Hargarten

Hargarten is a municipality in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. She is a member of the collective municipality.

Geography

The place is located in the western part of the Eifel, a few kilometers east of the state borders of Luxembourg and Belgium.

To Hargarten includes the living space Sonnenhof well as a few houses of the hamlet Gesotz.

71.9 % of its territory is used for agriculture, 23.4% are of forest existed (as of 2010 ).

Neighboring municipalities are Lascheid in the north, fire Scheid in the West, Plütscheid in the south, Lambert Mountain in the west.

History

By the end of the 18th century the village belonged to the condominium Pronsfeld, which was under the joint sovereignty of the Electorate of Trier and the Duchy of Luxembourg. After the annexation of the region by French revolutionary troops Hargarten 1795 was assigned to the Canton Arzfeld in the department of forests. Due to the decisions on the Congress of Vienna and the area thus Hargarten 1815 was awarded the Kingdom of Prussia. Under the Prussian administration Hargarten the community came in 1816 to the newly built circuit Prüm in the Trier region. She belonged to the mayor's Waxweiler.

The development of the population of the municipality Hargarten, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Hargarten consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman location.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " square of red with a silver reel and a golden ear and silver with a golden inseminated shallow blue flower and a green acorn. "

The coat of arms was approved on 21 July 2005 by the district administration of the district Bitburg- Prüm.

Economy and infrastructure

Hargarten is an agricultural municipality today. Since 1971, when still 21 farms were counted, the agricultural area of 183 ha to 98 ha ( 2010) has decreased, which were managed by three companies.

The place is located about 3 km east of the junction Waxweiler / Schoenecken the Federal Highway 60, which is accessible from the main road 33 from Hargarten from.