Hahn, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Location of Hahn within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
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| Coordinates: 49°57′43″N 7°16′19″E / 49.96194°N 7.27194°ECoordinates: 49°57′43″N 7°16′19″E / 49.96194°N 7.27194°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis | |
| Municipal assoc. | Kirchberg | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Wolfgang Schmidt | |
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| • Total | 5.29 km2 (2.04 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 472 m (1,549 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 188 | |
| • Density | 36/km2 (92/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 56850 | |
| Dialling codes | 06543 | |
| Vehicle registration | SIM | |
| Website | www |
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Hahn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town. The name Hahn is well known as being the name shared with Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, which arose after 1993 from the United States Air Force’s Hahn Air Base once the Americans had withdrawn.
The municipality lies on a ridge in the part of the Hunsrück facing the Moselle on the watershed between the Nahe and the Moselle, and also on the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders). The Wilwersbach rises in Hahn.
Within Hahn’s municipal limits are traces of Roman and Frankish settlement. The placename Hahn, originally written Hagene (1120), and later also Haan, Han, Hane, and Hain, originally meant, according to the Rhenish toponym researcher Heinrich Dittmaier, “wattled fence”, then later “enclosed dwelling place”. In 1120, Hagene had its first documentary mention in connection with Lötzbeuren, Pünderich and Karden in a donation document made out to Mettlach Abbey. It was mentioned a second time about 1330 or 1335 in the Sponheim taxation register. Beginning in 1794, Hahn lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. After the Second World War, an air base was built on parts of the municipal area. This was converted for civil aviation in 1993 after the United States Air Force withdrew from the base. It is now called Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (or Flughafen Frankfurt-Hahn in German).
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