Aschaffenburg district

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Coat of arms of the district of Aschaffenburg Map of Germany, position of the district of Aschaffenburg highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '  N , 9 ° 14'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Franconia
Administrative headquarters : Aschaffenburg
Area : 699.15 km 2
Residents: 174,200 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 249 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : AB , ALZ
Circle key : 09 6 71
NUTS : DE264
Circle structure: 32 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		Bayernstrasse 18
63739 Aschaffenburg
Website : www.landkreis-aschaffenburg.de
District Administrator : Alexander Legler ( CSU )
Location of the district of Aschaffenburg in Bavaria
Weiden in der Oberpfalz Straubing Würzburg Schwabach Schweinfurt Regensburg Rosenheim Nürnberg Nürnberg Passau Landshut Memmingen Kaufbeuren Kempten (Allgäu) Ingolstadt Fürth Hof Erlangen Coburg Bayreuth Bamberg Augsburg München Aschaffenburg Amberg Ansbach Landkreis Würzburg Landkreis Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen Landkreis Weilheim-Schongau Landkreis Unterallgäu Landkreis Traunstein Landkreis Tirschenreuth Landkreis Straubing-Bogen Landkreis Starnberg Landkreis Schweinfurt Landkreis Schwandorf Landkreis Rottal-Inn Landkreis Roth Landkreis Rosenheim Landkreis Rhön-Grabfeld Landkreis Regensburg Landkreis Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm Landkreis Regen Landkreis Passau Landkreis Ostallgäu Landkreis Oberallgäu Landkreis Nürnberger Land Landkreis Neu-Ulm Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab Landkreis Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz Landkreis Neuburg-Schrobenhausen Landkreis München Landkreis Mühldorf am Inn Landkreis Miltenberg Landkreis Miesbach Landkreis Main-Spessart Landkreis Lindau (Bodensee) Landkreis Lichtenfels Landkreis Landshut Landkreis Landsberg am Lech Landkreis Kulmbach Landkreis Kronach Landkreis Kitzingen Landkreis Kelheim Landkreis Hof Landkreis Haßberge Landkreis Günzburg Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen Landkreis Fürth Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck Landkreis Freyung-Grafenau Landkreis Freising Landkreis Forchheim Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt Landkreis Erding Landkreis Eichstätt Landkreis Ebersberg Landkreis Donau-Ries Landkreis Dingolfing-Landau Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau Landkreis Deggendorf Landkreis Dachau Landkreis Coburg Landkreis Cham Landkreis Berchtesgadener Land Landkreis Bayreuth Landkreis Bamberg Landkreis Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen Landkreis Bad Kissingen Landkreis Augsburg Landkreis Aschaffenburg Landkreis Ansbach Landkreis Amberg-Sulzbach Landkreis Altötting Landkreis Aichach-Friedberg Bodensee Schweiz Österreich Baden-Württemberg Hessen Tschechien Sachsen Thüringenmap
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The district of Aschaffenburg ( pronunciation ? / I ) is located in the extreme north-west of the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia . It is the most populous district in Lower Franconia and, after Ansbach, the most populous in Franconia . Audio file / audio sample

geography

location

The district includes the Main lowlands in the west, the Kahlgrund in the north and extends to the heights of the Spessart in the east . In the Rohrbrunn Forest , the district has a share in the Geiersberg ( 586  m above sea level ), the highest peak in the Spessart. Over 200 km² of the district area are community-free forest areas. The Main forms part of the border with Hesse. Two communities in the southwest are to the left and west of the Main, Stockstadt and Großostheim. Here the district has a small part of the northeastern edge of the Odenwald . In the Wenigumstadt district , the Odenwald reaches a height of 280 meters. At the confluence of the Kahl with the Main, the lowest point in the district and the entire Free State lies at an altitude of about 102 meters. To the south of this is the westernmost point of Bavaria in the Karlstein district of Großwelzheim .

