Ottersweier

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Municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Ottersweier within Rastatt district

(2023–31) Jürgen Pfetzer^[1] (CDU)Area

• Total29.21 km² (11.28 sq mi)Elevation

137 m (449 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total6,536 • Density220/km² (580/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

77833

Dialling codes07223Vehicle registrationRAWebsitewww.ottersweier.de

Ottersweier is a municipality in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is part of the district of Rastatt, and lies between the larger towns Bühl and Achern.

History

18th Century

In 1774, the widow Margravine Maria Viktoria Pauline von Arenberg moved her residence from Baden-Baden to Ottersweier to establish a convent school for the Augustinian choir nuns in the former residence of the Jesuits. In the convent school, young girls learned skills they needed as future mothers and educators.

Ottersweier was long part of the Bühl district and, after its dissolution in 1973, became part of the Rastatt district.

Twin cities

- Westerlo, Flanders, Belgium, since 1962
- Krauschwitz (Saxony), Germany, since 1989

Sons and daughters of the place

Joseph Sauer (1872-1949) born in the district of Unzhurst, theologian, Christian archaeologist and art historian
Bernhard Friedmann (1932–2021), politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag 1976–1990, President of the European Court of Auditors 1996-1999

References

^ Bürgermeisterwahl Ottersweier 2023
^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.