Oberotterbach has 950 inhabitants and was first documentally mentioned in 760.

The catholic church St. Georg bears a late gothic baptismal font and two wooden statues from about 1500.

The protestant church has a tower basement and a gothic choir with ribbed vaultings that where built around 1300. The sacristy and the upper floors of the tower ae late gothic; the nave was built in 1537 and restored in 1726, the organ was made in 1754.

The ruins of Guttenberg castle are about 3km west in the Mundatwald (Mundat forest), a part of the Palatinate Forest. This castle was first documentally mentioned in 1150 as property of the house of Hohenstaufen. The castle was destroyed in the Peasants War in 1525.