Hasborn is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a

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belonging to a ''

Verbandsgemeinde A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns. Rhineland- ...

'', a kind of collective municipality – in the

Bernkastel-Wittlich Bernkastel-Wittlich (German: ''Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich'') is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Vulkaneifel, Cochem-Zell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Birkenfeld, Trier-Saarbur ...

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Geography

The municipality lies in the

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– indeed in the heights of the

Vulkaneifel Vulkaneifel () is a district (''Kreis'') in the northwest of the state Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the least densely populated district in the state and the fourth most sparsely populated district in Germany. The administrative centre of ...

– and belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde''

Wittlich-Land Wittlich-Land is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located around the town Wittlich, which is the seat of Wittlich-Land, but not part of the ''Verbandsgem ...

History

In 1341, Hasborn had its first documentary mention in a document from Prince-Archbishop-Elector Balduin. The name is interpreted thus: ''Born'' means “

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” (cognate with the

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“bourne”), while the first syllable is from a

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name, Hasso, all of which means that the municipality's name means “Hasso’s Spring”. The village grew out of a farm that that Frank set up near where the former smithy, which was originally (until 1775) a church, later was. Running by this spring was once an old

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road whose remnants can still be seen in a deep holloway known as ''der Holg'' (the standard

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word for holloway is ''Hohlweg''). Given this, Hasso's farm might also have been an inn at which travellers rested or changed horses. Indeed, in later times, at what is today the Hotel Thomas, postal coach horses on the Koblenz-Trier stretch of the road were changed. Another origin of Hasborn is believed to have lain in the now long vanished village of Ritzeroth, which supposedly lay in a side valley of the Sammetbach along what is now the road to Oberscheidweiler. The village's existence has only been handed down orally. It might have died out in the

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during the

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. Today only the cadastral name “Reizat” recalls this vanished village. Beginning in 1794, Hasborn lay under

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rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

at the

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. Since 1947, it has been part of the then newly founded

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Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by

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Coat of arms

The municipality's

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might be described thus: Per fess, Or a demi-eagle displayed sable armed and langued gules, and azure an oak sprig embowed couped in sinister, fructed of one and leafed of three, all of the first.

Culture and sightseeing

Natural monuments

Hasborn Sour Spring

In the Sammetbach valley between Hasborn and Oberscheidweiler, right on the bank of the Sammetbach, lies the ''Hasborner Sauerbrunnen'' (“Hasborn Sour Spring”), a

emerging from, and also encased in,

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stone. The springwater is brown in colour and tastes sourish. Responsible for the colour is dissolved

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, and for the taste,

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(CO₂) of volcanic origin.

Oak grove

The oak grove is a stand of oaktrees in the middle of Hasborn almost 400 years old that is unique in Germany. The local lore has it that it came to be during the

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when marauding bands made it impossible for the farmers to drive their swine to pasture in the surrounding oak forests. Instead, the villagers gathered acorns together in the woods and then cast them at the edge of the village to the animals as fodder. Some acorns were worked into the ground by the creatures, leading to growth.

Schanzley

The Schanzley is a steep crag high over the Sammetbach valley lying deep in the forest and therefore hard to find.

Neuglück coppermine

At the municipal limit with Willwerscheid is found an old, disused coppermine called Neuglück. The entrance is barred by a gate in the mountain, but one can see into the gallery.

Buildings

''Alte Kapelle Sankt Rochus''

Saint Roch's Old Chapel (''Alte Kapelle Sankt Rochus'') has a high altar from about 1700 (Dehio). It is a former parish church from 1775 with Stations of the Cross. In 1967 it was deconsecrated and in 1997 and 1998 it underwent renovation both inside and outside by the ''Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz'' (“German Monument Protection Foundation”). Today it is a cultural centre used for events such as exhibitions, concerts, readings and theatre.

''Neue Kirche Sankt Rochus''

Saint Roch's New Church (''Neue Kirche Sankt Rochus'') is a new, modern church with a tent roof in the old oak grove. It was consecrated in 1968. The architect was Böhr from Trier. It has a great

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built by Alfred Führer that was once found in

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Hasborn Mill

The Hasborn Mill (''Hasborner Mühle''), standing on the Sammetbach and used until 1957 as a flour mill, has stood empty for the last few years.

Woodyard

In Hasborn is found the Rhineland-Palatinate State Forests’ high-grade woodyard. In a broad area, all high-grade wood from far around is kept for inspection and auction. The way to the yard branches off the road to Niederöfflingen or the Maare-Moselle Cycle Path (''Maare-Mosel-Radweg'') and is signposted.

Photovoltaic complex

In Hasborn is found one of Rhineland-Palatinate's biggest photovoltaic complexes. In 2008, in an area of 23 ha, state-of-the-art elements were installed, right next to the high-grade woodyard.

Sport

At the DJK Hasborn e.V., a sport club with more than 500 members,

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and

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are practised. In Hasborn are found a grass football pitch, a training square, a big, multipurpose sport hall and a

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alley at the Hotel Thomas. Moreover, the Maare-Moselle Cycle Path (''Maare-Mosel-Radweg'') runs along the old disused Eifelbahn (

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) alignment through the municipality.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

By way of the Hasborn interchange, there is a direct link to the

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A 1. Through Hasborn runs ''Landesstraße'' (State Road) 52, the old linking road between Trier and Koblenz. Buses run to

Wittlich The town of Wittlich (; Moselle Franconian: ''Wittlech'') is the seat of the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Its historic town centre and the beauty of the surrounding countryside make the town a centre for tourism in ...

and

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Education

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Hasborn-Greimerath * six-class

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attended by children from all surrounding villages.

Notable people

Sons and daughters of the town: * Hermann Simon (1947– ), entrepreneur, management thinker, professor of economics *

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(1980), artist and professor for communication design

References

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