Hahn (Hunsrück)

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Kirchberg (Hunsrück)
Height :	472 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.29 km 2
Residents:	187 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56850
Area code :	06543
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 044
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 5 ; 55481 Kirchberg (Hunsrück)
Website :	www.hahn-hunsrueck.de
Local Mayor :	Guido Schmittinger
Location of the local community Hahn in the Rhein-Hunsrück district

Hahn is a municipality in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kirchberg (Hunsrück) community . The name Hahn is best known for Frankfurt-Hahn Airport , which was converted from Hahn Air Base after 1993 .

geography

Hahn is located on a ridge along the Hunsrückhöhenstrasse and the watershed between Nahe and Moselle in the part of the Hunsrück that faces the Moselle . The Wilwersbach has its sources here.

Neighboring places

the Moselle	Altlay	Würrich and Belg
Raversbeuren		Blacks and upper costs
Lötzbeuren	Sohren Büchenbeuren	the Frankfurt-Hahn airport and Lautzenhausen

history

In the district of Hahn Roman and Frankish settlement traces found. The place name Hahn originally (1120) written Hagene , but also Haan, Han, Hane , and Hain , according to the Rhenish field and place name researcher Heinrich Dittmaier, has the original meaning of a plaited fence , later a enclosed living space .

Hahn is mentioned in a document for the first time around 1120 as Hagene in connection with Lötzbeuren , Pünderich and Karden in a deed of donation to the Mettlach Abbey , and a second time around 1330/35 in the Sponheim slope register.

With the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops , the place became French , from 1798 to 1814 it belonged to the canton of Trarbach , which was assigned to the Rhine-Moselle department . At the Congress of Vienna (1815) the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, the community of Hahn was subordinate to the Mayor's Office of Sohren in the Zell district from 1816 and belonged to the Rhine Province from 1822 until the end of the Second World War . Since 1946 the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate and has belonged to the Kirchberg community since 1970 .

After the Second World War , a military airfield was built on parts of the district of Hahn, which was restructured into a civil airfield (Frankfurt-Hahn) in 1993 after the US Air Force withdrew.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Hahn consists of six council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

The local mayor of Hahn is Guido Schmittinger. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, there was no candidate, he was elected by the local council.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on December 4, 1986 by the Koblenz district government .

Blazon : “A golden diagonal bar in blue, covered with a black jet fighter. In front three golden grain stalks with ears and leaves, in the back a golden hammer and a golden mallet crossed. "

Justification for the coat of arms: The basic colors blue and gold refer to the earlier affiliation to the Vorderen Grafschaft Sponheim , which ruled here from 1248 to 1437 and had these colors in their coat of arms. The jet fighter in the sloping beam is intended to refer to the former " NATO - Military Airfield - Hahn " built in 1951 . The grain stalks with ears and leaves refer to the agriculture practiced for centuries. The miners toughness should remind of the slate mining operated in the 19th and 20th centuries along the Willwersbach.

In the spring of 1986 the local council decided to create its own coat of arms. From 15 drafts he decided on this coat of arms. It comes from Harald Kaspar (glass art from Kappel) who lived in Hahn at the time.

church

Simultankirche, St. Antonius

The most remarkable building is the small, idyllic village church. The Simultankirche Sankt Antonius Hahn. According to dendrochronological studies of wooden beams, its well-fortified tower dates from after 1350/1370. The nave and choir date from 1470. Two bronze bells date from 1489, as the inscription says (one bell was re-cast because it had cracked). In a document from 1508 our church is named "as the parish of Hahn". Before the Reformation , the church belonged to the Sohrener care in the Glan Archdiocese of Mainz . Today Hahn as a branch church belongs again to Sohren and the diocese of Trier. The church has been a simultaneous church since May 17, 1689 and is used jointly by Catholic and Protestant Christians. Today it is the second oldest simultaneous church in the Rheinische Landeskirche .

The Protestant territory Pfalz-Simmern was after the death of Charles II. Without direct heirs of the Catholic become recently line Neuburg fallen. The designated successor Philipp Wilhelm , however, had promised freedom of religion. After the war of the Palatinate Succession with France favored the Catholic Church and in many cases the abolition of Protestant parishes, a compromise was reached in the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697 , with the Catholic side being supported by Johann Wilhelm . Simultaneous churches were established in many parishes in the Palatinate. Many of them were later abolished in the course of the boom around the turn of the century 1880/1910 when the smaller denomination was paid out by the larger one and its own church was built, including in the neighboring municipality of Kappel . There was no need for this in the little rooster. On the information board in front of the church, reference is made to a passage in the Gospel of John : “So that they may all be one” John 17:21.

The fair, Antonius' patronage festival on January 17th, is celebrated by all Hahnern as a village festival. The evangelical parish of Hahn, to which the Briedeler Heck still belonged, merged with the evangelical parish of Würrich on January 1st, 1978 and is now parishally connected to the evangelical parish of Zell - Bad Bertrich - Blankenrath and belongs to the parish of Simmern-Trarbach . On the Catholic side, Hahn is looked after from St Michael Sohren . The church has been a listed building since 1980 .

The local community has been lighting the church since 1998, making it visible to those passing by on the Hunsrückhöhenstrasse at night.

Hahn and the airport

The town of Hahn suffered for many years from the noise of military aircraft taking off and landing , but also benefited from jobs on the military airfield and the rental opportunities in the surrounding area. These deteriorated very much in Hahn, as in the entire region after the Americans withdrew from Hahn Airfield. Although the civil planes have become quieter, Hahn is also in the noise protection zone because of the 24-hour flight operation, which prevents the town from being expanded with a new building area.

Web links

Commons : Hahn (Hunsrück) - Collection of images

Literature about Hahn in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

^ Hagen at the German dictionary

↑ Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Trier and Koblenz , 3 volumes; Arranged by Heinrich Beyer , Leopold Eltester and Adam Görz; Vol. 2: 1169–1212, Koblenz 1865, MRUB II supplement no. 10, from page 338 on p. 348 ( ad hagene dedit pratum ) (digitized see Beyer)

^ Regest of the archives of the Counts of Sponheim 1065–1437 , part 1–5; edited by Johannes Mötsch , Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, 1987–1991, part 3, no. 4750

^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Hahn. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kirchberg, Verbandsgemeinde, ninth line of results. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
^ Verbandsgemeinde Kirchberg: Local community Hahn. Local council. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
↑ Information on the coat of arms on the municipality's website

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[2] Hagen at the German dictionary

[3] Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Trier and Koblenz , 3 volumes; Arranged by Heinrich Beyer , Leopold Eltester and Adam Görz; Vol. 2: 1169–1212, Koblenz 1865, MRUB II supplement no. 10, from page 338 on p. 348 ( ad hagene dedit pratum ) (digitized see Beyer)

[4] Regest of the archives of the Counts of Sponheim 1065–1437 , part 1–5; edited by Johannes Mötsch , Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, 1987–1991, part 3, no. 4750