Hattenhofen is a municipality in the district of

Göppingen Göppingen ( Swabian: ''Geppenge'' or ''Gebbenga'') is a town in southern Germany, part of the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg. It is the capital of the district Göppingen. Göppingen is home to the toy company Märklin, and it is the b ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

in southern

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Geographical location

Hattenhofen is located between

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

and

Ulm Ulm () is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Danube on the border with Bavaria. The city, which has an estimated population of more than 126,000 (2018), forms an urban district of its own (german: link=no, ...

in the foothills of the

Swabian Jura The Swabian Jura (german: Schwäbische Alb , more rarely ), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width. It is named after the region of ...

. The place is surrounded by numerous orchards.

Geology

The community is located on the

Black Jurassic The Black Jurassic or Black Jura (german: Schwarzer Jura) in earth history refers to the lowest of the three lithostratigraphic units of the South German Jurassic, the latter being understood not as a geographical, but a geological term in the sen ...

a fossil-rich layer of Posidonia shale, and is part of the in 1979 established excavation reserve fossils of

Holzmaden Holzmaden is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany that lies between Stuttgart and Ulm. Holzmaden is 4 km south-east from Kirchheim unter Teck and 19 km south-east of Esslingen am Neckar. The A 8 runs south from Holzmaden. The town an ...

Neighbouring

Neighboring towns are

Albershausen Albershausen is a municipality in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Location Albershausen is located between the lower Filstal and the Swabian Jura at the Butzbach, a small left tributary of the Fils. The vil ...

, Sparwiesen (district of Uhingen) Bezgenriet (District of Göppingen),

Zell unter Aichelberg Zell unter Aichelberg is a municipality in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Geographical location Between Stuttgart and Ulm, on the western edge of the district Göppingen, lies the municipality of Zell unter ...

, Schlierbach and

Ohmden Ohmden is a municipality in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Neighboring communities Neighboring municipalities are starting from North clockwise: Schlierbach, Hattenhofen, Zell unter Aichelberg , all district Göpp ...

. Ohmden belongs to district Esslingen, all others to district Göppingen.

Municipality arrangement

The municipality Hattenhofen includes the village Hattenhofen and the homestead Riedenhof as well as proofs of a former castle.

History

The first mention of the place was in 1275 in Liber decimationis, the tenth book of the Bishopric of Constance. Together with the county of Aichelberg Hattenhofen came from 1334 to 1339 to Württemberg. Until 1365 the place was pledged to the Lords of Lichtenstein. After temporary membership to the Oberamt Kirchheim Hattenhofen came in 1485 to the Oberamt Göppingen. The

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (80 ...

and the

plague Plague or The Plague may refer to: Agriculture, fauna, and medicine *Plague (disease), a disease caused by ''Yersinia pestis'' * An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural) * A pandemic caused by such a disease * A swarm of pes ...

also demanded in Hattenhofen their toll. Formerly of 600 inhabitants have survived to 1637 only 20. In 1938 the municipality was integrated to the Göppingen district. Together with the municipalities

Aichelberg Aichelberg is a municipality in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Aichelberg is between Stuttgart and Ulm at the ''Albaufstieg'', the slope of the Swabian Jura in 357–615 meters altitude. Characteristic of t ...

Bad Boll Bad Boll is a municipality in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History In 1321, the County of Württemberg purchased title over Bad Boll and came to possess it ''de jure'', but it was ''de facto'' still controlled by a ...

, Dürnau and Gammelshausen the place forms since 1970, the municipality administration unit of the area Bad Boll. Hattenhofen in the year 1683

Population Development

*Year Population *1837 1,004 *1907 971 *1939 879 *1950 1,373 *1970 1,714 *1983 2,671 *2005 3,004 *2010 2,933

Religions

Since the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

Hattenhofen is Protestant coined. Even today live predominantly Protestant Christians here. There is also a Roman Catholic and a New Apostolic congregation.

Council

The local elections on 25 May 2014 resulted in the following distribution of seats: *CDU 61.2% + 10.6% 7 seats (+1) *citizens community (Bürgergemeinschaft) 38.8% - 10.6% 5 seats (-1)

Crest

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms of Hattenhofen is: In red on green hill between two golden deciduous trees a silver house with pointed silver tile roof, closed door and two windows. The community led since 1916 an official seal with a coat of arms on which a silver Obereck, and a tree was displayed next to a house. The now distant Obereck stood for the counts of Aichelberg. House and tree stand for the word Hof, which puts in place names. It is therefore a so-called partly self-explaining crest. The coat of arms in its current form was officially awarded on 15 August 1959 by the Ministry of Interior. The local colors are white and red.

Notable people

* Georg Gallus (1927–2021), farmer, German politician FDP, Secretary of State at the Ministry of agriculture and forestry in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

* Georg Jauss (1867–1922), landscape, portrait and genre painte

* Emanuel Christoph Klüpfel (1712–1799) Archiv Zentralbibliothek der Landeskirche.Württembergische Kirchengeschichte Online
/ref> founder of

Almanach de Gotha The ''Almanach de Gotha'' (german: Gothaischer Hofkalender) is a directory of Europe's royalty and higher nobility, also including the major governmental, military and diplomatic corps, as well as statistical data by country. First published ...

From Hattenhofen also came the great-grandfather of the poet

Ludwig Uhland Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet, philologist and literary historian. Biography He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest i ...

and the grandmother of the poet

Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (, ; ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Part ...

References

External links

Internetpräsenz der Gemeinde
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