Faulbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Faulbach (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '  N , 9 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Miltenberg
Height :	142 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.98 km 2
Residents:	2560 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	233 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97906
Area code :	09392
License plate :	MIL, OBB
Community key :	09 6 76 124
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Main street 121 97906 Faulbach, Germany
Website :	www.faulbach.de
Mayor :	Wolfgang Hörnig ( SPD )
Location of the community of Faulbach in the Miltenberg district

Faulbach, view of the village

between Faulbach and Hasloch, view of the Main

Faulbach is a municipality in the Miltenberg district in Lower Franconia .

geography

Geographical location

The main town of Faulbach is in the Bavarian Lower Main region and is part of the Bavarian Spessart Nature Park . The topographically highest point of the municipality is 405  m above sea level. NN (location) on the eastern slope of the Hohe Berg , the lowest is in the Main at 129  m above sea level. NN (location) . The Franconian Marienweg leads through Faulbach .

Community structure

In addition to the main town, there are two other parts of the municipality (the type of settlement in brackets):

• Breitenbrunn ( Kirchdorf )
  • Gusshof ( hamlet )
• Faulbach ( parish village )

There are the districts of Breitenbrunn and Faulbach.

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  Faulbach

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  District of Breitenbrunn

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  Faulbach district

Neighboring communities

	Community Altenbuch
City city proclamation		municipality Hasloch
	City of Wertheim

Surname

etymology

The place name comes from the Faulbach of the same name , which flows into the Main in the municipality.

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

1248 Fulinbach 1283 Fulenbach 1319 Vulenbach 1329 Faulnpach

1379 Fulnbach 1444 Fawlnbach 1594 Faulbach 1625 Faulbach

history

Until the church is planted

According to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, the office of the Archbishopric Mainz became part of the newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg of the Prince Primate of Dalberg , with which (now a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt ) it finally fell to Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Administrative history

In 1862 the district office of Marktheidenfeld was formed, on whose administrative area Faulbach was located. In 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. Faulbach was now one of the 47 communities in the Marktheidenfeld district . With the dissolution of the Marktheidenfeld district, Faulbach came to the newly formed Miltenberg district on July 1, 1972 .

Faulbach notch

In Faulbach there is one of the oldest notches (parish fair) in the wider region. Documented since 1870, but probably a lot older, the parish fair is celebrated once a year in the village. Here, for example, the bachelors of the village put up a church fair tree in accordance with Franconian traditions.

Since 2010 the parish fair has been organized and organized by the “Faulbacher Curb since 1870 eV” association founded for this purpose.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1976, the previously independent municipality of Breitenbrunn was incorporated.

Population development

• 1961: 2151 inhabitants
• 1970: 2466 inhabitants
• 1987: 2502 inhabitants
• 1991: 2678 inhabitants
• 1995: 2834 inhabitants
• 2000: 2795 inhabitants
• 2005: 2769 inhabitants
• 2010: 2693 inhabitants
• 2015: 2588 inhabitants
• 2016: 2576 inhabitants

politics

mayor

Mayor has been Wolfgang Hörnig ( SPD ) since May 2014 ; he was elected for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 88.0% of the vote.

Municipal council

The municipal council has 14 members. In the 2020 local elections , the distribution of seats was as follows (see diagram on the right):

5

6th

3

5 6th 3 

A total of 14 seats

• SPD / WG : 5
• CSU : 6
• IGF : 3

Compared to the previous term of office, the SPD / WG lost one seat to the IGF. The turnout was 63.86%.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided by red and silver; above a six-spoke golden wheel, below over green lawn a blue sloping stream. "

European elections

60.66% of the population took part in the election.

In the European elections, the CSU won 41.85%, the SPD 16.29%, the Greens 12.70%, the AfD 8.95%, the Free Voters 6.15% and others 14.08%.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Faulbach

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Faulbach

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 2017 there were 840 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 1197 people were in an employment relationship subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of out-commuters was 357 more than that of in-commuters. 28 residents were unemployed. In 2016 there were eight farms.

traffic

The Faulbach lock. Faulbach is on the left bank.

In the immediate vicinity of the village is the Faulbach shipping lock at km 147.1 on the Main. It has a length of 299.8 meters and a width of 12.1 meters. The drop height is 4.51 meters.

education

The following institutions exist (as of 2018):

• A day-care facility with 99 approved places and 103 children
• A primary and middle school with 11 classes, 18 teachers and 231 students

Personalities

• Wilhelm Störmer (* 1928 in Faulbach; † 2015), German historian and university professor

Web links

Commons : Faulbach (Landkreis Miltenberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Faulbach community
• Faulbach: Official statistics of the LfStat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.suedspessart.de/home/faulbach
3. ↑ Municipal Council. Faulbach community, accessed on June 28, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Faulbach community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on June 14, 2020.
5. ↑ Gußhof in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on June 14, 2020.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 70 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
7. ↑ Kerbeverein Faulbach since 1870 eV: Kerbeverein Faulbach since 1870 eV Accessed on September 7, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Kerbeverein Faulbach since 1870 eV: Kerbeverein Faulbach since 1870 eV Accessed on September 7, 2018 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 751 .
10. ↑ Entry on Faulbach's coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
11. ↑ European elections - 2019 European elections of the Faulbach municipality - overall result. Retrieved June 3, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Inland waterways of the Federal Republic of Germany, SECTION III: Inland waterways in the area of ​​the Waterways and Shipping Directorate South ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 31, 2010