Lower Franconia

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Statistics
State:	Bavaria
Capital:	Würzburg
Area:	8,531.59 km²
Inhabitants:	1,341,481(12/2005)
pop. density:	157.23 inh./km²
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Lower Franconia (German Unterfranken) is one of the three administrative regions of Franconia in Bavaria (seven regions), Germany (22 regions in five Federal States, 11 Federal States are not subdivided into regions).

The district was formed in 1817 unter the name of Untermainkreis (Lower Main District) and renamed in 1837 as Unterfranken and Aschaffenburg (Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg). In 1933 the regional Nazi Gauleiter Otto Hellmuth insisted on renaming the district Mainfranken, but after 1945 the name Unterfranken was resurrected.

Unterfranken is the north-west part of Franconia and consists of three district-free cities ("Kreisfreie Städte") and nine country districts ("Landkreise").

1 Area and population
2 Historical country districts
3 Well known people
4 Education and start ups
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Area and population

City or District	Population (2005)		Area (km²)		Communities
City of Aschaffenburg	68,642	5.1%	62	0.7%	1	0.3%
City of Schweinfurt	54,273	4.0%	36	0.4%	1	0.3%
City of Würzburg	133,906	10.0%	88	1.0%	1	0.3%
Aschaffenburg	174,974	13.0%	699	8.2%	32	10.4%
Bad Kissingen	107,988	8.0%	1,137	13.3%	26	8.4%
Haßberge	87,607	6.5%	956	11.2%	26	8.4%
Kitzingen	89,501	6.7%	684	8.0%	31	10.1%
Main-Spessart	131,218	9.8%	1,322	15.5%	40	13.0%
Miltenberg	131,376	9.8%	716	8.4%	32	10.4%
Rhön-Grabfeld	86,094	6.4%	1,022	12.0%	37	12.0%
Schweinfurt	115,924	8.6%	842	9.9%	29	9.4%
Würzburg	159,978	11.9%	968	11.3%	52	16.9%
Total	1,341,481	100.0%	8,531	100.0%	308	100.0%

Historical population
1910	710,943
1939	844,732
1950	1,038,930
1961	1,089,983
1970	1,181,309
1987	1,202,711
2002	1,344,300
2004	1,344,629
2005	1,341,481

[edit] Historical country districts

Until the municipal reform ( "Kreisreform" ) in June 1972 Lower Franconia had 22 country districts, 16 of them were attached to the other six existing country districts Aschaffenburg, Bad Kissingen, Kitzingen, Miltenberg, Schweinfurt, Würzburg or united to one of the three new country districts Haßberge, Main-Spessart, Rhön-Grabfeld.

Old country district	Current district(s)
Alzenau	Aschaffenburg
Bad Brückenau	Bad Kissingen
Bad Neustadt/Saale	Rhön-Grabfeld
Ebern	Haßberge
Gemünden	Main-Spessart
Gerolzhofen	Schweinfurt, Kitzingen, Hassberge, Würzburg
Hammelburg	Bad Kissingen
Haßfurt	Haßberge
Hofheim/Unterfranken	Haßberge
Karlstadt	Main-Spessart
Königshofen	Rhön-Grabfeld
Lohr	Main-Spessart
Marktheidenfeld	Main-Spessart, Miltenberg, Würzburg
Mellrichstadt	Rhön-Grabfeld
Obernburg	Miltenberg
Ochsenfurt	Würzburg