Hartheim am Rhein is a town in the

Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald (french: Arrondissement de Brisgau-Haute-Forêt-Noire) is a (district) in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Fifty towns and municipalities with 133 settlements lie within the district. The district itself belon ...

district,

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with about 5000 inhabitants. The districts of Hartheim am Rhein are Bremgarten, Feldkirch and Hartheim. For the first time, Hartheim am Rhein ist referred to in the

Lorsch Codex The Lorsch Codex (Chronicon Laureshamense, Lorscher Codex, Codex Laureshamensis) is an important historical document created between about 1175 to 1195 AD in the Monastery of Saint Nazarius in Lorsch, Germany. The codex is handwritten in Caroli ...

in 772. In 2012, the name of the town was changed from ''Hartheim'' to ''Hartheim am Rhein''.

Local council (Gemeinderat)

Elections in May 2014: * Freie Wähler Württemberg (Free voters):28,8 %=5 seats * CDU: 27,6 %=4 seats * Für unsere Dörfer (FuD) (For our villages): 22,7 %=4 seats * Frauenliste Deutschland-Kommunale Frauenlisten (Women's list):11,9 %=2 seats * SPD 9,0 %=1 seat

Mayors

* 1946–1969: Josef Widmann * 1969–1982: Alfred Vonarb * 1982–2001: Erich Dilger († 29. Juli 2001) * 2002–2009: Martin Singler * 2010–2017: Kathrin Schönberger * since 2017: Stefan Ostermaier

References

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