 Despite initial plans to also incorporate the village Dennach, on whose premises the name-giving fortress Straubenhardt was located, these plans were scrapped last minute and Dennach was awarded to Neuenbürg"

Ottenhausen absorbed the hamlet Rudmersbach which was mentioned initially in 1292 as 'Rutmerspach' "

Around the year 1000 the Counts of Calw had a fortress built near today's village of Neuenbürg-Dennach.The fortress was called Straubenhardt after the inhospitable area (Alemannic