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ID: 7012642
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012642
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Otterberg (inhabited place)  Otterberg (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 49 30 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 49.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 007 46 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 7.7667  decimal degrees

Note: The western German town of Otter berg is located near Kaiserslautern. It was the site of an important Cistercian monastery in the 12th century. After the Reformation, the parish church was divided by an inner wall and used by both Roman Catholics and Lutherans. The 2005 population was calculated at 5237.

Names:
Otterberg (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Deutschland (nation)  ........  Deutschland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Rheinland-Pfalz (state)  ............  Rheinland-Pfalz (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Otterberg (inhabited place)  ................  Otterberg (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1144
town (C)
monastic center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Otterberg..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
....................  Dehio Handbuch: Rheinland-Pfalz (1985) 804 ff.
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 147
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................  USBGN: Germany-BRD (1960)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Dehio Handbuch: Rheinland-Pfalz (1985) 804 ff.
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1840863
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 147
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  USBGN: Germany-BRD (1960)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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