Althütte is a municipality of the Rems-Murr district in

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History

The modern municipality of Althütte was formed by the merging of the villages of Althütte and Sechselberg in 1971.

Geography

The municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of Althütte is located in the Rems-Murr district, in the German state of

. Althütte is physically located in the

Murrhardt Forest The Murrhardt Forest (german: Murrhardter Wald) in the Baden-Württemberg county of Rems-Murr-Kreis is part of the natural region known as the Swabian-Franconian Forest. It reaches a maximum height of . at 1:10,000 scale. A lower value of ...

, a region of the larger

Swabian-Franconian Forest The Swabian-Franconian Forest (german: Schwäbisch-Fränkischen Waldberge, also ''Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald'') is a mainly forested, deeply incised upland region, 1,187 km² in area and up to , in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg. It f ...

. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of

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(NN) to a low of NN. Portions of the Federally protected Hörschbachschlucht and

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are located in Althütte's municipal area.

Politics

Althütte has two boroughs (''Ortsteile''), and 16 villages: Fautspach, Gallenhof, Glaitenhof, Hahnenhof, Hörschhof, Hörschhöfer Sägmühle, Kallenberg, Klösterle, Lutzenberg, Nonnenmühle, Rottmannsberger Sägmühle, Schlichenhöfle, Schlichenweiler, Schöllhütte, Voggenhof, and Waldenweiler. Althütte is in an with the city of

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and the municipalities of

Allmersbach im Tal Allmersbach im Tal is a municipality in the Rems-Murr district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It belongs to the Stuttgart Region (''middle Neckar Region'' until 1992) and to the boundary area of the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region. History Al ...

, Aspach,

Auenwald Auenwald is a municipality in the district of Rems-Murr in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Twin town The twin town of Auenwald is: * Beaurepaire, Isère, France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily ...

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, Kirchberg an der Murr, Oppenweiler, and Weissach im Tal.

Coat of arms

Althütte's municipal

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displays two

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glassblowing pipes crossed over a field of

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. The coat of arms refers to the name Althütte and to Althütte's history of glassworking. This coat of arms was created from a proposal by the in 1924.

Transportation

Althütte is connected to Germany's network of roadways by its local ''

Landesstraße ''Landesstraßen'' (singular: ''Landesstraße'') are roads in Germany and Austria that are, as a rule, the responsibility of the respective German or Austrian federal state. The term may therefore be translated as "state road". They are roads ...

n'' and ''

Kreisstraße A Kreisstraße (literally: "district road" or "county road") is a class of road in Germany. It carries traffic between the towns and villages within a '' Kreis'' or district or between two neighbouring districts. In importance, the ''Kreisstraße ...

n''. Local public transportation is provided by the Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart.

References

External links

* (in German) {{Authority control Rems-Murr-Kreis Württemberg