Ostelsheim is a municipality in the district of Calw in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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Geography

Geographical location

Ostelsheim is located at the extreme limit of the

Black Forest The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is t ...

. Protected from bad weather, it is surrounded by hills and forests. Typical of the landscape around the city are the still largely preserved in its original appearance landscape parts with numerous rear belts, stone bars and sheep pastures. Around a quarter of the 923-hectare mountain area consists of forest.

Neighboring communities

To Ostelsheim borders the municipalities

Althengstett Althengstett is a municipality in the district of Calw in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. History Althengstett was first mentioned in a document from around 1120 regarding a donation to Hirsau Abbey as "Hingesteten". The village was purchased in ...

Simmozheim Simmozheim is a town in the district of Calw (district), Calw in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. History From 1341 to 1442, Herrenalb Abbey slowly acquired title over Simmozheim. The Kingdom of Württemberg annexed the abbey in 1808 and Simmozhei ...

, Weil der Stadt, Grafenau and

Gechingen Gechingen is a town in the district of Calw in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. History Gechingen was first mentioned in 1110 as a fief of the in a document outlining gifts made by local nobility to Hirsau Abbey. Lordship over Gechingen was inher ...

Municipality arrangement

The municipality Ostelsheim includes the village Ostelsheim and the place Sägemühle.

History

The place is probably an Alemannic founding from 4th century. In 1357 the city came together with

Böblingen Böblingen (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Beblenga'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, seat of Böblingen (district), Böblingen District. Sindelfingen and Böblingen are Geographic contiguity, contiguous. History Böblingen was found ...

to the

County of Württemberg The County of Württemberg was a historical territory with origins in the realm of the House of Württemberg, the heart of the old Duchy of Swabia. Its capital was Stuttgart. From the 12th century until 1495, it was a county within the Holy Rom ...

. As part of the country Württemberg-Hohenzollern the municipality came in 1952 to the newly founded State of Baden-Württemberg. The municipality Ostelsheim retained even after the regional reorganization in 1975 in their independence. Ostelsheim, Andreas Kieser

Ostelsheim in the year 1681

Politics

Council

The local elections on 7 June 2009 yielded the following distribution of seats: FWG 100% ± 0 12 seats ± 0

Economy and Infrastructure

Transportation

Through the municipality runs no federal road, however, national road B 295 ( Stuttgart - Calw ) is three kilometers north of Ostelsheim in

. The nearest motorway junction is Böblingen-Hulb on the 81, about twelve kilometers south-east. Ostelsheim is located at the

Black Forest Railway (Württemberg) The Black Forest Railway (German: ''Schwarzwaldbahn'')—also known as the ''Württembergische Schwarzwaldbahn'' ("Württemberg Black Forest Railway") to distinguish it from the railway of the same name in Baden—is a railway line in southern Ge ...

who comes from

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

via Weil der Stadt to town and then continues to Calw. The community, however, was disconnected due to the decommissioning of the section between Weil der Stadt and Calw for freight in 1988. The passenger transport was already shut down in 1983. The nearest railway station is now located about three kilometers in Weil der Stadt. From there are regular buses over Ostelsheim to Calw. The county is planning, the reactivation of the railway line.

Water Supply

The municipality Ostelsheim draws its drinking water from the Zweckverband Schwarzwald water supply, to which it belongs since 1976. Since 1972, there was already a water supply contract with the Zweckverband. Karl Walz, Dagmar Kraus: 100 Jahre Trinkwasser. Zweckverband Schwarzwaldwasserversorgung 1896 - 1996. Neuweiler 1996.

Christian religions

Ostelsheim is dominated Protestant since the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

. The Protestant church has its home in the centrally located village church, the rectory and parish hall are located in the immediate vicinity.

Personality

Sons and daughters of the town

Gottlieb Wilhelm Hoffmann (1771-1846), notary and mayor, founder of the Württemberg Brethren in Korntal and Wilhelmsdorf

References

{{Authority control Calw (district) Württemberg