Hardert

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '  N , 7 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Neuwied
Association municipality :	Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach
Height :	300 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.44 km 2
Residents:	849 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	247 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56579
Area code :	02634
License plate :	NO
Community key :	07 1 38 026
Association administration address:	Westerwaldstrasse 32–34 56579 Rengsdorf
Website :	www.hardert.de
Local Mayor :	Heiko Schlosser
Location of the local community Hardert in the Neuwied district

Hardert is a municipality in the Neuwied district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach . Hardert is a state-approved climatic health resort .

Geographical location

The place is located in the Westerwald northeast of Rengsdorf and extends east and above the Birzenbach . The state forest borders Dierdorf to the west, and the Steinkopf rises to the north ( 386  m above sea  level ).

history

In 1321 the place was first mentioned as Harterode in a lease document from the St. Kastor Abbey in Koblenz .

The place name, which later also reads Hartenrode or Hartert, contains the Middle High German words "hart" and "-rode". "Hart" was the name for high forest or mountain forest, "-rode" indicates that the settlement was built on cleared terrain, whereby the syllable "-rode" has changed to today's final syllable "-ert".

The von Hartenrode or Hardert family died out in 1553 with Johann von Hartenrade . Then Hardert comes into the possession of the Counts of Wied .

For centuries, Hardert was shaped by agriculture and forestry. In the second half of the 20th century, the number of farms fell sharply.

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Hardert

Population development

The development of the population of Hardert, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 160 1835 256 1871 290 1905 319 1939 347 1950 397

year Residents 1961 396 1970 447 1987 632 1997 771 2005 850 2019 849

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Heiko Schlosser became the local mayor of Hardert on June 19, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 72.60% of the vote. Schlosser is the successor to Rainer Philippi, who did not run again.

coat of arms

Blazon : “The red coat of arms shows two obliquely crossed, overturned swords with silver blades and golden handles, the left one in the shape of three-quarters of a clover-leaf cross. On both sides there is a golden oak leaf with an outward-facing acorn and at the bottom a golden corn ear with two bent leaves. " The coat of arms was approved by the Koblenz district government in 1981 .

Justification of the coat of arms: The swords indicate the noble family of those von Hartenrode, from whom the place name Hardert is derived. They are also depicted on the seals of Heinrich von Hardert (1483) and Johann von Hardert (1523 and 1543). The oak leaves symbolize the abundance of forests and the ear of wheat the agriculture of the community. The colors red and gold are borrowed from the coat of arms of the counts, later princes of Wied, to whose territorial property Hardert belonged for a long time.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

• The B 256 runs west of the community and leads from Neuwied to Altenkirchen .
• The next motorway junction is Neuwied on the A3 .
• The closest train station is Neuwied train station , the next ICE train stations are Koblenz main train station and Montabaur train station on the Cologne-Rhine / Main high-speed line .

Web links

Commons : Hardert  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local parish Hardert

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ^ RW-Direkt: Constituent meeting in Hardert. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, official gazette of the Verbandsgemeinde Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach, edition 27/2019, accessed on March 9, 2020 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach, Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .