Marktbreit

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Marktbreit
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Marktbreit
Marktbreit (Germany)
Marktbreit
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Bavaria
Admin. region Lower Franconia
District Kitzingen
Municipal assoc. Marktbreit
Mayor Erich Hegwein (CSU)
Basic statistics
Area 20.15 km² (7.8 sq mi)
Elevation 191 m  (627 ft)
Population 3,710  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 184 /km² (477 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate KT
Postal codes 97338–97340
Area code 09332
Website www.marktbreit.de

Coordinates: 49°39′0″N 10°10′0″E / 49.65, 10.16667

Marktbreit is a municipality in the district of Kitzingen in the Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken in Bavaria situated at the most southern point of the Main river. It is the birthplace of Alois Alzheimer who first identified the symptoms of what is now known as Alzheimer's Disease. With its Suburb Gnodstadt, Marktbreit has about 4,000 inhabitants (2004).

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It was first mentioned as "broite inferior" in a document of the count of Castell in 1266. It is very likely that there was a settlement for some hundred years at the delta of the Breitbach. In 1557, King Ferdinand allowed the settlement to hold markets, and the name Marktbreit was given to the small town. In the 17th and 18th century Marktbreit was an important marketplace because the shortest way to the Danube from the Main (which ends in the Rhine) starts in Marktbreit.

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