Ottrau
Ottrau is a community in the Schwalm -Eder district in Hesse, Germany.
- 2.1 First mention and names
- 2.2 Church
- 2.3 Population development
- 2.4 Community Development
- 3.1 Municipal Council
- 3.2 Town twinning
- 3.3 Structures
- 4.1 freeman
Geography
Geographical location
Ottrau is the southernmost municipality of the Schwalm -Eder -Kreis. It is located about 10 km northeast of Alsfeld in the southern foothills of the crumpled mountains. Bathed it is from the southern Grenff inflow Otter.
Neighboring communities
Ottrau bordered to the north by the town of Neukirchen, on the northeast by the municipality of upper auditorium, on the southeast by the municipality of Breitenbach am Herzberg (Landkreis Hersfeld -Rotenburg ), to the south by the city of Alsfeld ( Vogelsberg ), and in the west on the community of Schrecksbach ( Schwalm -Eder -Kreis).
Structure
The community is made up of Ottrau seven districts:
- Ottrau: 730 inhabitants
- Immichenhain: 605 inhabitants
- Weissenborn: 377 inhabitants
- Görzhain: 374 inhabitants
- Schorbach: 348 inhabitants
- Kleinropperhausen: 64 inhabitants
- Station Ottrau: 31 inhabitants
History
First mention and names
In the year 775 Ottrau first mentioned in that document, with the Hersfeld Abbey is collected at the Empire monastery. In the following centuries, it is called " Ottraha " for 782 ( in a forgery dating from the 11th century), " Otraho " in the 9th century, " Otheraba " 1057 " Ottra " 1232 and " Ottrauw " occupied in 1660.
Church
A " aecclesia " is occupied in the year 1057. The original patron saint of the church is unknown. In the middle of the 13th century changed the central function that was previously approached the Ottrauer church for the environment, to Neukirchen. With the Reformation, a new parish is established, the territory of which coincides with that of the Court Ottrau. The parish was first mentioned in 1535, 1569 and Görzhain Berfa be eingepfarrt as branches. 1607 is the change to the Reformed confession. 1747 is the parish next to Berfa also Kleinropperhausen after Ottrau, 1837, the least since 1585, known as Pfarrerei Görzhain eingepfarrt after Ottrau in exchange for Berfa. Today Ottrau belongs together with Görzhain and Immichenhain to the Protestant church circle goats grove in the Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate - Waldeck.
Population Development
The oldest inhabitant count on supplies for 1585 45 Hausgesesse. 1750 are covered with 350 inhabitants 63 houses. 1861 counted Ottrau 488 Evangelical Protestant inhabitants, 7 different sects and 32 Jews. 1961 counted Ottrau 733 Protestant and 23 Roman Catholic population.
Community Development
Ottrau belonged in the 9th century to Hessengau, since 1343 occupied as a court Ottrau and belonged from 1585 to the court Ottrau to the Official Neukirchen, from 1807 to 1813 to the canton of Aula, 1814-1821 to the Official Neukirchen, from 1821 to 1848 and from 1851-1973 to the district goats grove.
On April 1, 1972, the United Ottrau community was formed as part of the municipal reform in Hesse by the merger of six formerly independent communities Ottrau, Görzhain, Immichenhain, Kleinropperhausen, Schorbach and Weissenborn. Since January 1, 1974 Ottrau the Schwalm- Eder district belongs.
Policy
Municipal council
Twinning
The community Ottrau maintains a partnership with the Hungarian city Drávafok.
Structures
The evangelical church is probably at a point to be adopted before the year 800 building from which there are no known tracks. One written in 1200, the church was damaged during the Thirty Years War and changed up. Send to a chorus that is outside five sides, but inside some closed, a nave divided in half joins, emerged whose older, eastern part of the 13th century the newer, western parts of the 15th and 17th centuries. Choir and eastern part of the nave were formerly arched; the keystones are found walled up as spoils in western and northern facade. Today's flat ceiling dates from the second half of the 17th Jh.s. The church is located picturesquely in an almost completely walled churchyard.
North of the church above, late medieval stone house, which now belongs to a country house (castle lane 12) has received another testimony of Ottraus centuries of history in the " Old Castle ".
Personalities
Freeman
- The poet and writer Wilhelm Schäfer in 1938 on the occasion of his 70th birthday honorary citizen. According to him, the primary school in Ottrau was named.