Otting is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the district of
Donau-Ries
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in
Bavaria
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in
Germany
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.
The village is located between
Augsburg
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and
Nuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
, about 5 km east of
Wemding
Wemding () is a Town#Germany, town in the Donau-Ries district of Bavaria, Germany. Wemding is situated on the edge of the Ries meteorite crater in the Geopark Ries.
Wemding is the location of the ''Zeitpyramide'' (Time pyramid), a public art work ...
and about 6 km west of
Monheim.
Mayors
*Rupert Felber, 1945–1946 (CSU),
*Kaspar Waidhaußer, 1946–1952 (CSU),
*Kaspar Rupp, 1952–1956 (CSU),
*Karl Häfelein, 1956–1984 (CSU),
*Wolfgang Seefried, 1984–1990 (Free voters),
*Walter Bayerle, 1990–2002 (Free voters),
*Johann Bernreuther, 2002–2020
*Wolfgang Lechner, since 2020
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Further reading
*Gemeinde Otting: ''Otting im Spiegel seiner Geschichte''. Reimlingen 2009.
External links
*
Official website
References
Donau-Ries
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