Otterfing lies on end moraine hills of the last Ice Age in the foothills of the Alps overlooking the Mangfall Mountains.

The village Otterfing is located in the middle of Upper Bavaria on the Bundesstraße 13 only 4 km north of Holzkirchen directly on the southern border of the administrative district Munich.

In 1942, during excavation work near the station, the grave of a woman from the late Roman period (ca.

After many different spellings the place is already called Otterfing in 1568 in the Bavarian country tables of Philipp Apian.

In the middle are two silver ibexes from the coat of arms of those of Kurz von Senftenau, from whom the Count dynasty of Valley originates.

The golden arch below symbolises the Teufelsgraben, a dry valley south of Otterfing, where the melting water of the Isar-Loisach glacier once flowed off.