More frequent home

coat of arms	map
base data
Land of the Federal Republic:	Baden-Wuerttemberg
governmental district:	Karlsruhe
district:	Rhine-Neckar-region
geographical situation:	Coordinates: 49° 22 ' N, 08° 35 ' O 49° 22 ' N, 08° 35 ' O
height:	101 m and. NN
surface:	12.78 km ²
inhabitants:	10.122 (31. December 2004)
Population density:	792 inhabitants for each km ²
foreigner portion:	9.0%
postal zip code:	68723, 68735-68736 (old: 6836)
Preselection:	06202
Kfz characteristics:	Hp
municipality key:	08 2 26 062
address of the local administration:	Mannheimer road 49 68723 more frequent home
official Website:	www.oftersheim.de
E-Mail address:
Politics
mayor:	Helmut builds

more frequent home is municipality in the Rhine-Neckar-region, Baden-Wuerttemberg in close proximity to Heidelberg. It is today an alive and typical Wohngemeinde with many leisure-time facilities.

table of contents 1 Geografie 1,1 geographical situation of 1,2 neighbour municipalities 1,3 arrangement of the municipality 1,4 geology and climate Geographical layer the municipality more frequent home is appropriate for 2 history 3 politics 3,1 local council of 3,2 mayors 3,3 coats of arms and flag 3,4 partnerships between cities 4 economics and infrastructure 4,1 traffic 4,2

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Geografie [work on] in north bathing, in the midst of thatKurpfalz of Baden approximately 15 km south of Mannheim and well 10 km west of the city centre Heidelberg removes.
By the place the glue brook flows.

neighbour municipalities

direct to the place borders in the north the city Schwetzingen and inNortheast the municipality Plankstadt. In the further periphery (approx. 5-6km) are the places Brühl and Ketsch (NO), Hockenheim (SW), barrier village and sand living (s).

arrangement of the municipality

to the municipality belongs the Hardtwaldsiedlung, which was built after the 2.Weltkrieg by refugee of homeland immigrants. Thereare also the sports fields and club houses of the TSV and the SG more frequent home.

geology and climate

more frequent home lie in the midst of the lowlandses of the Upper Rhine. Favoured by the Pfälzerwald in the west, the desert forest in the east and the Taunus in the further north a balanced prevails,mild climate. Warm summers and mild, winters nearly free of snow are here the rule. To the boundary area also the largest coherent inland dune area of Germany belongs. (See under Web on the left of)

history

history and/or. Historik of more frequent home begins in the year 766 with the documentary mention in the monastery too Lorsch. One assumes that it however already approx. 500 n. Chr. by the Frankish common-free Ofteri one based. The place is thereby one of the oldest settlements in the range Schwetzingen and Hockenheim.

politics

local council

Local council 2004
a party	Voices	of seats
CDU	35.70%	8
SPD	29.48%	7
FWV	26.91%	6
FDP	7.91%	1
election turnout: 54.69%

mayor

Helmut build are since 1998 mayors. The next mayor choice is 2006 planned.

Past municipality heads (not complete):

• 1948 - 1954: Adolf Kircher
• 1954 - 1974: Karl free
• 1974 - 1998: Victory forest Kehder
• 1998 - 2006: Helmut builds

coats of arms and flag

the Oftersheimer coat of arms is as follows described: “In the divided sign above of blue and silver gerautet, down in silver a green queue creeping to the left.”

More frequent home is one of the few municipalities of the former Kurpfalz, which lead the blue-white Wittelsbacher waking from kurpfälzischer time in their coat of arms still. In the heraldry the succumbing lozenges will wake designated. The Wittelsbacher waking in the top of the coat of arms arises for the first time 1696, duringthe first seal is proven in the year 1677, at which however only the queue is identical to the today's coat of arms down, while in the top a court bar was to be seen. The meaning of the queue in the Oftersheimer coat of arms is not well-known. There is for it no soundExplanation. The interpretation that it concerns thereby a protecting charm picture, appears rather improbably. Just as little is sound further interpretations, those the queue on in old time the wound run of the glue brook, the Bogenlinien of the dunes or on the queues and Ottern, thoselived within the sandigen and warm dune range, lead back. Is delivered that 1609 were already burned into the trees a zigzag-like indication serving as Gemarkungsgrenzmale, from which the queue picture possibly developed. A sound proof, whether one of these interpretations applies, is not possible. The mystery overthe coat of arms picture becomes still more difficult by a description of the boundary lines and boundary stones from the year 1796, according to which in the duke cross serving as boundary stone “… against the Oftersheimer Gemarkung a Aal eingehauen is. “

Following the coat of arms colors the municipality more frequent home leads since 1959 one green/white flag. The color green stands for the queue, white for the silver on the coat of arms reason was selected.

partnership

relations with the municipality Weinböhla in Saxonia maintains partnerships between cities the municipality more frequent home.

economics and infrastructure

Traffic

traffic-technically is the municipality regionally and supraregional tied up with the Rhine Valley railroad line and the motorway connections A5 & A6. Suburban traffic tying up exist direction Mannheim, Heidelberg, Speyer, Hockenheim, barrier village and Karlsruhe.

public mechanisms

for the needs of the inhabitants andVisitor maintains more frequent home numerous public and cultural mechanisms.
With the 1963 , 1980 and 2004 built extended and/or. if Kurpfalzhalle modernized, the municipality their inhabitants has possibilities and/or. The premises for the cultural joint venture work establishes.
For smaller meetings since 1983 the rose hall particularly popular with associations stands for the order.
The municipality did justice to the sporty and school interests by the building Karl-freesport-resounds in the year 1970, which received the name of the former, mayor and honour citizen of many years Karl free.

As the further center of the public happening the messuage is Mannheimer road 59, also, developed for a meeting place for the older citizens and citizens, a developed inner court with barn for large meetings and a Gewölbekeller for smaller association meetings.

Exemplary the municipality in the area of the dwelling supply, both by numerous measures in the social housing construction, acted as well as indicatively with the building of a cared forSenior housing estate (designated after old mayor and honour citizen victory forest Kehder).
With the mechanism and the various enterprise of a youth centre with Internettreff one also the requirements of the youth became fair.
Those place a valuable enriching of the cultural offer outstanding equipped municipality library, as well as area and localhistorically for many yearsinteresting exhibitions of the municipality museum.
In addition more frequent home was and is involved in the building and enterprise that, nearby the Gemarkungsgrenze in Schwetzingen lain, bath plant (open-rir swimming pool as well as spare time & experience bath “Bellamar”), which supplements and enriches the gemeindliche infrastructure considerably.

picture gallery

Kurpfalzhalle

“station “

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grill hut at the edge of the dunes

Web on the left of

• homepage of the municipality more frequent home
• of pictures
• the Oftersheimer dunes