Ottensheim

Ottensheim is a marketplace town in Upper Austria in the district Urfahr surroundings in the higher Mühlviertel with 4767 population. The community is positioned in the judicial district Urfahr. The municipality, once a significant buying and selling hub at the Danube, is the third oldest market in Upper Austria and has a ancient market middle with homes from the sixteenth century. Today, Ottensheim has end up a popular location of house for households due to its exceptional amusement and recreational regions and its proximity to Linz, mixed with strong population growth because the 1990s.

The name Ottensheim may be derived from the Old High German prefixes Oten or Oto, but also from the non-public names Otuni or Otini. Therefore, the call could come from Knight Otini, who had once built a fort here. All those prefixes can be attributed to the commonplace ancestral form of the vintage Germanic: AUDA. This supposed wealth, treasure, ownership.