Neighboring areas

The district borders clockwise in the west, beginning with the districts of Darmstadt-Dieburg , Offenbach and Main-Kinzig-Kreis (all in Hesse ), the districts of Main-Spessart and Miltenberg and the independent city of Aschaffenburg (all in Bavaria).

history

Lordship and regional courts

Before 1800, the area of ​​today's district of Aschaffenburg belonged predominantly to the ore monastery of Mainz , only in 1814 or 1816 it came to Bavaria. By order of 1 October 1814 were district courts second-class Aschaffenburg , Kaltenberg and Roth book and the rule of court first class of the Counts of Schönborn to Krombach built. In 1815 Aschaffenburg became a city ​​in the immediate vicinity of a district . With an order of November 1, 1816, the Alzenau Regional Court was established after this former Hessian office had come to Bavaria. After the resolutions of June 30, 1828 and January 8 and 14, 1829, the Kaltenberg Regional Court was dissolved and its territory was divided between the Aschaffenburg and Alzenau Regional Courts and the Krombach Regional Court . All judicial districts belonged to the Untermainkreis and from 1838 to the administrative district of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg . On June 4, 1848, the Krombach Lordship Court was repealed. In 1858 the district court Schöllkrippen was established.

District Offices

Administrative area of ​​the district office of Aschaffenburg and the immediate city of Aschaffenburg around 1875

The district office of Aschaffenburg was formed in 1862 through the merger of the district courts of the older order of Aschaffenburg and Rothenbuch. The district courts of Alzenau and Schöllkrippen were also combined to form the Alzenau district office .

On the occasion of the reform of the layout of the Bavarian district offices, the district office of Aschaffenburg ceded the communities Habichsthal , Krommenthal , Neuhütten , Rothenbuch and Wiesthal to the district office of Lohr am Main on January 1, 1880 .

In 1901 the city of Aschaffenburg was enlarged at the expense of the district office: on March 1st by the municipality of Leider and on July 1st by the municipality of Damm .

Counties

On January 1, 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. The districts of Alzenau i.UFr. and Aschaffenburg.

Aschaffenburg district

On April 1, 1939, the district ceded the community of Schweinheim to the independent city of Aschaffenburg.

As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , on July 1, 1972, the two districts of Aschaffenburg and Alzenau in Lower Franconia as well as the municipality of Rothenbuch from the former district of Lohr am Main and the communities of Pflaumheim and Wenigumstadt from the also dissolved district of Obernburg were combined to form the new district of Aschaffenburg. Aschaffenburg remained an independent city and became the seat of the new district.

On April 1, 1975, the district ceded the Gailbach community to the independent city of Aschaffenburg, and Obernau followed on May 1, 1978 .

On July 1, 1976, the Main-Spessart district ceded the municipality of Wiesen to the Aschaffenburg district.

Population development

From 1988 to 2008 the district of Aschaffenburg grew by almost 19,000 inhabitants or around 12%. Since 2005 the trend towards a high of approx. 175,500 inhabitants. In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population of the district rose from 154,828 to 174,208 by 19,380 inhabitants or by 12.5%. The following figures refer to the territorial status on May 25, 1987.

Population development
year 1840 1900 1939 1950 1961 1970 1987 1991 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Residents 46.113 52,069 79,835 102,706 116,777 140.733 152.367 163,830 170,565 173.915 174,974 172,667 173,695

politics

District election 2020
Turnout: 61.02%
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District council

The result of the district council election on March 15, 2020 is shown in the diagrams.

Allocation of seats from 2020 in the district council of Aschaffenburg
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9
13
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3
10
28
4th
1 9 13 2 3 10 28 4th 
A total of 70 seats

The distribution of seats according to previous elections can be seen in the following table:

CSU SPD FW FDP Green new middle REP total
2014 34 15th 9 2 8th 2 0 70
2008 35 16 8th 4 (3) * 5 (6) * 1 1 70
2002 37 17th 8th 2 4th 1 1 70

* Constanze Roth, former spokeswoman for the Bavarian Green Youth , resigned from the Green Youth shortly after the election and switched to the Young Liberals . She took her mandate into the FDP parliamentary group. The size of the parliamentary group in the Greens changed from 6 to 5, while in the FDP it grew from 3 to 4.

District administrators

Since 1945 the CSU has provided the district administrator without interruption.

