,500 people were employed in the companies in Ottersweier in 2013.

education

In Ottersweier there is the Maria Victoria School, a primary and secondary school with a Werkrealschule and another primary school in the Unzhurst district. With the Moosland School there is also a special school with vocational school level and BVE. There are also four kindergartens in town.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1843, Ludolf Vogler , parish rector
• 1891, Alexander von Leonhard , Russian councilor
• 1929, Barbara Maretschek , farmer and founder of the St. Antonius Chapel
• 1932, Otto Sickinger , teacher and co-founder of the fire brigade band
• 1948, Joseph Sauer (1872–1949), theologian and church historian
• 1956, Richard Weber, parish priest
• 1980, Adalbert Metzinger (1910–1984), Benedictine, abbot of Weingarten Monastery
• 1981, Franz Oswald, parish priest
• 2002, Bernhard Friedmann (* 1932), President of the European Court of Auditors

sons and daughters of the town

• Joseph Sauer (1872–1949) born in the district of Unzhurst, theologian, Christian archaeologist and art historian
• Bernhard Lorenz (1889–1969), Mayor of Ottersweier
• Bernhard Friedmann (* 1932), politician ( CDU ), Member of the Bundestag , President of the European Court of Auditors
• Ursula Dethleffs (1933–1994), artist

Connected to the city

• Heinrich Dersch (1889–1967), painter, lived in Ottersweier from 1958 until his death.

literature

• Arnold, Claus, Catholicism as a cultural power. The Freiburg theologian Joseph Sauer (1872–1949) and the legacy of Franz Xaver Kraus, Paderborn / Munich 1999 '
• Ulrich Coenen: The architecture of the northern Ortenau. Monuments in Bühl, Bühlertal, Ottersweier, Lichtenau, Rheinmünster and Sinzheim. Karlsruhe 1993.
• Ulrich Coenen: About the choir's measure and justice - the influence of the late Gothic work master books on the expansion of choir tower churches in Ortenau using the example of the parish church of St. John the Baptist in Ottersweier. In: The Ortenau. Publications of the historical association for Mittelbaden 79 (1999), pages 372-411.
• Ulrich Coenen: The late Gothic pilgrimage church Maria Linden in Ottersweier and its proportions - the influence of the work master books on the design of the church. In: Heimatbuch 2000, Landkreis Rastatt. 39th year (2000), pages 45-61.
• Maria Koerfer: Local family book of the Catholic parish of St. Johannes d. T. Ottersweier 1641–1940, with Neusatz, Waldmatt, Breithurst, Niederhofen and Aspich until 1783 . 2 volumes. Ottersweier: Bernhard Friedmann Foundation 2009 (= Badische Ortssippenbücher 138)

Web links

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

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Ottersweier of July 24, 2000, last changed on December 3, 2001 ( Memento of the original of October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 26 kB) 
3. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume V: Karlsruhe District Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 . Pp. 153-155
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. 493 .
5. ↑ Municipality of Ottersweier: seat of municipal and economic institutions. Retrieved June 2, 2014 . 
6. ^ Ottersweier community: Trade & Crafts Ottersweier. Retrieved June 2, 2014 . 
7. ↑ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Employees subject to social insurance contributions and commuters across the municipality. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 2, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.