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Rattenharz is a district of Lorch at an altitude of 469 m above the southern slope of the Remstal and previously belonged to the community of Waldhausen, which existed until 1971 . Rattenharz has 239 inhabitants.
Place name
The following explanations exist for the place name, which is spoken in the local dialect "Rautaharz":
- The spelling Rattenhart used when it was first mentioned in 1441 suggests a combination of the animal name "rat" and the forest name Hart .
- The explanation is widespread that it is a false condemnation of "Roter Hart ".
- The spelling Rattenhart , which has been documented since 1511, is supposed to interpret the place as a court property of a person "Rotenhart" / "Rattenhart".
geography
The village extends as a street village for around 800 m along the Kaiserstraße , which continues across the Schurwald as Kaisersträßle . A historical reference of this street to Hohenstaufen emperors, as the orientation towards the three Kaiserberg mountains and the name might suggest, is not verifiable. There are two short side streets: Staibengasse and Strutweg .
history
Rattenharz probably emerged as a clearing settlement in the late expansion period . The original cell was west of today's Staibengasse. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1441.
Rattenharz was under the Plüderhausen mayor's office until 1806 , after which it belonged to the Waldhausen community. Rat resin was the subject of relatively strong migration , which led to an above-average professional diversity as early as the 19th century. The description of the Oberamt Welzheim from 1845 mentions that the population of Rattenharz had risen from 87 to 203 since 1774. A local school had recently been given up and the students were housed in the neighboring Unterkirneck . A similar process was repeated more than 100 years later: in 1967 they started again to accommodate Rattenharz pupils in the Unterirneck district of Lorch.
Facilities
Since funerals in the Rattenharz cemetery had to be held outdoors and without ringing bells, the community of Waldhausen decided in 1955 to build a cemetery chapel on the basis of an initiative from the citizens of Rattenharz. The chapel was planned in 1957 by Stuttgart professor Paul Heim at a construction cost of 32,500 marks and inaugurated on Whit Monday, May 18, 1959. The chapel contains a meeting room and a funeral cell . The bell of the old Waldhäuser Church, which was demolished at the time, was used as the bell. One year after the inauguration, the chapel was also used as a proper worship room. An organ was installed around 1984. The owner of the building, which is considered the landmark of the place, is the civil parish. The Evangelical Church Community of Waldhausen, which belongs to the Schwäbisch Gmünd church district, holds church services every first and third Sunday of the month.
Other public facilities in Rattenharz today are the gymnasium belonging to the TSV Rattenharz and a playground. TSV Rattenharz is responsible for sporting and cultural life and has around 300 members, more than the town's inhabitants.
A bus line operated by Omnibusverkehr Göppingen , which runs through the neighboring towns of Wäschenbeuren and Waldhausen, connects Rattenharz with Göppingen and Lorch.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rattenharz on data & facts on the website of the city of Lorch.
- ↑ City of Lorch: Data & Facts , accessed on December 18, 2019.
- ^ Rattenharz , Stadt Lorch, accessed January 9, 2012.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , 800 Years of Waldhausen, Lorch, 1981, p. 189 f.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 36.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 188.
- ↑ a b Research by the historian and Lorcher city archivist Simon M. Haag according to professional diversity and farming village , Gmünder Tagespost of November 29, 2011.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 29 f.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 129.
- ↑ 50 Years of the Rattenharz Chapel (PDF; 4.3 MB), accessed June 22, 2010.
- ^ Association history , TSV Rattenharz, accessed December 28, 2019.
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 50.66 " N , 9 ° 39 ′ 41.51" E