 Ownership was simply assumed and acknowledged informally.Until a few years ago, Odenbach held its kermis (church consecration festival, locally known as the "Kerb") on the third Sunday before Saint Bartholomew's Day (24 August, and thus the kermis would have been held in late July or early August), but the municipal council then decided to change this longstanding custom and fix the festival's timing at the third Sunday in August.After the village youth hold a parade, the focus shifts to the kermis square ("Kerbeplatz"), where the "Straußpredigt", a kind of “sermon”, is delivered.