Lautertal (Odenwald)
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Location of Lautertal within Bergstraße district
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| Coordinates: 49°44′0″N 8°42′0″E / 49.73333°N 8.70000°ECoordinates: 49°44′0″N 8°42′0″E / 49.73333°N 8.70000°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Hesse | |
| Admin. region | Darmstadt | |
| District | Bergstraße | |
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| • Mayor | Jürgen Kaltwasser (SPD) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 30.76 km2 (11.88 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 200 m (700 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 7,201 | |
| • Density | 230/km2 (610/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 64686 | |
| Dialling codes | 06254, 06251 (Elmshausen) | |
| Vehicle registration | HP | |
| Website | www.lautertal.de | |
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Lautertal (Odenwald) is a community in the Bergstraße district in the Hessian Odenwald in Germany that came into being with the merger of several former communities.
The Lauter valley (also called the Lautertal in German) begins near the source of the brook called the Lauter, which is found on the Neunkircher Höhe (“Neunkirchen Heights”). The brook then runs first along a broad streambed, but then gets quite narrow and steep as it approaches the Bergstraße, where the brook’s name becomes the Winkelbach once it reaches Bensheim. Furthermore, the valley includes several peaks on both sides.
Lautertal borders in the north on the communities of Seeheim-Jugenheim and Modautal (Darmstadt-Dieburg), in the east on the town of Lindenfels, in the south on the community of Fürth and the town of Heppenheim and in the west on the town of Bensheim.
The community of Lautertal came into being through municipal reform on 1 January 1972. The formerly self-governing communities of Beedenkirchen, Elmshausen, Gadernheim, Lautern, Raidelbach, Reichenbach, Staffel and Wurzelbach merged voluntarily, but later the same year, the communities of Knoden and Schannenbach were forcibly merged with Lautertal, and so was Schmal-Beerbach in 1978.
Some of the individual constituent communities had their beginnings in Roman times and the Middle Ages (of a castle that supposedly once stood near Gadernheim, there is no trace today).
The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:
Jürgen Kaltwasser (SPD) has been Lautertal’s mayor since 1995.
The Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald is a local recreation area for many daytrippers from the heavily populated Frankfurt Rhine Main Region and Rhine Neckar Area. Besides the many local hiking trails, two European long-distance paths cross in Lautertal, E1 and E8
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