Hallgarten (Rheingau)

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Hall overlooking garden with Rhine from the edge of the forest

Hall Garden is a district of Oestrich- Winkel in the Rheingau -Taunus-Kreis in Hesse. Its name originated from the old term Hagadun.

Geography

Hall garden is one of the Rheingau height places that do not lie on the Rhine, but below the clearing limit of the Taunus forests. It is surrounded on all sides as a wine village surrounded by vineyards and offers a panoramic view south to Thunder Mountain and to the Odenwald mountain road.

Above Hall Garden is the Hallgarter pliers ( 580.5 m above sea level. NN ) with the 1909 built lookout tower with the best view of the Rheingau, when the tower would be accessible. The upstream mountain seems higher than the highest point of the Rheingau, the Cold hostel ( 619.3 m), a wooded knoll. The Groves of Hall garden close the Mapper Schanze as only remaining door anchorage of the Rheingau Gebücks with a rich and in the hinterland forest to the upper Ernst Bach.

History

Hall garden was probably from an estate of the monastery of Eberbach. The Hallgarter Parish of the Assumption is known through the " Schröter - Madonna" ( Madonna of the Shard ). The clay sculpture may have been donated by the residents of the place wine Schrötern 1415.

The place is with the entire Rheingau part of kurmainzischen territory. After dissolution of the electorate went to the place in 1803 at Nassau- Usingen and belonged to the time of the Duchy of Nassau to the Official Eltville.

Thanks Johann Adam von Itzstein and the meetings of its Hall garden circle of political and social variables 1832-1847, Hall garden is of political and historical role. They met at the winery Itzsteins in Hall Garden for discussing political issues. To this circle belonged opposition among other Hoffmann von Faller life in the Garden Hall wrote in 1847 a Itzstein biography. The Hallgartener circle is also seen as a nucleus of the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848 in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church.

After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau Hall Garden by Prussia in 1867 assigned to the Rheingau district in the administrative district of Wiesbaden.

By law, and against the will of the population Hall garden was incorporated on 1 January 1977 in the city Oestrich angle. It is the only Oestrich- Winkel district for which there is a local district with a town council.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Hall garden contains a pair of pliers in conjunction with a Traubenperkel as privates figure.

Personalities

With Hall garden connected:

• Johann Adam von Itzstein (1775-1855), liberal politician, died in Hall garden.
• Franz Kneer (1895-1935), German pilot and sportsman, was killed with him flown by Junkers Ju 52 on 25 April in a 1935 crash on the Hallgarter pliers fatal.
• Petra Müller- Klepper (* 1957), CDU politician, member of the Hessian Parliament and Secretary of State, born in Hall Garden