Hazel (bathing)

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	Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '  N , 7 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Loerrach
Height :	425 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.67 km 2
Residents:	1108 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	95 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	79686
Area code :	07762
License plate :	LÖ
Community key :	08 3 36 034
Address of the municipal administration:	Hofstrasse 2 79686 Hasel
Website :	www.gemeinde-hasel.de
Mayor :	Helmut Kima
Location of the municipality of Hasel in the district of Lörrach

Hasel is a municipality in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg . The community is affiliated to the agreed administrative community Schopfheim-Maulburg-Hausen-Hasel .

geography

Geographical location

Hasel is located on the southern edge of the Black Forest in the Haseltal between the valleys of the Wiese and the Wehra .

Neighboring communities

The community borders in the south on the town of Wehr in the district of Waldshut and is otherwise surrounded by the area of ​​the town of Schopfheim .

Community structure

The municipality Hasel includes the villages Hasel and Glashütten and the houses Altmatt and Hasel train station. The Eichenbrunnenhof desert is located in the municipality .

history

Hasel was first mentioned as Hasalaho in a document from the St. Gallen monastery from 820 . Various ecclesiastical and secular rulers had rights in the village until it became the margraviate of Baden in 1503 .

politics

Town hall Hasel

Municipal council

The municipal council in Hasel has 10 members. It consists of the voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, the local council was elected by majority vote. Majority voting takes place if no or only one nomination has been submitted. The applicants with the highest number of votes are then elected. The turnout was 61.3% (2014: 54.4%).

administration

Since February 1971, the municipality of Hasel has been part of an agreed administrative community with the city of Schopfheim.

mayor

In October 2014 Helmut Kima was re-elected.

Culture and sights

Natural monuments

The Erdmannshöhle in Hasel is one of the oldest stalactite caves in Germany. Its total length is more than two kilometers, the part accessible to visitors is 360 meters long. In the stalactite cave there is one of the largest and oldest stalactites in Germany, which is over four meters high and over two meters thick at the base. Its age is estimated to be more than 135,000 years. The name Erdmannshöhle goes back to the legendary meerkats and Erdweibchen, who are said to have lived here once and have found their place in numerous legends and stories (including the local poet Johann Peter Hebel).

Architectural monuments

The Evangelical Church Hasel was built in 1779. A baptismal font dates back to 1627 from a previous building documented as early as 1275.

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  Erdmannshöhle

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  Protestant church

art

The Hasel Art Forum, founded in 1981 by Peter Grüninger , has so far brought over 300 exhibitions by regional, national and international artists to Hasel. The Kunstforum has been located in the Hotel Erdmannshöhle since 1998.

Economy and Infrastructure

East portal of the Fahrnau tunnel in Hasel

economy

There is agriculture, trade, three restaurants and, thanks to the cave, some tourism in Hasel.

traffic

The place was connected to the rail network via the Wehratalbahn ( Schopfheim - Bad Säckingen ) until 1971. A reactivation of the route is currently planned. Hasel has a good connection to the Bad Säckingen-Schopfheim bus service.

A little less than a kilometer south of Hasel, the federal highway 518 runs , which provides a connection to Wehr and Schwörstadt to the south and to Schopfheim to the west via the Eichener Höhe .

education

Hasel has a Protestant kindergarten and a primary school. There are secondary schools in Wehr (Realschule) four kilometers away and in Schopfheim (Gymnasium) seven kilometers away.

Personalities

Kai Saaler during the 2019 Guinness Record attempt

Sports

• Kai Saaler (* 1986) is an ultra mountain biker who is both world champion and European champion in 12 and 24 hour mountain biking . In 2019 he organized a 24-hour MTB Guinness Book record attempt, in which he climbed 9,774.19 meters in altitude within 12 hours and 17,391.71 meters in altitude on a mountain bike on unpaved roads within 24 hours. With the event he wanted to draw attention to the nervous disease multiple sclerosis and collect donations. The event thrilled more than 2000 spectators. Together with his supervisory team, he founded the non-profit association KS Endurance eV.

literature

• Helmut Kima: Hasel 2005 - A village remembers its past. In: Das Markgräflerland, Volume 2/2005, pp. 5–9 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
• Christopher Schmidberger: Hasel (LÖ). In Alfons Zettler, Thomas Zotz : The castles in medieval Breisgau, II Southern part. Halbband A-K . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-7366-5 , pp. 255-262
• Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Tübingen and Leipzig, 1901, fifth volume - Lörrach district; Pp. 181-182 online
• Carl Gustav Fecht : The Grand Duke. Baden districts Waldshut, Säckingen, Lörrach, Schopfheim. Gutsch, Lörrach and Waldshut 1859, pp. 482–491
• Heinrich Weidner: History of hazel and glassworks. Weir 1833
• Heinrich Weidner: The village picture of Hasel around 1570. In: Das Markgräflerland, Heft 3 (1931/32), pp. 87–91, digitized version of the Freiburg University Library

Web links

Commons : Hazel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kathrin Blum: The people from Hasler go in two directions. In: Badische Zeitung of June 28, 2008, accessed June 30, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VI: Freiburg region Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 . Pp. 887-888
3. ↑ Preliminary results of the 2019 municipal council elections at the State Statistical Office
4. ↑ https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/hasel/
5. ^ KS Endurance. Retrieved February 18, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Guinness book record attempt by Kai Saaler: 10,000 vertical meters in half a day! In: MTB-News.de. December 13, 2019, accessed on February 18, 2020 (German).