- Hattert
Infobox German Location
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Wappen = Wappen Hattert.jpg
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Bundesland = Rheinland-Pfalz
Landkreis = Westerwaldkreis
Verbandsgemeinde = Hachenburg
Höhe = 280
Fläche = 11.52
Einwohner = 1712
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 57644
Vorwahl = 02662
Kfz = WW
Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 43 235
Gliederung = 5
Adresse-Verband = Gartenstraße 11 57627 Hachenburg
Website = [http://www.hachenburg-vg.de/08_gemeinden/hattert/index.html www.hachenburg-vg.de]
Bürgermeister = Heribert HommelHattert is an "Ortsgemeinde" – a community belonging to a "
Verbandsgemeinde " – in theWesterwaldkreis inRhineland-Palatinate ,Germany . It is the biggest "Ortsgemeinde" in the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate.Geography
Location
Hattert lies between
Hachenburg and Altenkirchen, on the so-called Altenkirchen Plateau ("Altenkirchener Hochebene") in the “Further” Westerwald ("Vorderwesterwald"). The hollow called the Hatterter Grund stretches from an elevation of 265 m up to 349 m. The Rothenbach, which rises inGehlert , flows through the Hatterter Grund. In Oberhattert it is fed by the Selbach and in Niederhattert by the Aggerbach, emptying into theWied as the Hatterter Bach betweenWinkelbach and Hanwerth. Along the edge of the Hatterter Grund run "Bundesstraße n" 413 and 414, which meet near Hachenburg.Constituent communities
Hattert’s "
Ortsteil e" are Oberhattert, Mittelhattert, Niederhattert, Laad and Hütte.History
Establishment
With the help of Hattert’s historical names it is assumed that the community had already arisen by the 11th century. It is furthermore assumed that the settlement of "Hattenrode" grew out of a one-farm Frankish settlement. This part of Hattert later bore the field name "Auf dem Frankenhof", and is still known as such by today’s inhabitants.
From 1180, the Count of
Sayn held sway over the Hatterter Grund. The community’s first documentary mention has been dated to 13 December 1373 (the original document is found in the Hessian "Hauptstaatsarchiv" inWiesbaden under the "Akten-Nummer" 74/484). As with most of the surrounding places, the name, or its historical forerunner, suggests a clearing settlement for which patches of forest were cleared of trees. In the Hatterter Grund arose the communities of Oberhattert, Mittelhattert, Niederhattert, Laad and Hütte.The Hatterter Grund belonged to the parochial centres of
Kroppach and Altstadt (the latter now an outlying centre ofHachenburg ), whose common boundary was the Rothenbach. Thus, some of the little places here were assigned to Kroppach and others to Altstadt.Sometime before 1402 arose the lesser noble name "Nail von Hattenrode" (also "Nayl" or "Nayll"), to whose estate the
mill in the Hatterter Grund belonged as of 1427. The family’s last representative, Wilhelm von Hattenrode, died about 1523, whereafter the Hatteroth (later Sophiental) Estate underwent changing ownership arrangements.Overlords in the whole area were the Counts of Sayn, until 1799 when Sayn-Hachenburg passed to Nassau-Weilburg. From 1806 the Hatterter Grund belonged to the
Duchy of Nassau through the founding of theConfederation of the Rhine .In 1817 came the amalgamation of Niederhattert and Laad into one community. The same was done with Mittelhattert and Hütte, with the resulting bigger community swelling further in 1818 with the addition of the Sophiental Estate to its municipal area.
In 1866, the Duchy of Nassau was annexed by
Prussia in the wake of theAustro-Prussian War , soon after which – indeed the next year – the communities in the Hatterter Grund were assigned to the Oberwesterwaldkreis (district), whose seat was in Marienberg.As of 1946, these places belonged to Rhineland-Palatinate and the "
Regierungsbezirk " of Montabaur, and then later, between 1968 and 2000 to the "Regierungsbezirk" of Koblenz. In 1969, the villages of Niederhattert with Laad, Mittelhattert with Hütte and Oberhattert were then amalgamated with each other to create what has been ever since then the biggest community in the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Hachenburg.Railway
On 1 April 1885, the Altenkirchen-Hachenburg stretch of
railway , the so-called Oberwesterwaldbahn, was opened with a station at Hattert, whose building time can nevertheless no longer be exactly dated. The first plans for such a railway were put forth as early as 1842, and the last stretch of the line, from Altenkirchen to Au/Sieg began running on 1 May 1887. By 1 August 1901, a narrow-gauge railway (Kleinbahn-AG Selters-Hachenburg) linked Hachenburg and Selters. The alignment led right through the Hatterter Grund, and both Niederhattert and Oberhattert had halts at their disposal. In 1950, dismantling work began on the narrow-gauge railway. The old trackbed can still be seen now only in a few spots in Hattert. The former Oberwesterwaldbahn railway station is now a request stop, and the station building is now privately owned.Schools
In 1820, both Oberhattert and Niederhattert got their own school buildings. With the other one in Hütte, which can no longer be reliably dated, the Hatterter Grund had three school buildings all together. The school in Oberhattert was, after comprehensive repairs already held to have become unfit for use in 1887, but new building or a conversion could not be done owing to a lack of money and differences of opinion among those responsible. Only on 3 October 1911 was a new school building finished in Oberhattert and the old one torn down.
In the 1960s, schooling within Hattert ended altogether. Since then, schoolchildren have been going to the
primary school inMüschenbach , while secondary-level students have been going to theHauptschule andRealschule in Hachenburg as well as to the private Gymnasium run by the Marienstatt Cistercian Abbey.Church
In 1940, a Catholic branch church was built in Oberhattert, which was expanded to a
chapel in 1948 and newly built after a fire in 1996. In 1957 came the parish church "Maria Königin", which was built on the same lot, as well as the Hattert-Merkelbach rectorate.On 1 January 2007, the parishes of Hachenburg and Hattert-Merkelbach were merged to form the parish of "St. Marien Hachenburg-Hattert". The parish church since then has been "Maria Himmelfahrt" in Hachenburg, while "Maria Königin" in Hattert is now a branch church.
Coat of arms
The community’s arms are those formerly borne by the lesser noble family of Nayl, whose members bore the title "Denß Monhard Nayl von Hatterode" (see History). The nails refer to the name “Nayl”. Interestingly, one spelling of the family’s name, namely “Nail”, is the same as the English word. The German word is, however, "Nagel".
Population development
External links
* [http://www.hattert-online.de/ Hattert-online.de] (unofficial) de icon
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