Sommerkahl

Sommerkahl

Coat of arms
Sommerkahl

Coordinates: 50°04′N 9°16′E / 50.067°N 9.267°ECoordinates: 50°04′N 9°16′E / 50.067°N 9.267°E
Country Germany
State Bavaria
Admin. region Unterfranken
District Aschaffenburg
Municipal assoc. Schöllkrippen
Government
  Mayor Arnold Markert (CSU)
Area
  Total 5.46 km2 (2.11 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)[1]
  Total 1,131
  Density 210/km2 (540/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 63825
Dialling codes 06024
Vehicle registration AB
Website www.gemeinde-sommerkahl.de

Sommerkahl is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (Administrative Community) of Schöllkrippen.

Constituent communities

Constituent communities

The community’s Ortsteile are Sommerkahl and Vormwald.

Politics

Community council

The council is made up of 13 council members, counting the part-time mayor.

CSU SPD FWG Total
2002 6 4 3 13 seats

(as at municipal election held on 3 March 2002)

Coat of arms

The community’s code of arms might be described in the following way: Gules a fess wavy at the nombril point above which a hammer and pick in saltire reversed argent, in base an oakleaf in fess Or, the stem towards dexter.

The two tools, the hammer and pick, stand for the miners who worked at copper and iron mining, industries confirmed as having existed in the municipal area by 1542. The mining works, however, were shut down in 1922, and the shutdown is symbolized by the tools being upside down (“reversed”; this charge, quite common in German mining towns’ arms, is usually shown with the tools’ heads uppermost). The wavy fess (horizontal stripe) stands for the community’s location on the river Kahl. The oakleaf refers to the Spessart, which is thickly wooded with oaks. Sommerkahl was an Electoral Mainz holding from 982 to 1803; the tinctures gules and argent (red and silver) were Mainz’s colours.

The arms were conferred on 7 February 1972.

Parish church
Town Hall

Buildings

Famous people

Sons and daughters of the town

From Sommerkahl come the Berglöwe (“Mountain Lion”, “Cougar”) Herbert Stenger, a champion hillclimber, and the German national footballer Heiko Westermann, who currently plays for Hamburger SV.

References

  1. "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). 31 December 2013.

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