Laufach
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Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ' N , 9 ° 18' E |
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| State : | Bavaria | |
| Administrative region : | Lower Franconia | |
| County : | Aschaffenburg | |
| Height : | 180 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 15.6 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 5149 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 330 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 63846 | |
| Area code : | 06093 | |
| License plate : | AB , ALZ | |
| Community key : | 09 6 71 139 | |
| LOCODE : | DE LFA | |
| Community structure: | 3 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Raiffeisengasse 4 63846 Laufach |
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| Mayor : | Friedrich Fleckenstein ( independent ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Laufach in the district of Aschaffenburg | ||
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Laufach is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg .
geography
Geographical location
The municipality of Laufach is located in the northwest of Bavaria and east of Aschaffenburg , it is located in the Vorspessart, which merges into the Hochspessart behind Hain / Spessart. The topographically highest point of the municipality is the summit of the Lindenberg north of Hain at 402 m above sea level. NN (location) , the lowest is on the Laufach east of Weiberhof at 153 m above sea level. NN (location) .
Community structure
Laufach has three districts (the number of residents in brackets) in two districts :
- Laufach (3248)
- Frohnhofen (902)
- Grove in Spessart (1047)
Neighboring communities
| Sailauf parish |
Sailaufer Forst (municipality-free area) |
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Forst Hain im Spessart (municipality-free area) |
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| Community Bessenbach |
Surname
Origin of name
Laufach got its name from the river Laufach on which it lies. The place is popularly called Laafisch [ 'la: fɪʃ ].
Earlier spellings
Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:
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history
Until the 19th century
Laufach, which was originally called Loufaho, was first mentioned in 1084 in a necrology from the St. Peter and Alexander Monastery, Aschaffenburg . The Laufach Valley was settled under the protection of the Counts of Rieneck , who already owned the bailiwick of the Mainz Archbishopric and the Collegial Monastery of Aschaffenburg. At the Rieneck free court in 1380 - where lay judges from Laufach were expressly mentioned - settlers appeared as free people.
In the middle of the 14th century, glassmakers were employed in the Hochspessart thanks to special discounts. Since they had to leave the forest from Martini until Easter, they found winter quarters in Hain and Laufach. Many of these workers settled there. Already in 1469 there was a mine near the Weiber Castle . Copper was mined in "Our Dear Women 's Part", presumably on the Bissberg.
In 1618, at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, Laufach was a village with 76 "subjects" (households) and a total of 380 inhabitants. In 1651 a description of goods reports 12 men and 33 hearths (houses). With the support of the Electorate of Mainz, foreign soldiers, craftsmen and farmers were settled in the depopulated Spessart. The old families were largely extinct; new families were put on record. In 1668 Laufach had 72 households and 105 inhabitants. In the period that followed, iron ore was mined mainly at the Bischling and smelted in Laufach.
In the middle of the 18th century an iron hammer was built in the area of today's sports field.
At the end of the Old Kingdom, Laufach belonged to the Rothenbuch and Kaltenberg winery and to the Rothenbuch district bailiff in the Vicedomamt Aschaffenburg of the Electorate of Mainz. In 1797 Jakob Elbert Landzöller was in Laufach.
19th century
From 1803 Laufach belonged to the Principality of Aschaffenburg. From 1810 it belonged to the Rothenbuch District Fair in the Aschaffenburg department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. In 1812 Laufach counted with the Gmeiner iron, smelting and hammer works, with Frohnhofen, the Seehütte and the farms of Bischling and Wendelstein, 222 fireplaces and 1130 souls (residents). Mayor was Georg Adam Sauer. His adjuncts were Michael Fleckenstein and Jacob Bopp. School teacher in Laufach was Christoph Köhler and in Frohnhofen Adam Stenger.
In 1814 Laufach came to Bavaria and was part of the Rothenbuch regional court.
Around 1837, around 6,000 - 8,000 tons of iron ore were smelted annually in a blast furnace and a cupola furnace in the Gmeiner iron factory with its plants in Laufach, at Aschaffsteg (Markt Hösbach) and in the Weiberhöfen (municipality of Sailauf), 10 of them per week tons of castings and about 230 to 250 tons of bar and a year in three hammer mills Zaineisen made. The approx. 20,000 cubic meters of beech and oak wood available for this in the Spessart, or the charcoal from it, were not sufficient and so Rhenish coal had to be added even then. Including the miners and charcoal burners, the company employed around 100 workers at that time.
