Frammersbach

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Frammersbach

Coat of arms
Frammersbach
Coordinates: 50°4′N 9°28′E / 50.067°N 9.467°E / 50.067; 9.467Coordinates: 50°4′N 9°28′E / 50.067°N 9.467°E / 50.067; 9.467
Country Germany
State Bavaria
Admin. region Lower Franconia
District Main-Spessart
Government
 • Mayor Franz Peter
Area
 • Total 19.20 km2 (7.41 sq mi)
Elevation 246 m (807 ft)
Population (2012-12-31)[1]
 • Total 4,510
 • Density 230/km2 (610/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 97833
Dialling codes 0 93 55
Vehicle registration MSP
Website www.frammersbach.de

Frammersbach is a market community in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.

Geography

Location

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.

History

There has been archaeological finds 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 is first mentioned in a surviving record, and in 1553 it transferred its allegiance 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 who 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 decisions of the village court between 1572 and 1764. In 1803 the former Electoral Mainz Amt passed, along with the village, in a Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to Prince Primate Karl von Dalberg's newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg, with which in 1814 it passed to Bavaria under the terms of the Treaties of Paris, having previously been a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. 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.

Community planning

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.

Coat of arms

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.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Through Frammersbach run Bundesstraße 276, going north-south, and Staatsstraße (State Road) 2305, going east-west.

The nearest Autobahn interchanges are:

  • on the A 3 towards Frankfurt, the Hösbach interchange (32 km), and towards Nuremberg, the Rottendorf interchange (64 km);
  • on the A 7 towards Kassel, the Hammelburg interchange (48 km), and towards Ulm, the Biebelried interchange (68 km);
  • on the A 66 towards Frankfurt, the Gelnhausen interchange (30 km), and towards Fulda, the Bad Orb interchange (28 km).

Frammersbach is linked to local transport on weekdays through the following bus routes:

  • Lohr-Partenstein-Frammersbach
  • Frammersbach-Habichsthal-Wiesthal
  • Frammersbach-Flörsbachtal-Jossgrund-Bad Orb

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.

Culture and social life

Schools

Kindergartens

Youth work

  • Jugendhaus Franziskus
  • Jugendzentrum Magic Box

Culture

  • Gemeinde-Bücherei (library)
  • Fuhrmanns- und Schneidermuseum (waggoners’ and tailors’ museum)
  • Mälzereimuseum (malting)
  • “Kleine Bühne” im Wirtshaus 1890 (“Little Stage” – cabaret)

Churches

  • Pfarrkirche St. Bartholomäus (Saint Bartholomew’s Parish Church)
  • Pfarrkirche St. Thekla (Saint Thecla’s Parish Church, in the outlying centre of Habichsthal),
  • Evangelische Friedenskirche (Evangelical Peace Church)
  • Kreuzkapelle (Cross Chapel)

Sport and leisure facilities

  • Heated outdoor terraced swimming pool on a three-hectare plot with four basins, each at a different level, with a water surface area of roughly 2 000 m²
  • “Orber Straße” sport area
  • Skating facility with quarter pipe
  • Sport area on the Sauerberg
  • Winter sport area on the Sauerberg with ski slope and skilift, cross-country skiing, sledding slope and a managed ski hut
  • Triple sport hall on the Heuberg with outdoor sport facilities (football and basketball)
  • Model aircraft field run by the Frammersbach Air Sport Club
  • Starting place for paragliders
  • Shooting house with airgun shooting facility
  • Forest adventure path and three cultural hiking paths
  • Several mountain bike courses; Frammersbach is where the Internationaler Spessart-Bike-Marathon is held, and in 2005 the European championship in mountain bike marathon was held here; It was also a staging point in the CRAFT Bike Trans Germany in 2006
  • Water treading (hydrotherapy) facilities in the Lohr and Lauberbach valleys
  • Floodplain ponds in Habichsthal

Clubs

In Frammersbach 45 local clubs are currently active.

Customs and festivals

  • Cock crowing contest on 1 May in the Wellers valley
  • Köhlerfest (Charburners’ Festival) at Whitsuntide
  • Bike-Marathon in late June
  • Orchestral Hoffest after summer’s onset
  • Frammersbacher Festtage (Festival Days), but commonly known as Großes Fest (Great Festival), early July
  • Fire Brigade Festival at the Kreuzkapelle, late July
  • Kirb (kermis, or church consecration festival), late August, at which 17- and 18-year-old youths are welcomed into the world of adulthood. The ceremony is conducted with well established rituals and is closely bound with consuming a great deal of alcohol. It is believed that formerly, young lads from the village celebrated the end of their apprenticeships with this festival.

Town partnerships

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.

Famous people

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Burkhard Büdel, lichen researcher, professor at the University of Kaiserslautern
  • Johann Bartholomäus Gossmann (b. 1811), philologist, saying collector and poet
  • Jakob Franz Steigerwald (b 1822), philosopher and professor of religion at the Aschaffenburg Royal-Theological Boys’ Seminary

External links

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References

  1. ↑ "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). 31 December 2012. 
  2. ↑ History on the community’s homepage
  3. ↑ Sechserbuch
  4. ↑ Nähere Informationen Städtepartnerschaft Nadasch
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