Rheinhausen (Breisgau)

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '  N , 7 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Emmendingen
Height :	174 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22 km 2
Residents:	3845 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	175 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	79365
Area code :	07643
License plate :	EM
Community key :	08 3 16 053
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 95 79365 Rheinhausen
Website :	www.rheinhausen.de
Mayor :	Jürgen Louis
Location of the community Rheinhausen in the district of Emmendingen

Rheinhausen is a municipality in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

location

Rheinhausen is located in northern Breisgau on the Rhine. From here, the Taubergießen nature reserve , one of the largest nature reserves in Baden-Württemberg, extends down the Rhine .

Neighboring communities

Rheinhausen borders France to the west, Rust to the north and, further clockwise to the south, Ringsheim , Herbolzheim , Kenzingen and Weisweil .

Community structure

Rheinhausen consists of the formerly independent communities of Oberhausen and Niederhausen. The village of Niederhausen belongs to the former municipality of Niederhausen. The former municipality of Oberhausen includes the village of Oberhausen and the electrical overland control center (Mühlehof).

history

On the fertile loess soil between the districts of Oberhausen and Niederhausen in Gewann Rebbürgerfeld, people who lived from agriculture and fishing were already settled around 7,000 years ago . The vine bourgeois field people are among the first farmers to be archaeologically proven in Central Europe. Further archaeological findings also prove that the area was settled regularly in the subsequent period.

The founding of the settlements, to which the villages of Niederhausen and Oberhausen go back, fell to the 6th to 7th centuries when the Alemanni colonized the Breisgau. Niederhausen was first mentioned in a document in 861.

Since 1343 the parishes were fiefdoms in front of Austria and remained so with constantly changing local rulers until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . In 1805 Oberhausen and Niederhausen became Baden .

Until the Rhine was regulated and the Elz canalised in the 19th century, the places were regularly threatened by sometimes devastating floods . The hydraulic engineering measures improved this situation considerably, but led to a decline in fishing and navigation on the Rhine, which ultimately came to a practical standstill.

Town hall in the Oberhausen district

The communities were supplied with electricity for the first time in December 1906, Oberhausen on December 17th and Niederhausen on December 18th. The electricity was supplied by a small run-of-river power plant on the Elz. This power plant was previously used to drive the machines in a sewing silk factory.

The community Rheinhausen was formed on May 1, 1972 by the merger of the two communities Niederhausen and Oberhausen.

Religions

Rheinhausen is predominantly Roman Catholic . There are therefore Catholic parishes in both districts, and there is also the St. Michael Priory of the Society of St. Pius X. The Protestant believers are looked after from Weisweil .

politics

Administrative association

Rheinhausen belongs to the municipal administration association Kenzingen-Herbolzheim, which includes the cities of Kenzingen and Herbolzheim as well as the municipalities of Rheinhausen (Breisgau) and Weisweil .

Municipal council

The local elections on May 25, 2014 with a turnout of 59.6% (- 2.3) led to the following result:

CDU	41.4%	5 seats
Free voters	37.3%	4 seats
Free list of citizens	21.3%	3 seats

The distribution of seats has not changed since the 2009 election.

Town twinning

The municipality of Rheinhausen has been twinning with the Polish city of Wisła since October 28, 2006, and with the Alsatian municipality of Wittisheim since May 9, 2009 . The community also has a friendship with Tannenberg (Saxony) in the Ore Mountains.

education

Rheinhausen has a municipal two-class primary school in the Rheinhausen community center.

dishes

The community Rheinhausen belongs to the judicial district of the district court Kenzingen .

Authorities

In Rheinhausen-Niederhausen, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) operates a surveillance system for satellite reconnaissance near Europa-Park Rust, comparable to that in Schöningen . The clearly visible, large white satellite dishes around the inconspicuous low-rise building in the Rhine meadows have been standing on the edge of the forest since the early 1970s. The facility was camouflaged as the " Ionospheric Institute ", a fantasy name. The construction of the plant is said to have cost around 90 million DM (45 million euros). The federal government did not provide any official information on the system, as can be seen from a Bundestag printed paper from 1990. Since the announcement of the NSA scandal by Edward Snowden , the plant had fallen into the public discussion. As part of a transparency offensive, the system officially became a "BND station" on June 6, 2014 and received an official sign. What is being worked on there will remain a secret, as will other details about the facility. In February 2015, a journalist was granted access for the first time.

See also : BND branch office in Rheinhausen

Sons and daughters of the church

• Franz Joseph Merklin (1788–1857), born in Oberhausen, organ builder
• Joseph Merklin (* 1819–1905), born in Oberhausen, organ builder

literature

• Albert Köbele and Margarete Kirner: Ortssippenbuch Rheinhausen. Upper u. Niederhausen, Emmendingen district in Baden . With an introduction to local history by Anton Wild. Self-published by Köbele, Grafenhausen near Lahr 1975 (= Badische Ortssippenbücher 35)
• Dieter Ohr, Anton Wild, Michael Zängle: Weimar elections in two Baden villages in the Baden border region. The contribution of small-scale case studies to the explanation of the rise of the NSDAP , in: Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung (HSR) 17 (1992), No. 2 ( full text as PDF )
• Anton Wild (Ed.): The two Hüse am Rhin. Old photos of Oberhausen and Niederhausen . Kesselring, Emmendingen 1983, ISBN 3-922282-65-2

Web links

Commons : Rheinhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rheinhausen community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality . Volume IV: Freiburg administrative region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 , p. 245-246 .
3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 495 .
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg: Municipal council elections on May 25, 2014 Rheinhausen (Emmendingen district) , accessed on January 9, 2017
5. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: Snoopers without a nose: The BND - the uncanny power in the state . 3. Edition. Econ-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-430-18004-X , p. 227 .
6. ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from Ms. Teubner and the parliamentary group DIE GRÜNEN: Ionosphäreninstitut in Rheinhausen / Südbaden , BT-Drs. 11/7669
7. ^ Rheinhausen: BND makes listening station an official institution. Badische Zeitung, June 6, 2014, accessed on June 6, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Spies reveal known secret Stern.de, June 6, 2014.
9. ↑ Ionosphere Institute: BND listening post in Rheinhausen allows insights for the first time - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved February 11, 2015 .