Otzweiler

Otzweiler is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kirn -Land.

Geography

Otzweiler is located on the major stream in the North Palatine Uplands. In the north, Becherbach located at Kirn, in the east dog stream, in the South Caucasus and west is Oberreidenbach.

History

From the early and high Middle Ages, little is known about Otzweiler. In the 14th century Otzweiler belonged to the rule of the game counts on the Kyrburg. In 1375 shared the Wild Count Otto and Friedrich von Kyrburg goods and rights that they in the "Official Otzweiler " possessed (including with dog stream, Schweinschied, Löllbach ) among themselves.

Fabricius believed that the place of a wild count's court of the Court of Becherbach emerged and originally belonged to the high court on the heath. Otzweiler, which consisted only of this court and two mills, has been further developed in later times into a larger settlement. At the beginning of the 16th century the place to Schultheißerei Rhodesia belonged within the wild count's Office Kyrburg. As in Otzweiler also lived sponheimische subjects, also claimed the Counts of Sponheim or their legal successors, the Margrave of Baden, as the owner of the Office Naumburg ( seat castle Naumburg at Bear Creek ) the territorial jurisdiction over the place. The resulting litigation between the Office Salm- Kyrburg and the Baden Office 1757 Naumburg were then settled that the goods and people of Otzweiler in Community management should remain the two offices.

A unified management by the locals were only assumed when the French in 1798 zuordneten the location of the newly created Mairie Schmidthachenbach in Canton Grumbach Saarland Department.

After the end of French rule in 1814 and a short-term membership of Prussia in 1816 can Otzweiler to Oberschultheißerei Becherbach in Hesse- homburgischen Oberamt Meis home.

After the dissolution of the Office Becherbach (1940 ) Otzweiler came to office Kirn -Land.

1864 lived in Otzweiler in 57 houses 71 families. Scoring the majority of the more than 300 municipality was Protestant. Today, the place has about 210 inhabitants.

On January 11, 1800 in Otzweiler Schinderhannes committed a robbery and then fled on the right bank of the Rhine.

The development of the population of Otzweiler, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Otzweiler consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: " About blue - golden geschachtem sign foot in silver a red millstone topped with a golden Mühleisen ".

The geschachte field refers to the former belonging to the Front County of Sponheim. Millstone and Mühleisen reminiscent of the formation of the village Otzweiler. According to Pastor Lentze in his book " Official Naumburg and parish Becherbach " (p. 31) Otzweiler 1599 was only a yard with two mills - before age only a mill.

The council commissioned on 3 February 1966 Graphic chest, Kirn Sulzbach, to develop a design for a coat of arms. At the meeting on 8 June 1966, the Council adopted the draft submitted. After approval by the State Archives of the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz issued on July 4, 1966, the authorization to run their own coat of arms.

Economy and infrastructure

In the south, the highway runs 270 In Kirn is a station on the railway line Bingen- Saarbrücken.