Ötisheim, known in local dialect as Aize,
Gemeinde Ötisheim, retrieved 1 June 2018 is a municipality in the Enz district of

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History

Ötisheim became a property of

Maulbronn Monastery Maulbronn Monastery (german: Kloster Maulbronn) is a former Cistercian abbey and ecclesiastical state in the Holy Roman Empire located at Maulbronn, Baden-Württemberg. The monastery complex, one of the best-preserved in Europe, was named a UNE ...

around 1177 and remained as such until it was finally and permanently dissolved in 1806. The district of

Maulbronn Maulbronn () is a city in the district of Enz in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. History Founded in 1838, it emerged from a settlement, built around a monastery, which belonged to the Neckar Community in the Kingdom of Württemberg. In ...

was reorganized as on 18 March 1806. Ötisheim remained under Maulbronn's jurisdiction until 1 October 1938, when it was reassigned to . After

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, it was able to grow substantially thanks its connection by rail. On 1 January 1973, as part of the , Ötisheim was assigned to the newly-created Enz district.

Geography

The municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of Ötisheim covers of the Enz district of

, within the

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. Ötisheim is physically located where the flat and dry , made up of

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and layers of the , meets the Stromberg and its loess-coated muschelkalk and keuper hills. The primary watercourse is the Erlenbach, which flows south to southeast through the municipal area. The lowest elevation above sea level in the municipality,

Normalnull ("standard zero") or (short N. N. or NN ) is an outdated official vertical datum used in Germany. Elevations using this reference system were to be marked (“meters above standard zero”). has been replaced by (NHN). History In 187 ...

(NN), is found where the Erlenbach forms the border with

Mühlacker Mühlacker is a town in the eastern part of the Enz district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Mühlacker station has direct rail connections with Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Pforzheim and the Northern Black Forest. Mühlhausen an der En ...

. The highest elevation, NN, is found at the top of the Sauberg. The and Federally-protected nature reserves are located in the municipal area.

Coat of arms

Ötisheim's

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displays a

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crossed by a

green Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combi ...

lizard upon a

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. The crosier is a reference to Maulbronn Monastery and the lizard, pronounced "Aitsa", is a reference to Ötisheim's name in the local dialect, Aize. This pattern and

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date to 1514, and was approved on 28 September 1950. A variant of this pattern that was used until the 1930s, from a

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dated to 1529, shows just the lizard, placed onto a shield with a two-headed eagle.

References

External links

* (in German) {{Authority control Enzkreis Württemberg