Ottenburg

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50°45′10″N 4°36′55″E / 50.75278°N 4.61528°E / 50.75278; 4.61528

Ottenburg is a village in the municipality of Huldenberg in the province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium, close to the language border.^[1][2] The prehistoric earthwork, a long barrow known as de Tomme, is located here, identified in 2021 by archaeologists as the oldest such monument known in the Low Countries.^[3]

During the period of French occupation (1795–1815), Ottenburg was known as Ottenbourg and was in the department of the Dyle.^[4]

Paul Splingaerd (1842–1906), who became a mandarin in China, lived in Ottenburg in his youth.^[1]

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