Otterstadt

Otterstadt is a local church in the Rhein Pfalz Kreis in Rhineland Palatinate. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rheinauen. A clay pot of the Rossener subculture, which was discovered on Otterstadter district, dates from the 4th or 3rd millennium BC. Chr. Germanic lines inside the district from the time before everlasting agreement represents the predominantly along with kitchen utensils Hortfund Otterstadt, the Roman loot from the 3rd Century consists of and is now saved inside the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer.

Otterstadt turned into first stated on April 7, 1020 in a file of Speyer bishop Walther, but probable already in 7. To 8. Century founded through the Franks. Otterstadt changed into free of imperial jurisdiction through Emperor Otto II in 974 and subordinated to the diocese of Speyer. The bishop took over 1065 then the sovereignty over Otterstadt. From 1090 to 1797 Otterstadt was inside the ownership of the Speyerer St. Guidostiftes under the supremacy of the Hochstiftes Speyer. During the Thirty Years' War, Otterstadt become looted and set on fireplace. The populace reduced from 1618 to 1661 from 390 to one 150. In the Palatinate War of Succession, the location became burned 1689 again.