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Frammersbach
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Location of Frammersbach within Main-Spessart district
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Lower Franconia |
| District | Main-Spessart |
| Mayor | Franz Peter |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 19.20 km2 (7.41 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 246 m (807 ft) |
| Population | 4,523 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 236 /km2 (610 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | MSP |
| Postal code | 97833 |
| Area codes | 0 93 55 |
| Website | www.frammersbach.de |
Frammersbach is a market community in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.
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This state-recognized recreational centre lies between Würzburg und Aschaffenburg, in the middle of the Spessart Nature Park (Naturpark Spessart). The community has the following Gemarkungen (traditional rural cadastral areas): Frammersbach and Habichsthal.
There has been the odd find from the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. The locality was systematically settled at the time when the Franks took the land. The old tithe court of Frammersbach belonged to the Catholic parish of Lohrhaupten. In 1339, Frammersbach had its first documentary mention, and in 1553 it transferred to the Evangelical Church, only to return to the Catholic fold in 1605[2]. A window on the formerly important waggoners’ village is found in the Sechserbuch[3] – a book mainly about Frammersbach’s Feldgeschworene, the traditional boundary keepers who decided where the community’s limits were and were charged with marking them – which describes the state of affairs in a Spessart community in the waning years of the Middle Ages and the onset of the modern era, in particular the records of the village court’s rulings between 1572 and 1764. The former Electoral Mainz Amt passed along with the village in the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to Prince Primate von Dalberg’s newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg, with which it passed in 1814 (by this time it had become a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt) to Bavaria under the terms of the Treaties of Paris. In the 20th century, home tailoring became an important industry in Frammersbach, as did Alfons Müller-Wipperfürth’s clothing factory after the Second World War.
In 1975 came the amalgamation of Habichsthal. The main community itself comprises the Ortsteile of Herbertshain, Frammersbach, Hofreith and Schwartel.
The market community of Frammersbach has been involved in the Bund-Länder-Förderungsprogramm III - Stadtumbau West since 2006, within the framework of which the community core is to be overhauled between 2007 and 2012 on the groundwork laid by citizen participation. Since 2003 has come the creation of a community concept.
The market community of Frammersbach has grown into a commercial centre and has regional supply functions for the community of Partenstein lying to the south and the community of Flörsbachtal lying to the north, just across the boundary in Hesse as well as the community of Jossgrund. The feeder area of the lesser centre of Frammersbach is home to roughly 18,500 inhabitants. Frammersbach lies on the Partenstein-Frammersbach-Wiesen-Aschaffenburg regional development axis.
The community’s arms might be described thus: Per pale argent a waggoner vert and gules in chief a wheel of the first spoked of six and in base three closets Or.
The wheel is the Wheel of Mainz, and the closets (that is, narrow horizontal bars) are drawn from the arms borne by the Counts of Rieneck, which themselves go back to those borne by the Counts of Loon.
Through Frammersbach run Bundesstraße 276, going north-south, and Staatsstraße (State Road) 2305, going east-west.
The nearest Autobahn interchanges are:
Frammersbach is linked to local transport on weekdays through the following bus routes:
Frammersbach has no direct link to the DB railway network. The nearest railway station is at Partenstein, 5 km away. Railway goods transport is handled through the station at Lohr am Main, 13 km away. Both stations lie on DB’s Nuremberg-Frankfurt mainline.
The nearest airport is Frankfurt Airport, which can be reached on the A 3 or the A 66. The distance is about 80 km, while Nuremberg Airport lies roughly 160 km away.
In Frammersbach 45 local clubs are currently active.
The latter place is home to descendants of emigrants from Frammersbach who still speak a dialect of German rather like the one spoken in Frammersbach[4].
This is a sponsorship arrangement initiated on 14 May 1977 by former citizens from St. Jochimsthal’s (now called Jáchymov) outlying centre of Dürnberg (now called Suchá) who after being driven out of their old homeland came to live in Frammersbach. Both regions were protected forests (Bannwälder) where one could settle only on the edges. In both areas was an Eselsweg (“ass’s way”) and in each was a village with a greater than average number of people working in goods transport, Frammersbach in the Spessart and Reischdorf (now called Rusová) in the Ore Mountains.
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