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Ottrau

Field	Value
image_coa	DEU Ottrau COA.svg
coordinates
image_plan	Ottrau in HR.svg
state	Hessen
region	Kassel
district	Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
elevation	378
area	48.49
postal_code	34633
area_code	06639
licence	HR
Gemeindeschlüssel	06 6 34 020
website	www.ottrau.de
mayor	Jonas Korell
leader_term	2021–27
party	CDU

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

Hungary 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

(5 September 2022). "Ergebnisse der letzten Direktwahl aller hessischen Landkreise und Gemeinden". [[Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt]].

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