Oberotterbach
Oberotterbach is a municipality in the Southern Wine Route in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Bad Bergzabern. Oberotterbach is a nationally recognized tourist.
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Geography
The wine is between the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest and the Rhine.
To Oberotterbach includes the residential places Brendel mill and Heidenbrunnenhof.
History
992 was the place in a deed of Emperor Otto III. mentioned at the monastery Selz in Alsace for the first time.
Religion
In 2007, 55.6 percent of the population Protestant and 25.4 percent Catholic. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Oberotterbach consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: "Divided and divided up, topped with a silver heart plate, in a rotbewehrter and bezungter goldbekrönter blue lion, top right in black a rotbewehrter, bezungter and crowned golden lion, riveted top left of silver and blue, down in green with a silver oblique wave beams, beseitet of each of a silver bullet ".
It was founded in 1938 approved by the Bavarian imperial governor and goes back to a seal from the year 1558th
Culture and sights
Structures
- Ruins of castle in Guttenberg Mundatwald; Lookout tower Stäffelsbergturm (1887 )
- West Wall Trail - is since June 2009, here a ten- kilometer path along the blown-up bunkers, trenches and positions.
Traffic
Oberotterbach is connected via the bus line 543 ( Bad Bergzabern - Wissembourg) to the public transport network. Nearest railway stations are Bad Bergzabern and Wissembourg.
Sports
Oberotterbach is characterized mainly by football. The sports club Oberotterbach 1950 eV is a men's team, old boys club, A Youth, D- youth, as well as an F- youth team. Other sporting activities in Oberotterbach include table tennis, tennis, aerobics, gymnastics and sports model.
Personalities
- Home of Peter Manuel (scientists )