Hardt (Westerwald)

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Coat of arms of the local community Hardt
Hardt (Westerwald)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '  N , 7 ° 55'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Height : 410 m above sea level NHN
Area : 1.88 km 2
Residents: 456 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 243 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56472
Area code : 02661
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 234
Association administration address: Kirburger Strasse 4
56470 Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Website : www.hardt-westerwald.de
Mayoress : Gabriele Greis
Location of the local community Hardt in the Westerwaldkreis
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Hardt (dialect: Hoord ) is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) community .

Geographical location

The community is located in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen . The nest , which belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Sieg , forms the southern border of the municipality.

The Hardtermühle, south of the village, is in the municipality of Hahn near Marienberg .

history

Hardt was first mentioned in a document in 1332 in connection with the Hardtermühle . The place name is derived from the Old High German hart (= "forest height" or "forest slope"). In the district, presumably in the ravine to Erbach , was the place Gilhain or Gielhayn , which disappeared after 1440 (ahd. Gil = "narrow valley", "gorge"). In 1492 there was still the hamlet "Zur Höhe".

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 155
1835 220
1871 183
1905 193
1939 238
1950 286
year Residents
1961 298
1970 356
1987 351
1997 428
2005 434
2019 456

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Gabriele Greis became the local mayor of Hardt in summer 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was elected for five years with 67.53% of the vote.

Gabriele Greis' predecessor, Ursula Martain, had held the office for ten years.

Culture and sights

→ see list of cultural monuments in Hardt (Westerwald)

traffic

literature

  • Local community Hardt (ed.): 650 years Hardt. 1332-1982. A Westerwald community through the ages , Hardt 1982.
  • Daniel Schneider: The mill trade in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 59 (2016), pp. 219–237.

Web links

Commons : Hardt  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Hermann Josef Hucke: Place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as Ortsneckereien ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), 2010, page 3 (PDF; 132 kB).
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 72 (PDF; 3 MB).
  4. ↑ See Daniel Schneider: The mill trade in the County of Sayn-Altenkirchen, pp. 219–239.
  5. ↑ Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Hardt (Ed.): 75 years Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Hardt 1932-2007, Hardt 2007.
  6. ^ E. Heyn: Der Westerwald, 1893.
  7. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
  9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Marienberg, Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Nadja Hoffmann-Heidrich: Joy in Hardt: Two applicants want to be local boss. Westerwälder Zeitung, February 27, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2020 .