In the local elections in 2020, Alexander Legler (CSU) was elected district administrator with 58.3 percent of the valid votes. He replaced Ulrich Reuter (CSU), who was no longer running.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the district of Aschaffenburg
 Blazon : “Under a silver shield head, inside two green oak leaves with a green acorn, split by red and blue; in the front a six-spoke silver wheel, behind a silver oblique left-hand bar covered with three blue rings. "

The coat of arms was first awarded in 1967 and again on November 14, 1974.

Foundation of the coat of arms: The Mainz wheel stands for the Archdiocese of Kurmainz , to which the Aschaffenburg region had belonged since the Middle Ages. The rings were the symbol of the real men who u. a. built the Mespelbrunn Palace . The oak branch symbolizes the wooded Spessart , in which the district has a share.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Road traffic

The federal motorways A3 and A45 and the federal highways B8 and B26 run through the district .

Rail transport

The Bavarian State Railways ran their route from Würzburg over the Spessart to Aschaffenburg as early as 1854 , from there they continued to build the route to the state border near Kahl. This section was operated together with the subsequent line to Frankfurt by the Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (see Frankfurt Süd – Aschaffenburg railway ). In 1858 the HLB also started operations from Aschaffenburg to the Hessian residence city of Darmstadt.

The Bavarian State Railways started operating the following branch lines from Aschaffenburg:

1876 ​​via Obernburg-Elsenfeld to Miltenberg . On January 10, 1910, a railway line to Heimbuchenthal in the Spessart was opened from Obernburg-Elsenfeld station, which ran from Wintersbach station to Heimbuchenthal terminus about 3 km in the area of ​​the district. The Aschaffenburg – Höchst line went into operation from 1911/12 .

The Kahl – Schöllkrippen line , built in 1898 by the then Kahlgrund-Eisenbahn AG , which is now operated by the Westfrankenbahn , is of particular importance for the old district of Alzenau . All trains have been going to Hanau Hauptbahnhof since 1997/98, where they connect to the Rhein-Main S-Bahn.

Of the 95 km of the entire network, 18 km have been closed for passenger traffic in the district:

1968: Obernburg = Elsenfeld - Heimbuchenthal (16.8 km) 3 km; 1974: Aschaffenburg south - Höchst / Odenwald 15 km.

shipping

The Main runs through the district , which has been developed as a federal waterway as a federal waterway in the course of the so-called Rhine-Main-Danube Canal and forms the district boundary and the border with Hesse from Kleinostheim to Kahl am Main .

economy

Established businesses

Communities

Alzenau Kahl am Main Karlstein am Main Kleinostheim Stockstadt am Main Großostheim Mainaschaff Mömbris Johannesberg (Bayern) Glattbach Wiesener Forst Forst Hain im Spessart Heinrichsthaler Forst Heinrichsthaler Forst Waldaschaffer Forst Schöllkrippener Forst Sailaufer Forst Rohrbrunner Forst Rothenbucher Forst Dammbach Dammbach Goldbach (Unterfranken) Geiselbach Westerngrund Schöllkrippen Kleinkahl Wiesen (Unterfranken) Krombach (Unterfranken) Sommerkahl Blankenbach Hösbach Sailauf Haibach (Unterfranken) Heigenbrücken Heinrichsthal Laufach Weibersbrunn Rothenbuch Waldaschaff Bessenbach Mespelbrunn Heimbuchenthal Dammbach Weibersbrunn Aschaffenburg Hessen Landkreis Miltenberg Landkreis Main-SpessartMunicipalities in AB.svg
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(Population figures as of December 31, 2019)

city

  1. Alzenau (18,505)

Markets

  1. Goldbach (10,010)
  2. Grossostheim (16,365)
  3. Hösbach (13,240)
  4. Mömbris (11,487)
  5. Schöllkrippen (4263)
  6. Stockstadt am Main (8002)

Unregulated areas (197.56 km², uninhabited)

  1. Forst Hain in the Spessart (21.10 km² )
  2. Heinrichsthaler Forest (26.76 km²)
  3. Rohrbrunner Forest (39.05 km²)
  4. Rothenbucher Forest (34.89 km²)
  5. Sailauf Forest (14.36 km²)
  6. Schöllkrippen Forest (18.09 km²)
  7. Waldaschaffer Forest (23.12 km²)
  8. Wiesen forest (20.19 km²)

