Otterbach

Otterbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland -Palatinate and the administrative seat of the homonymous municipality, which it also belongs, and reported as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 community partnerships
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 Museums
  • 4.3 associations
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 authorities
  • 5.3 educational institutions
  • 5.4 AFN stations
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 6.2 People who have worked on site

Geography

Geographical location

Otterbach lies north- west of Kaiserslautern at the mouth of Otterbachs in the volume.

The municipality consists of the two districts Otterbach and Sambach. The hamlet Otterbach includes the residential places Falltal and Sambacher brick hut.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities, the local church Katzweiler in the northwest, the city of Otter mountain in the northeast and the county-level city Kaiserslautern with the districts of Erlenbach, Morlautern, Wiesenthalerhof and Erfenbach in the south.

History

South of the village was located on the Schlossberg the missing Sterrenberg castle.

On June 7, 1969, until then independent municipality Sambach was incorporated into Otterbach.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Otterbach consists of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman location.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

The blazon is: " A blue shield with a silver wave beams divided. Above, a silver otter with a similarly colored fish in its mouth. Below a golden squirrel a golden acorn in the front paws holding ".

The coat of arms is a combination of the two old coat of arms of municipalities of Sambach and Otterbach. The otter is the namesake of the place Otterbach, more specifically for the Bach " Otterbach ". The squirrel is the heraldic animal of the abbey in neighboring Otter Berg, who owned a mill in Sambach. The silver wave band represents the Otterbach. The colors blue and silver recall the earlier rule of the Counts von der Leyen.

Community partnerships

It was established in 1991 twinned with the Thuringian municipality Mihla.

Culture and sights

Structures

Featured buildings are the Catholic Church of the Assumption and the Protestant Christ Church. Other notable buildings also lists the list of cultural monuments in Otterbach.

Museums

The Motorcycle Museum is housed in the old, built in 1847, Evangelical Church in Otterbach since about 1980. Before that, the church was 5 years not in use. At the railway crossing direction Erfenbach there is a signal box museum, which displays the month historic railway technology on every first and third Sunday.

Clubs

The Zen Bogyo Thu eV operates the Jiu -Jitsu National Training Centre of the German Federal Jiu Jitsu. Members of the community is the strongest club TuS Otterbach eV with FC Phoenix Otterbach home to the community and the football champions of the county league Kaiserslautern in 2007. Singers The Hobby eV are a male voice choir and a mixed choir ( "hobby Swingers " ), with approximately 700 members. With the Musikverein Otterbach there is a West Palatine Concert Band. The SV Sambach 1961 eV is the football club in the district Sambach, with the first LBC / Otterbach, an association for the boule and Pétanquesport there is a team whose first team plays in the Bundesliga. Another club is the Reservist Otterbach eV

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

In Lampertsmühle - Otterbach station the Lauter Valley Railway, which runs between Kaiserslautern and Lauterecken - Grumbach holds. The tracks of the Lauterbrunnen Valley Railway are parallel ( called in the district of Otterbach " Lauterstraße " ) for federal highway 270. From 1991-1980 branched from the station a random route to Otter mountain and 1912-1996 from the brook course after Weilerbach or Reichenbach.

Authorities

  • As the seat of the municipality Otterbach Otterbach houses the administration, has its own town hall and a tourist center.

Educational institutions

Pre-school educational institutions are the Protestant kindergarten daycare and the Catholic daycare " Noah's Ark". The only local school is the Goethe School, a pure primary school.

AFN - transmitters

South of Sambach is located at 49 ° 29 ' N, 7 ° 43' O49.4908333333337.7175 the medium wave transmitter of the AFN for the Greater Kaiserslautern, operating on the frequency 1107 kHz with 10 kW output power. He used as a transmitting antenna a 136 meters high, insulated against ground, guyed lattice steel mast, which was built in 1951.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Anton Hoefle (1882-1925), politician ( center )
  • Nauerz Theodor (1909-2007), an important cleric, persecuted by the Nazi regime
  • Marshal Hans (1913-1986), nuclear physicist
  • Heinz Luthringshauser (1931-1997), motorcycle racer

Those who worked on site

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