Hattert

Hattert
Coat of arms
Hattert
Location of Hattert within Westerwaldkreis district
Coordinates: 50°40′02″N 7°46′09″E / 50.66722°N 7.76917°E / 50.66722; 7.76917Coordinates: 50°40′02″N 7°46′09″E / 50.66722°N 7.76917°E / 50.66722; 7.76917
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Hachenburg
Government
• Mayor	Horst Johanntokrax (SPD)
Area
• Total	11.52 km2 (4.45 sq mi)
Elevation	280 m (920 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,723
• Density	150/km2 (390/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	57644
Dialling codes	02662
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.hachenburg-vg.de

Hattert is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the biggest Ortsgemeinde in the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality.

Hattert lies between Hachenburg and Altenkirchen, on the so-called Altenkirchen Plateau (Altenkirchener Hochebene) in the “Further” Westerwald (Vorderwesterwald). The hollow called the Hatterter Grund stretches from an elevation of 265 m up to 349 m. The Rothenbach, which rises in Gehlert, flows through the Hatterter Grund. In Oberhattert it is fed by the Selbach and in Niederhattert by the Aggerbach, emptying into the Wied as the Hatterter Bach between Winkelbach and Hanwerth. Along the edge of the Hatterter Grund run Bundesstraßen 413 and 414, which meet near Hachenburg.

Hattert’s Ortsteile are Oberhattert, Mittelhattert, Niederhattert, Laad and Hütte.

With the help of Hattert’s historical names it is assumed that the community had already arisen by the 11th century. It is furthermore assumed that the settlement of Hattenrode grew out of a one-farm Frankish settlement. This part of Hattert later bore the field name Auf dem Frankenhof, and is still known as such by today’s inhabitants.

From 1180, the Count of Sayn held sway over the Hatterter Grund. The community’s first documentary mention has been dated to 13 December 1373 (the original document is found in the Hessian Hauptstaatsarchiv in Wiesbaden under the Akten-Nummer 74/484). As with most of the surrounding places, the name, or its historical forerunner, suggests a clearing settlement for which patches of forest were cleared of trees. In the Hatterter Grund arose the communities of Oberhattert, Mittelhattert, Niederhattert, Laad and Hütte.

The Hatterter Grund belonged to the parochial centres of Kroppach and Altstadt (the latter now an outlying centre of Hachenburg), whose common boundary was the Rothenbach. Thus, some of the little places here were assigned to Kroppach and others to Altstadt.