Karbach (Lower Franconia)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '  N , 9 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Main-Spessart
Management Community :	Marktheidenfeld
Height :	204 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.15 km 2
Residents:	1456 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	60 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	97842, 97828
Area code :	09391
License plate :	MSP
Community key :	09 6 77 146
Market structure:	1 district
Market administration address :	Marktplatz 1 97842 Karbach
Website :	www.karbach.de
Mayor :	Bertram Werrlein ( FW )
Location of the Karbach market in the Main-Spessart district

Karbach is a market in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart and a member of the Marktheidenfeld administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

The place is in the Main-Spessart region.

District boundary of the municipality of Karbach

Community structure

Karbach is divided into four towns:

• Karbach
  • Fuchsenmühle
  • Hessenmühle
  • Neumühle

There is only the district Karbach.

Neighboring communities

• Erlenbach near Marktheidenfeld
• Marktheidenfeld
• Clearing
• Urspringen
• Birch field
• Remlingen

Surname

etymology

Karbach his name from the same name, the place flowing through Karbach , in rooms in the main leads.

Earlier spellings

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

• 1000 Carabach
• 1014 Charbahc
• 1164 Carbach
• 1172 Karbach

history

Until the church is planted

The place was part of the Hochstift Würzburg and came to the Counts of Löwenstein-Wertheim in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 . From 1500 both belonged to the Franconian Empire . In 1806 it became part of the Baden Media Office Steinfeld, which was ceded to Austria in 1816. In the general recession of Frankfurt in 1819 he came to Bavaria. According to the parish edict of 1818, today's parish was established there.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population increased from 1,311 to 1,439 by 128 inhabitants or 9.8%.

• 1961: 1152 inhabitants
• 1970: 1154 inhabitants
• 1987: 1308 inhabitants
• 1991: 1345 inhabitants
• 1995: 1414 inhabitants
• 2000: 1356 inhabitants
• 2005: 1439 inhabitants
• 2010: 1437 inhabitants
• 2015: 1439 inhabitants

politics

Mayor is Bertram Werrlein ( Free Voters / Independent Citizens). In 2014 he succeeded Kurt Kneipp (Free Voters Bavaria / Free Voters) and was elected for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 81.9% of the vote.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms, introduced in 1973, reads: “In blue a silver wave bar; above a golden fork consecration, below a golden uncial capital letter N covered with a golden cross.

Culture and sights

Jewish Cemetery

Since 1983 a memorial stone in the Jewish cemetery has been commemorating the persecution and murder of the Jewish residents of Karbach, Homburg and Marktheidenfeld , who were victims of the Shoah during the Nazi regime .

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Karbach (Lower Franconia)

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

The municipal tax receipts in 1999 amounted to 1,007,000 euros, of which 428,000 euros (net) were trade tax revenues.

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were 40 employees at the place of work in the manufacturing sector and 28 in the trade and transport sector. In other economic areas, 26 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 571 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were none in the manufacturing sector and three in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 19 farms with an agriculturally used area of ​​1249 ha, of which 1149 ha were arable land and 98 ha were permanent green space.

education

In 1999 the following institutions existed:

• Kindergartens: 50 kindergarten places with 44 children
• Elementary schools: one with 14 teachers and 252 students

Sons and daughters of the market town

• Nikolaus Fabri von Carbach (around 1485 to around 1534), humanistic historian
• Karl Bayer (1925–1995), forester, politician and district administrator

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. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/202149&attr=OBJ&val= 1727
3. ↑ ^{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. 115 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, Volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 152

Web links

Commons : Karbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the coat of arms of Karbach (Lower Franconia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Karbach (Lower Franconia): Official statistics of the LfStat