- Source: Ottrau
Ottrau is a municipality in the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Ottrau lies about 10 km northeast of Alsfeld.
= Constituent communities
=The community of Ottrau is made up of six constituent communities:
Ottrau: 730 inhabitants
Immichenhain: 605 inhabitants
Weißenborn: 377 inhabitants
Görzhain: 374 inhabitants
Schorbach: 348 inhabitants
Kleinropperhausen: 64 inhabitants
History
The constituent community of Weißenborn had its first documentary mention in 1307 under the name Wisenburn. It was later also named Wiesenbrunn and the name that it has today comes from that.
= Amalgamations
=The Greater Community of Ottrau has consisted since Hesse's municipal reform in 1972 of the six formerly independent communities of Ottrau, Immichenhain, Weißenborn, Görzhain, Schorbach und Kleinropperhausen.
Politics
= Municipal council
=Ottrau's municipal council is made up of 15 councillors.
CDU 6 seats
SPD 4 seats
FWG (citizens' coalition) 3 seats
UWG (citizens' coalition) 2 seats
(As of municipal elections held on 26 March 2006)
= Town partnership
=Drávafok, Hungary
Personalities
= Honorary citizen
=Dr. Wilhelm Schäfer, poet and writer, became an honorary citizen on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1938. Ottrau's primary school is also named after him.
References
External links
Official website (in German)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
- Ottrau
- Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
- Schorbach (Grenff)
- Karl Bernhardi
- Grenff
- List of municipal flags of Central Germany
- East Hesse Highlands
- Wilhelm Schäfer
- Alsfeld
- Breitenbach am Herzberg
