Rheinau is located in the Upper Rhine River Plains directly on the Rhine and as such at the German-French border. The center of town is located immediately on the Rhine crossing to France and the southern borough of Linx is located not far from Kehl and Strasbourg.
Rheinau is made up of the boroughs of Freistett (Hauptort and administrative seat of Rheinau with city hall), Diersheim, Hausgereut, Helmlingen, Holzhausen, Honau, Linx, Memprechtshofen and Rheinbischofsheim.
Boroughs of Rheinau
Freistett
Freistett
Helmlingen
Memprechtshofen
Memprechtshofen
Rheinbischofsheim
HistoryEdit
The city of Rheinau was created during the Baden-Württemberg district reform in 1975 through the combination of the formerly independent communities of Freistett, Helmlingen, Memprechtshofen, Rheinbischofsheim, Hausgereut, Diersheim, Linx, Hohbühn, Holzhausen and Honau.[citation needed]
Local council (Elections in May 2014)Edit
SPD = 11 seats
IG Handel = 4 seats
CDU = 12 seats
Total = 27 seats
ChurchesEdit
Lutheran Church Rheinbischhofsheim: 56 m high, largest church in the area, built in 1876, remodeled in 1998
Heidenkirchl (in Freistett)
St. Nikolaus Church
Economy and infrastructureEdit
InfrastructureEdit
Rheinau is connected to Achern, Bühl and Kehl by bus lines and belongs to the Public Transportation Authority of the district of Ortenau.
ReferencesEdit
^Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 13 September 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2021" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2021] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2022.
External linksEdit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rheinau (Baden).
(in German) Official site of the city of Rheinau
(in German) Information about and images
(in German)Weberhaus
(in German)
October 15, 2023
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