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.

Municipal council

Ottrau's municipal council is made up of 15 councillors.

• CDU
  Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
  The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...
  
   6 seats
• SPD
  Social Democratic Party of Germany
  The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
  
  4 seats
• FWG (citizens' coalition) 3 seats
• UWG (citizens' coalition) 2 seats

(As of municipal elections held on 26 March 2006)

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.

External links

• Ottrau