Hatten

Hatten is a common French, located in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace.

Geography

Hatten marks the beginning of in addition to-Forest in the north of the Low-Rhine, with the northern edge of the forest of Haguenau. The commune although located in the Plaine of Alsace has a relief of the collinaire type.

History

Second world war

In 1939, Hatten was on the Ligne Maginot and, by measure of precaution, the 1500 inhabitants of the village were evacuated with Châteauponsac in the the Limousin by the French authorities. They had had to leave behind them all that did not return in a bag. But by chance, the village had then not suffered and, as of 1940, the inhabitants of Hatten could return in Alsace then annexed by the Germans.

The December 13rd 1944, after 4 years of occupation, the village was released without engagements by the Americans and the inhabitants felt safe then.

But on January 1st 1945, the Germans started one their last offensives of the war, the Opération Nordwind, which aimed, inter alia, to reconquer Strasbourg. Hatten was then a required passage for the German armoured tanks and, during the battles of tanks which opposed to it German and Americans between the 8 and the January 20th, the village was almost entirely destroyed. Indeed, after 12 days of engagements, on the 365 houses which the village counted then, 350 were destroyed. 2500 soldiers as 83 civilians had found death there.

After the war, the village martyr was rebuilt.

Administration

Demography

provisional population for 2005: 1.893

Places and monuments

  • Museum of the shelter of Hatten.
  • Celtic Tumulus in forest of Hatten.
  • botanical Path and poetic path in forest of Hatten.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

External bonds

  • personal site on Hatten
  • Museum of the shelter of Hatten
  • Hatten on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Hatten on the site of INSEE
  • Hatten on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Hatten on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Hatten on Mapquest

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