Other communities

  1. Bessenbach (5658)
  2. Blankenbach (1516)
  3. Dammbach (1875)
  4. Geiselbach (2003)
  5. Glattbach (3328)
  6. Haibach (8461)
  7. Heigenbrücken (2307)
  8. Heimbuchenthal (2180)
  9. Heinrichsthal (838)
  10. Johannesberg (3923)
  11. Kahl am Main (8033)
  12. Karlstein am Main (8087)
  13. Kleinahl (1837)
  14. Kleinostheim (8206)
  15. Krombach (2104)
  16. Laufach (5149)
  17. Mainaschaff (8936)
  18. Mespelbrunn (2194)
  19. Rothenbuch (1770)
  20. Sailauf (3596)
  21. Summer Bald (1247)
  22. Waldaschaff (4145)
  23. Weibersbrunn (2001)
  24. Western reason (1918)
  25. Meadows (1016)

Administrative communities

  1. Heigenbrücken
    with the member communities Heigenbrücken and Heinrichsthal
  2. Mespelbrunn
    with the member communities Dammbach, Heimbuchenthal and Mespelbrunn
  3. Schöllkrippen
    with the member communities Blankenbach, Kleinkahl, Krombach, Schöllkrippen (market), Sommerkahl, Westerngrund and Wiesen

Municipalities of the district before the territorial reform 1971/78

Before the regional reform, the district of Aschaffenburg had 32 municipalities (see list below). (The churches that still exist today are written in bold ):

former parish today's parish today's district
Dörrmorsbach Haibach Aschaffenburg district
Gailbach Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg
Glattbach Glattbach Aschaffenburg district
Goldbach Goldbach Aschaffenburg district
Großostheim Großostheim Aschaffenburg district
Grünmorsbach Haibach Aschaffenburg district
Haibach Haibach Aschaffenburg district
Grove in the Spessart Laufach Aschaffenburg district
Heigenbrücken Heigenbrücken Aschaffenburg district
Heimbuchenthal Heimbuchenthal Aschaffenburg district
Hessenthal Mespelbrunn Aschaffenburg district
Hösbach Hösbach Aschaffenburg district
Johannesberg Johannesberg Aschaffenburg district
Wedge Mountain Bessenbach Aschaffenburg district
Kleinostheim Kleinostheim Aschaffenburg district
Krausenbach Dammbach Aschaffenburg district
Laufach Laufach Aschaffenburg district
Mainaschaff Mainaschaff Aschaffenburg district
Mespelbrunn Mespelbrunn Aschaffenburg district
Oberafferbach Johannesberg Aschaffenburg district
Oberbessenbach Bessenbach Aschaffenburg district
Obernau Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg
Sailauf Sailauf Aschaffenburg district
Steinbach Johannesberg Aschaffenburg district
Stockstadt am Main Stockstadt am Main Aschaffenburg district
Straßbessenbach Bessenbach Aschaffenburg district
Unterafferbach Goldbach Aschaffenburg district
Waldaschaff Waldaschaff Aschaffenburg district
Weibersbrunn Weibersbrunn Aschaffenburg district
Wenighösbach Hösbach Aschaffenburg district
Wintersbach Dammbach Aschaffenburg district
Winzenhohl Hösbach Aschaffenburg district

Protected areas

There are 13 nature reserves , seven landscape protection areas , 36 geotopes and six designated FFH areas in the district . (As of August 2016)

See also:

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinguishing mark AB when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It is still issued today.

Until the 1990s, vehicles from the old district of Alzenau received license plates with the letter pairs KA to NZ and the numbers from 100 to 999.

Since July 11, 2013, the distinctive sign ALZ (Alzenau) has also been available.

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Aschaffenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 422 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  4. ^ Aschaffenburg district, 2020 district election, result , accessed on May 2, 2020
  5. ↑ http://www.main-netz.de/nachrichten/region/aschaffenburg/aschaffenburg-land/land/art3986,367063
  6. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of the Aschaffenburg district  in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on September 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ "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 ).
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. aschaffenburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).