Herten (Rheinfelden)

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Herten
Herten coat of arms
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 44 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : 281 m above sea level NN
Area : 8.23 km²
Residents : 4990  (Apr. 2017)
Population density : 606 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1973
Postal code : 79618
Area code : 07623

Herten is a village in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany. It is a district of the city of Rheinfelden (Baden) .

geography

location

Herten is the westernmost district of Rheinfeld and is located on an floodplain terrace of the High Rhine .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Herten are Wyhlen in the west, Rührberg in the northwest (both community Grenzach-Wyhlen), Degerfelden in the northeast and Warmbach in the east (both Rheinfelden community). The Swiss community of Kaiseraugst is located south of the Rhine .

history

Map of Herten 1884

Herten was first mentioned on May 17, 807 as Harta and Hertum in a deed of donation from the St. Gallen monastery . The settlement by the Romans is proven by archaeological finds . Herten's affiliation to the county of Rheinfelden probably goes back to the 11th century. In 1494 the place became Austrian. The Dinghof von Herten served as a court of justice for the Upper Austrian rule. In 1806, the part of Rheinfeld on the right bank of the Rhine, including Herten, became part of the state of Baden .

On October 1, 1973, Herten was incorporated into the city of Rheinfelden (Baden).

In 2007 the village of Herten was 1200 years old, a festival took place from July 12th to 15th, 2007. A delegation from the city of the same name in Herten in North Rhine-Westphalia was present .

politics

Local council

Herten has its own local administration. Sabine Hartmann-Müller has been the mayor since February 2012.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Herten shows a golden hexagram on a blue background and in it the Austrian shield , which reminds of the former affiliation of the place to Upper Austria. This coat of arms has been used since 1905 at the suggestion of the Baden General State Archives .

Culture and sights

St. Urban in Herten

The Catholic parish church St. Urban in the village center was rebuilt in 1792 by Franz Anton Bagnato . The interior is decorated with stucco according to that time . Matthias Faller's pulpit was created in rococo style in 1765 and brought to Herten from the Dominican Church in Freiburg in 1795. Another Catholic Church of St. Joseph was built in 1928 in the neo-baroque style. In the facade of the main portal there is a niche with a statue of the Madonna.

The Protestant Petruskirche is a modern building from 1958/59.

In the cemetery chapel in Herten, the Freiburg painter Dominik Weber created a dance of death in 1887, which is based on the Freiburg dance of death from around 1790. The explanation for this is that he himself was commissioned to restore the Freiburg Dance of Death in 1856. The Herten dance of death runs on the north and south walls in two friezes with four pictures above and two below; The artist has painted prayers to commemorate the dead in the remaining open spaces of the two lower rows. It depicts the scenes known from Freiburg: child, boy, girl, young man, young woman, husband, wife, nobleman, beggar, curmudgeon, priest, farmer. The accompanying verses agree almost literally with the texts of the Freiburg Dance of Death.

The ruins of Hertenberg from the 13th century are located on a mountain spur above the settlement area .

The own tower, an observation tower built in 2006 , stands approx. 1 km north of Herten on the 523 m high Hirzenleck, the highest elevation of the Dinkelberg in the Rheinfelden district. From the tower you have a good view of the Swiss Jura chain and the Hotzenwald .

Infrastructure

The Rührberg radio station is located northwest of Herten on a foothill of the Dinkelberg .

traffic

The village is connected to the national rail network via the Hochrheinbahn ( Basel - Singen ). It also has a bus connection . It belongs to the Regio Verkehrsverbund Lörrach . The Herten – Kaiseraugst ferry crosses the Upper Rhine to the Swiss bank.

The federal highway 34 leads to Bodman-Ludwigshafen and Grenzach-Wyhlen . In addition, Herten is connected to Grenzach-Wyhlen and Rheinfelden-Degerfelden via the L 139 . The next motorway access is the A 861 with the junction Rheinfelden-Süd / Grenzach-Wyhlen via the B 34 , the A 98 via the junction Lörrach-Ost and in Switzerland A 2 via the junction Basel-Ost / Wettstein .

To the east of the village is the Herten-Rheinfelden airfield ( ICAO code EDTR) with a 405 meter long grass runway. It is mainly approached by light aircraft.

education

Until 2017, Herten owned a primary and secondary school. The Werkrealschule (secondary school) was added to the Schillerschule Rheinfelden in 2011 and closed in 2017. Secondary schools are located in Grenzach-Wyhlen and the surrounding towns of Lörrach, Rheinfelden and Bad Säckingen. Herten also has a Catholic and a Protestant kindergarten. There is also a school and a kindergarten for people with intellectual disabilities, both parts of the St. Josefshaus Herten .

Personalities

  • Karl Rolfus (1819–1907), Catholic priest and clergyman
  • Alfred Winkler (* 1946), former mayor of Herten and member of the state parliament
  • Sabine Hartmann-Müller (* 1962), mayor of Herten and member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament

literature

  • Julius Birlin: Herten from the past to the now! . Self-published, Rheinfelden-Degerfelden 2002.
  • Haus Salmegg - Association for Art and History Rheinfelden e. V., History work group (ed.): From the history of Herten / Rheinfelden: Flurnamen. Hertenberg. Red cave . Rheinfelder Geschichtsblätter, Vol. 9. Rheinfelden (Baden) 1999, ISBN 3-932889-09-6 .

Web links

Commons : Rheinfelden-Herten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 521 .
  2. ↑ Hans Georg Wehrens: The dance of death in the Alemannic language area. "I have to do it - and don't know what" . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2563-0 , p. 272.
  3. ↑ own tower Rheinfelden on badische-seiten.de