Lohr am Main

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Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '  N , 9 ° 35'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Franconia
County : Main-Spessart
Height : 161 m above sea level NHN
Area : 90.43 km 2
Residents: 15,189 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 168 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 97816
Primaries : 09352, 09355, 09359
License plate : MSP
Community key : 09 6 77 155
City structure: 10 districts

City administration address : 		Schlossplatz 3
97816 Lohr a.Main
Website : www.lohr.de
Mayor : Mario Paul
Location of the town of Lohr am Main in the Main-Spessart district
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The parish church of St. Michael
City center with St. Michael
Church in Steinbach

Lohr am Main (officially: Lohr a.Main ) is a town in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart . It is located on the Main in the Spessart, about halfway between Würzburg and Aschaffenburg . Lohr is a medium-sized center and the seat, but not a member of the Lohr am Main administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Lohr is located on the eastern slope of the Spessart on a bend in the Main, which swings to the south here. This is where the Mainviereck begins (southern part of the Spessart). In Lohr the Lohr and the Rechtenbach flow into the Main. The topographically highest point of the urban area is at 542  m above sea level. NN at the summit of the Steckenlaubshöhe , the lowest is in the Main at 147.3  m above sea level. NN .

geology

The subsoil consists essentially of sedimentary rocks . There is a lot of red sandstone in the Spessart , followed by the Franconian slab , which consists mainly of shell limestone , in the east .

City structure

Lohr am Main has ten districts:

There are the following markings :

District Residents Area
ha 		Inhabitant / km² Incorporation
Halsbach 350 698 1972
Lohr am Main 6582 3900 -
Pflochsbach 460 193 1978
Rodenbach 799 979 1972
Ruppertshütten 770 429 1972
Sackenbach 1163 815 1972
Sendelbach 2995 575 1939
Steinbach 880 851 1972
Wombach 1973 583 1972

Population figures as of June 1, 2015

In addition, the city of Lohr am Main owns areas in the districts of other communities (Partenstein, Gemünden and Rechtenbach).

Neighboring communities

The following communities border Lohr (starting clockwise from the north): Partenstein , Fellen , Neuendorf , Gemünden am Main , Karlstadt , Steinfeld , Neustadt am Main , Rechtenbach .

Surname

etymology

The city of Lohr takes its name from the Lohr river of the same name , which flows into the Main in the city area. The addition on the Main distinguishes it from other places of the same name.

Earlier spellings

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

  • 1295 Lare
  • 1331 Lore
  • 1342 Lor
  • 1526 Lohr
  • 1573 Loarn
  • 1747 Lahr
  • 1831 Lohr
  • 1946 Lohr am Main

history

The Bayersturm
Main street with town hall in Lohr am Main
Church square in Lohr am Main
Lohrtorstrasse in Lohr am Main

Until the 18th century

The town of Lohr am Main has been settled since the 8th century at the latest and was already the core town of the County of Rieneck when it was first unequivocally mentioned in 1295 as "Lare" . In 1333 Lohr was granted city rights , which can be explained by the disputes over the legacy of the extinct line of the Counts of Rieneck-Rothenfels. City had been the place for a long time at this point. In this dispute, however, Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian wanted to politically strengthen the back of the Rieneck city lords out of gratitude for their services. However, the town charter did not protect against the long-standing feudal sovereignty of the Archbishopric of Mainz, even if the Archbishop of Mainz can only be proven as a feudal lord since 1366. As atonement for participating in the Peasants' War, the citizens of Lohr were deprived of their privileges from 1525 to 1535.

1559, after the death of the last Rienecker Count Philip III. Lohr came to the Archbishopric of Mainz as a reverted fief . Lohr experienced a heyday in the period that followed, which is still evident in the cityscape today. The Reformation was still in Lohr by Philip III. initiated. As part of his right of appointment in 1543, he had asked Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon to send a suitable theologian. The Schaffhausen reformer Johann Konrad Ulmer recommended by them arrived in Lohr in the same year and worked here until 1566. Although Lohr had been Mainz since 1559, it was not until Archbishop Johann Adam von Bicken that recatholicization began in 1603, and essentially until 1605 completed. Between 1611 and 1629 about 70 citizens in the Lohr region fell victim to the witch hunt, among them the hospital master Margreth Scherchen from Lohr am Main in 1756. In the Secret , the dungeon in the old town hall, the accused were imprisoned, who were forced to confess through torture were.

According to data from the Society for Leprology a medieval existed in Lohr leprosarium , whose foundation can not be dated precisely, however. The field name "Siechenwiese" refers to the Leprosorium.

