Höhr-Grenzhausen

Hatton of Oberhausen is a city in the Westerwald district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It is a center of the ceramic industry in Kannenbäckerland College of ceramic or school for Ceramic design, hence the nickname " Kannenbacker city ".

The city belongs to the municipality of the same name, which has its headquarters in the city. Hatton of Hausen is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a secondary center in accordance with state planning.

  • 3.1 Museums
  • 3.2 Structures
  • 3.3 Sport
  • 4.1 Economics
  • 4.2 Tourism
  • 4.3 cycle paths
  • 5.1 colleges
  • 5.2 schools
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

History

The present city of Hatton of Hausen was formed on 1 April 1936 the previously independent municipalities Höhr, border Hausen and border adjustment. At the same time this new church was raised to town.

The development of the population of Hatton of Hausen based on the current urban area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

City ​​council

The council Hatton of Hausen consists of 24 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city.

Allocation of seats in the elected City Council:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: " The coat of arms shows in silver three blue cans Frankfurt ".

Twinning

Hatton of Hausen is twinned with the Italian city Laigueglia / Riviera (since 1972) and the French city of Semur-en-Auxois/Burgund (since 1987).

Culture and sights

Museums

In the city there are Westerwald Ceramics Museum and a museum of local history.

Structures

  • Evangelical Church
  • Castle BTA
  • Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site Upper Germanic - Rhaetian Limes on the city Main article fortlet Ferbach.

Sports

In the district of border adjustment Hatton of Hausen of table tennis Bundesliga club TTC Grenzau is at home, as is here the Rhineland-Palatinate Olympiastützpunkt table tennis.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

The largest employer in Hatton of Hausen is the company Steuler KCH with about 600 employees at Hatton of Hausen site (about 2000 worldwide). Particular steuler produces specialty ceramics for use in industrial and systems engineering. Besides Steuler are still about 20 small ceramic companies, mostly family-owned, in Hatton of Hausen resident who mostly specialized in artistic ceramics. Once a year (June) will be held one of the largest ceramic markets in Germany in Hatton of Hausen.

The Association of Refractory Manufacturers' Association will move from Bonn to a new building near the University of Applied Sciences in Hatton of Hausen.

Furthermore, the RASTAL GmbH & Co. KG ( 500 employees in Hatton of Hausen ) and SAHM GmbH Co. KG (approx. 250 employees at the main plant in Hatton of Hausen ) are based in Hatton of Hausen. Both companies are decorated as a manufacturer of drinking vessels, especially beer glasses, active.

In addition, the software company IBS with 175 employees at its headquarters is based in Hatton of Hausen. Furthermore, resident in Höhr district is the publisher Linus Wittich. He is in all of Rhineland-Palatinate and Germany out of office and newsletters. In the publishing group about 900 employees.

Tourism

Hatton of Hausen has two large four -star hotels that bring it together with other private rooms and apartments to over 110,000 overnight stays per year. Most tourists visit Hatton of Hausen because of the ceramic enterprises, Ceramics Museum or the many Wander-/Rad- and Nordic walking trails in the area.

Cycle paths

Through Hatton of Hausen leads the German Limes Cycle Route. This follows the Upper Germanic - Rhaetian Limes 818 km from Bad Hönningen am Rhein to Regensburg on the Danube.

Education

Universities

In Hatton of Hausen is a campus of the University of Koblenz, which specializes specifically to the fields of Artistic Ceramics and Materials Engineering Glass and Ceramics and future Bachelors or Masters of Engineering formed.

Train

Hatton of Hausen has with the Goethe- school through primary school. Furthermore, find a school center, which houses the Ernst -Barlach -Realschule plus and grammar school in Kannenbäckerland. Also available is the Schiller School a special school for children with learning difficulties.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Friedrich Held (1801-1878) - Bailiff and Member of Parliament
  • Hermann Geisen (1899-1943), communist, fought in Spain and resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Hermann Hoffmann (1922-2010), designer and farmer
  • Wendelin Steel (1922-2000), Potter
  • Paul Zimmer Ling (1927-2006), artist ( ceramics)
  • Karlheinz Zöller (1928-2005), flutist
  • Manfred Reimann ( b. 1928 ), politician ( SPD)
  • Heiner Balzar (* 1937), Potter
  • Klaus Budewig ( b. 1941 ), President of the Saxon Constitutional Court
  • Vera Vehring ( b. 1944 ), artist ( ceramics)
  • Anke Maggauer Cherry (* 1948), German poet and Aphoristikerin
  • Mäurer Ulrich ( born 1951 ), lawyer and politician (SPD )
  • Klaus Norbert Steuler, until January 2011, Klaus Norbert Steuler 23 years Steuler industry works as Managing Director
  • Georg Steuler, founded in 1908, the family Steuler industry works. He invented the first acid-resistant Glaskitt world. In 1910 Steuler began with the production of acid-resistant and refractory brick qualities in Hatton of living, where the headquarters of the company is today.
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