Ostelsheim

The community Ostelsheim located on the eastern end of the district Calw in hedges and Schlehengäu. Nestled in a valley, it is located approximately ten miles from Calw and three kilometers from Because of the city.

• 3.1 municipal

• 4.1 traffic
• 4.2 Water supply

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical location

Ostelsheim lies at the extreme edge of the Black Forest. Protected from bad weather, it is surrounded by hills and forests. Typical of the landscape around the town are still largely preserved in their original appearance parts of the landscape with its numerous rear belts, stone bars and sheep pastures. About a quarter of the 923 -acre mountian area consists of forest.

Neighboring communities

At Ostelsheim borders the municipalities Althengstett, Simmozheim, Weil der Stadt, Grafenau and Gechingen.

Community structure

The municipality includes the village Ostelsheim Ostelsheim and the place sawmill.

History

The place is a founding Alemannic probably dating from the 4th century after Christ. In 1357 the city came together with Böblingen to the County of Württemberg. As part of the country Württemberg-Hohenzollern the place came in 1952 to the newly founded state of Baden- Württemberg. The community Ostelsheim retained even after the 1975 local government reform their independence.

Policy

Parish council

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following distribution of seats:

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Through the municipality runs without trunk road, however, is the national road 295 (Stuttgart - Calw ) three kilometers north of Ostelsheim at Simmozheim. The nearest motorway junction is Böblingen, near Stuttgart at the federal highway 81, about twelve kilometers south-east.

Ostelsheim is located on the Württemberg Black Forest Railway, which comes from Stuttgart via Weil der Stadt in the community and then weiterverläuft to Calw. The community, however, was disconnected due to the closure of the section between Weil der Stadt Calw and to freight in 1988 final of rail network after the section has been shut down in 1983 in passenger transport. The nearest railway station is now about three miles away in Weil der Stadt. From there, buses run regularly on Ostelsheim to Calw. The district is currently planning however, the reactivation of the railway line under the name Hermann -Hesse -Bahn, the downside of this loop is to be abbreviated to the located at Schafhausen Hackenberg by a mining techniques to be built tunnel, the so-called " Ostelsheimer curve".

Water supply

The community Ostelsheim with drinking-water from the purpose association Schwarzwald water supply, which has belonged since 1976. Since 1972, there was a water supply agreement with the purpose of dressing.

Christian religions

Ostelsheim is dominated Protestant since the Reformation. The evangelical church has its home in the centrally located village church, the rectory and parish hall are located in the immediate vicinity. Seen Catholic Ostelsheim belongs to the parish of St. Leonhard Dätzingen, the church maintains Ostelsheim in a village hall.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Gottlieb Wilhelm Hoffmann (1771-1846), notary and Mayor, founder of the two brothers Württemberg communities in Korntal and Wilhelm village