Hartheim am Rhein is a town in the
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald () is a (district) in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Fifty towns and municipalities with 133 settlements lie within the district. The district itself belongs to the region of Freiburg with the region of Sou ...
district,
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, 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 i ...
,
Germany
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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 is 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The Lorsch Codex (Chronicon Laureshamense, Lorscher Codex, Codex Laureshamensis) is an important historical document created between about 1175 to 1195 AD in the Lorsch Abbey, Monastery of Saint Nazarius in Lorsch, Germany. The codex is handwrit ...
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
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
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