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Hausach

Coordinates: 48°17′07″N 08°10′47″E / 48.28528°N 8.17972°E / 48.28528; 8.17972
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Hausach
Coat of arms of Hausach
Location of Hausach within Ortenaukreis district
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Hausach is located in Germany
Hausach
Hausach
Hausach is located in Baden-Württemberg
Hausach
Hausach
Coordinates: 48°17′07″N 08°10′47″E / 48.28528°N 8.17972°E / 48.28528; 8.17972
CountryGermany
StateBaden-Württemberg
Admin. regionFreiburg
DistrictOrtenaukreis
Area
 • Total36.07 km2 (13.93 sq mi)
Elevation
238 m (781 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[1]
 • Total5,788
 • Density160/km2 (420/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
77756
Dialling codes07831
Vehicle registrationOG, BH, KEL, LR, WOL
Websitewww.hausach.de

Hausach (German: [ˈhaʊzax] ; Low Alemannic: Huusä) is a city in the Ortenaukreis, in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

History

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Hausach was founded in the 13th century, below Husen Castle. In the 14th century, it became a possession of the County of Fürstenberg, who gave the town its charter and maintained a residence in it. In 1806, Hausach was mediatized to the Grand Duchy of Baden. The town was assigned in 1813 to the district of Haslach, but in 1857 was reassigned to the district of Wolfach. In 1939, that district was reorganized as Landkreis Wolfach [de]. On 1 Jul 1971, the town of Einbach was incorporated into Hausach. As a result of the 1973 Baden-Württemberg district reform [de], Hausach was assigned to the Ortenau district.[2]

Geography

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The township (Stadt) of Hausach is part of the Ortenau district of Baden-Württemberg, in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is physically located in the Central Black Forest, at the center of the valley of the Kinzig. The elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of 945 meters (3,100 ft) Normalnull (NN) at the Brandenkopf to a low of 221 meters (725 ft) NN along the Kinzig.[2]

Politics

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Hausach has two boroughs (Stadtteile): Hausach and Einbach.[2]

The town council has 18 seats with a municipal election being held every 5 years.

Party 2014[3] 2019[4] 2024[5]
CDU 6 seats 6 seats 5 seats
SPD 4 seats 3 seats 3 seats
FW 6 seats 6 seats 8 seats
Greens 2 seats 3 seats 2 seats

Hausach twinned with Arbois, France in 1974. The 45th anniversary of that twinning was celebrated by a visit of 37 German functionaries to Arbois on 15 October 2019.[6]

Mayor

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The mayor of Hausach is Wolfgang Hermann, who was elected in 2017.

Term[7][8] Mayor Notes
1811–1823 Severin Wernhöre
1823–1827 Joachim Sattler
1849 Rudolf Streit Named "Mayor of the Revolutionaries" from May to July 1849
1827–1856 Johann Georg Waidele
1856-1865 Josef Buchholz
1865–1870 Hermann Becherer
1870–1882 Constantin Schmid
1882–1888 Valentin Dorner
1888–1903 Johann Nepomuk Hämmerle
1903–1917 Gustav Adolf Rist
1917–1918 Fidel Renner
1919–1933 Karl Moog
1933–1934 Emil Wimmer
1934–1935 Alfred Haas
1935–1945 Fritz Kölmel
1945 Josef Jäckle Named "emergency mayor" after World War Two
1945–1946 Paul Rist
1945–1946 Otto Heizmann
1946–1969 Eugen Heizmann
1969–1993 Manfred Kienzle
1993–2001 Gerhard Scharf
2001–2017 Manfred Wöhrle
Since 2017 Wolfgang Hermann

Coat of Arms

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Hausach's coat of arms displays half-timber framework of a gable in red on a field of white. The oldest town seals used in Hausach, dating back to 1453, used a house of timber, then stone, and then from 1655 of a half-timber design. This last symbol became the one permanently associated with Hausach by 1771.[2]

Demographics

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As of mid-2023, Hausach had a population of 5,800. 865 of these people (~1.5%) were foreigners while the other 4,935 were German.

Population of Hausach from 1800 to 2023
Year 1800 1900 1925 1970 1972 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Population 800 1,665 2,227 4,450 5,182 5,815 5,779 5,746 5,715 5,746 5,809 5,768 5,775 5,759 5,737 5,788 5,800

Transportation

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Hausach is served by the Kinzig Valley Railway and the Black Forest Railway and is connected to Germany's network of Federal highways by Bundesstraße 33 [de].[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Hausach". LEO-BW (in German). Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Wahlergebnis Hausach Nachrichten der Ortenau - Offenburger Tageblatt". 2017-02-18. Archived from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  4. ^ Wahlergebnis und Wahlbeteiligung - Gemeinderatswahl 2019. (2020, January 16). Hausach. Retrieved June 12, 2024, from https://www.hausach.de/fileadmin/Dateien/Website/Dateien/Rathaus_Service/Wahlen/Wahlergebnis_und_Wahlbeteiligung_Gemeinderatswahl_2019.pdf.
  5. ^ "Wahlenübersicht". wahlergebnisse.komm.one. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  6. ^ "Arbois und Hausach im Herzen". Schwarzwälder Bote (in German). 15 October 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Bürgermeister Hausach". www.freie-waehler-hausach.de. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  8. ^ Hausacher Heimatbrief 2008 [Hausach Home Letter 2008] (in German). Hausach: Burgblick Hausach. 2008. pp. 50–53.
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