The industrial development was mainly promoted by the construction of the railway and the Laufach train station between 1850 and 1854. The different ironworks became a joint operation in which the ore smelting and metal processing took place up to the finished product.
On July 1, 1862, the district office of Aschaffenburg was formed from the district courts of Rothenbuch and Aschaffenburg , on whose administrative area Laufach was located.
In 1866, shortly after the outbreak of the German War , the fighting near Frohnhofen between Prussia and troops of the German Confederation took place here.
In 1869 there was the chemical factory Laufach, founded in 1856, which had belonged to the pharmacist and factory owner Adolf Federhaff from 1865 to 1872 and in which around 60 workers annually work from around 12,500 cubic meters of beech wood and 100 tons of black lead (lead (II ) oxide) among others wood vinegar, tar, tar oil and approx. 150 tons each of lead sugar (lead (II) acetate) and sodium acetate (sodium acetate, NaOAc).
In 1876 the iron ore was obtained by rail from Staffelstein.
20th and 21st centuries
In 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. Laufach was now one of the 33 communities in the old district of Aschaffenburg . On July 1, 1972, this merged with the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia to form the new Aschaffenburg district.
Efficient businesses have developed from craft businesses. In order to further promote the commercial and industrial settlement, the commercial area Laufach-Ost was developed, which extends over an area of 8 hectares between Laufach and Hain. Another industrial area between Laufach and Frohnhofen on an area of 4 hectares was opened up in 2001.
Especially after the Second World War, new residential areas emerged outside the town center. The districts of Frohnhofen and Hain also developed more and more into residential areas. In 1984 the municipality of Laufach celebrated its 900th anniversary with the local associations in several events for a week.
Incorporations
On May 1, 1978, the previously independent community of Hain in Spessart was incorporated.
Population development
Area of the former municipality of Laufach
- 1618: 380 inhabitants (76 subjects = men or families)
- 1668: 105 inhabitants (72 households)
- 1812: 1130 inhabitants (222 fireplaces)
- 1814: 1451 inhabitants (161 households in 115 houses)
- 1950: 2552 inhabitants
- 1961: 2787 inhabitants
- 1970: 3170 inhabitants
- 1978: 3682 inhabitants, 687 of them from Frohnhofen
Area of today's municipality of Laufach
- 1961: 3530 inhabitants, 743 of them from Hain
- 1970: 3953 inhabitants, 774 of them from Hain
- 1978: 4545 inhabitants, 863 of them from Hain
- 1991: 4964 inhabitants
- 1995: 5147 inhabitants
- 2001: 5267 inhabitants
- 2005: 5271 inhabitants
- 2010: 5262 inhabitants
- 2015: 5297 inhabitants
Religions
In the center there is a Catholic and a Protestant church. Since March 4, 2012, Andreas Reuther has been pastor of the Catholic parish community in Laufachtal, his predecessors from 2007 were Pastor Hans Thurn, before that Egon Hölzel. The Protestant pastor is Christoph Schürmann.
Until 1184 the residents of the Laufachtal had to attend church services in the Mother of God parish in Aschaffenburg, from 1184 to around 1250 in Bessenbach and from 1250 to 1810 in Sailauf. On November 28, 1810 Laufach was raised to a double parish together with Hain. In 1812 a larger church was built, which crowned the Kirchberg until 1962. In 1964 a new church building dedicated to St. Consecrated to Thomas More. However, this church building has become dilapidated over time, also due to its concrete construction, and needs a general renovation, which will be realized over the years up to 2015.
The Protestant Petruskirche celebrated its 100th birthday in 2005.
politics
Municipal council
The council of the municipality of Laufach consists of 20 council members. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 5001 and 10,000. The municipal council is elected for a six-year term. The first mayor, Friedrich Fleckenstein (SPD) is also entitled to vote in the council of the municipality. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, 2,544 of the 3,998 residents eligible to vote in the municipality of Laufach exercised their right to vote, bringing the turnout to 63.63%.
mayor
Friedrich Fleckenstein (SPD) has been the first mayor of the municipality of Laufach since May 1, 2014. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, he was re-elected with 91.49% of the vote. The predecessor was Valentin Weber (Free Voters).
coat of arms
Blazon : A silver hammer and a silver mallet crossed diagonally in red, above three golden oak leaves growing from a stem.
