Ottobrunn () is a suburban

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southeast of

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, founded in 1955. Ottobrunn consists of mainly semi-detached and detached houses, as well as extensive garden areas. Ottobrunn is also the German Headquarters of Airbus Defense and Space (former European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS)), with the majority of Airbus DS grounds situated in the neighbouring community of Taufkirchen. According to the

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, the municipality is the second-most

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in all of Germany, trailing only

, and ahead of

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History

The town's center was established in the mid-1980s with the town hall (1983) and the community centre (1986). The community centre was named after the German-Italian composer

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (born Ermanno Wolf) (January 12, 1876 – January 21, 1948) was an Italian composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as ''Il segreto di Susanna'' (1909). A number of his works were based on plays by ...

who lived in Ottobrunn between 1915 and 1931. There is a memorial

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, called the Ottosäule, made by the chiseler Anton Ripfel, commemorating the day in 1832 when Otto of Greece traveled past the present community area on his way to become

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. It was originally situated exactly from the center of Munich, marking the exact spot on the route where Otto of Greece's father left his son. The column was moved, however, southwest, to make room for widening the Rosenheimer Landstrasse.

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