Coat of arms history: The oak leaves shown in the upper part of the coat of arms indicate the geographical location of Laufachs in the oak-rich Spessart. Hammer and mallet in the lower part of the coat of arms are symbols for a former ironworks and the ore mining operated in Laufach. The coat of arms was awarded on September 19, 1969.
The formerly independent community of Hain im Spessart , which today belongs to Laufach, has its own coat of arms that is used on non-official occasions.
Community partnerships
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France : As the first municipality in the Aschaffenburg district, the small Spessart municipality of Hain established a friendship and partnership with Sainte Eulalie in France in 1971 .
Culture and sights
In the Catholic parish church of St. Thomas More there is an important pietà made of linden wood from around 1520. It is a work from the local area or a workshop by Tilman Riemenschneider . The church itself was built from 1963 to 1964 based on a design by Gustav Heinzmann. Among other things, the crucifixion group from 1947 to 1950 was taken over by Fried Heuler from the previous building.
Architectural monuments
Soil monuments
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Laufach can be reached via federal highway 26 , which crosses the community.
Laufach station is on the Main-Spessart-Bahn , it is the western starting point of the Spessart ramp . Locomotives were kept in the station until the switch to the less steep new line in 2017 to push heavy freight trains. Until then, it was mostly served hourly by regional trains on the Aschaffenburg - Heigenbrücken line, and since then it has primarily served as the terminus of the Rüsselsheim -Laufach regional train.
Laufach is also approached by line 44 of the VAB .
Public facilities
- South of the church, on the Laufachbach, is the town hall, built in 1956 and renovated in 2002, next to the Laufach fire station , which has been occupied since 1980.
- The fire stations in Frohnhofen and Hain were renovated in 1992 and 1995 with the participation of the fire brigades.
The three formerly independent volunteer fire brigades in the districts merged as part of a reorganization on July 1, 2004 under the new name Feuerwehr Gemeinde Laufach . The Laufach fire station was demolished in July 2016, and a new building is to be built in the same place from October, which is to be completed in spring 2018. Town hall and fire station should then be connected.
- In 1994 the newly built Hain kindergarten and the building yard in the Laufach-Ost industrial park were opened.
- A youth room was set up in 1999, but it is now closed again and is used for other purposes.
- In 2000 the "Frohnhofen-Ost" building area was developed as a "local model". Here 43 building plots were made available to those interested in Laufach at a reasonable price.
education
- An association school, which the elementary u. Includes secondary school, the youth from the three districts serves as an educational facility.
- In 1970 an indoor pool was added to this school building, which can be used by the students and citizens of the community. In the meantime it has been renovated and the pool received various extras.
- In 1985 Laufach got a school sports hall, which, together with the outdoor sports facility, can also be used by clubs outside of school operations.
- After the oldest gym was demolished, another gym was built between Laufach and the district of Frohnhofen, which enables additional sports (including bowling, badminton, ...).
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Friedrich Stein (* 1820 in Laufach; † 1905 in Schweinfurt ), lawyer and historian
- Claus Heßler (* 1969 in Laufach), drummer and author
Other personalities associated with the community
- Liborius Gerstenberger (1864–1925), clergyman and politician, pastor in Laufach and Laufacher honorary citizen from 1892 to 1903
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ "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 ).
- ↑ residents of Laufach. Retrieved July 1, 2020 . (Status: 07/2019)
- ↑ Laufach in the location database
- ↑ 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. 129 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 736 .
- ↑ a b Election of the municipal council - Laufach municipality. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Municipal Code for the Free State of Bavaria (Municipal Code - GO) in the version published on August 22, 1998; Art. 31 - Composition of the municipal council , accessed on July 11, 2014
- ^ Election of the first mayor of the municipality of Laufach. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Sights , on Laufach.de
- ↑ See Hanswernfried Muth (Hrsg.): Tilman Riemenschneider: the works of the carver and sculptor, his workshop and his circle in the Mainfränkisches Museum Würzburg. 1982 Google book
- ↑ See Richard Schömig: Modern Churches in the Diocese of Würzburg. 1965
- ↑ St. Thomas More ( Memento from December 1, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), on thomasmorus-laufach.de
- ↑ Matthias Schwind: It starts: the fort is being demolished. Main-Echo , July 12, 2016, accessed July 12, 2016 .
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Laufach
- Entry on the coat of arms of Laufach in the database of the House of Bavarian History
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