Lohr initially survived the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) unscathed; However, Sweden invaded in 1632. The plague came along with the tribulation of war. Until it went out, the city lost "... more than half of its citizenship due to the rampant infection ...". After 1648 the city slowly recovered. The craft life flourished on the four Lohr shipbuilding sites. The founding of the Kurmainzischen Spiegelmanufaktur at the beginning of the 17th century brought a major investment in the city for the time. The manufacture existed until 1806.

Thanks to Johann Jost Schleich (around 1645 – around 1707) and his family, Lohr was a center of organ building that "had a decisive influence on organ building in Main Franconia in the 17th and 18th centuries".

19th to 21st century

In 1817, Friedrich Stein built an iron rolling mill in the vacant factory, which the Rexroth brothers acquired in 1850. Politically, that was Oberamt Orb and Lohr of the Archbishopric of Mainz in 1803 in favor of the principality of Aschaffenburg (Prince Primate von Dalberg) secularized and fell with him in 1814 (at that time a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt ) to Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 . In 1862 Lohr became the seat of the district office for the newly formed Lohr district .

In 1875 the old Main Bridge was built.

During the revolution after the First World War, on April 8, 1919, the Soviet republic was proclaimed in Lohr by supporters of the USPD , supported by insurgent soldiers from the Würzburg garrison. After the defeat of the Würzburg Soviet Republic and an ultimatum from the Würzburg Army General Command, the initiators in Lohr saw the hopelessness of their project and gave up. The Soviet Republic ended bloodlessly on April 12th.

In 1936 the Lindig settlement was founded, and in 1939 Sendelbach was incorporated.

During the Rienecker and Mainz period, Jews were only able to settle in Lohr occasionally, if at all, and never permanently. A Jewish community in Lohr could only emerge from 1862 with the liberalization of the right of immigration for residents of the Jewish faith in Bavaria (see Bavarian Jewish edict of 1813 and the elimination of the so-called matriculation paragraph ). By 1867 the community, with around 40 members, was already so numerous that it rented a temporary prayer room in the corner building at today's Kellereigasse 6 (across from the southern entrance of the underground car park). In 1871 she bought a house in Fischergasse as a community center and synagogue . In 1890 there were 91 Lohr residents of Jewish faith. In 1933 there were still 70 people of Jewish faith registered in Lohr, including around 25 Jewish patients from the former sanatorium and nursing home (now the “ District Hospital for Psychiatry ”). During the November pogroms of 1938 on November 10, 1938, the interior of the synagogue and various houses of Jewish citizens in Lohr were also devastated. The community then effectively dissolved when most of the members moved away and gave up the community center in Fischergasse in 1939. Fifteen of the Jewish fellow citizens who moved away were deported, mainly from other places, and murdered.

During the Nazi tyranny , 20 Jewish patients were deported from the former sanatorium and nursing home (see above) as part of the “ euthanasia ” killing campaign T4 in September 1940 to the Hartheim killing center near Linz and murdered. In October / November 1940 451 non-Jewish children, women and men followed. They were deported to the killing centers in Pirna-Sonnenstein and Grafeneck and also murdered. In the spring of 1944, 18 women and men were "transferred" from the penal system of the former sanatorium and nursing home to the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps . Three men and two women survived. Since 1993 a bronze relief by the artist Rainer Stoltz in the street has been commemorating these victims of the Nazi regime.

On April 2, 1945, the doctor Carl Brand , who was working in Lohr at the time, was arrested by the Gestapo and shot on the same day after a court martial because he wanted to hand the city over to the US troops without a fight. A memorial stone has been commemorating this since 1979 . In 2008 a street in the new Schafhof-Ost building area was named after him after previous efforts by Lohr citizen Dietrich Kohl in 2005 and 2006 were unsuccessful.

Heavy fighting between the Wehrmacht and the US Army took place in Lohr on April 2nd and 3rd. The latter lost 8 Sherman tanks here .

On July 1, 1972, most of the Lohr am Main district became part of the new "Mittelmain district", which on May 1, 1973 was given its current name " Main-Spessart district ". Lohr am Main was initially determined as the district town. In October 1972, however, the decision was made to use Karlstadt as the new district seat and the district office was moved from Lohr to Karlstadt. There were major protests against this in the population, which were shown, among other things, in a protest trip by around 4,000 Lohrers and Spessarters to Munich on February 26, 1973, as well as a collection of 27,000 signatures against the decision. As a result, hundreds of CSU members in the region left the party, as the decision for the new district seat had been made by the then CSU majority in the Maximilianeum in Munich; Whole local chapters dissolved in places. The city of Lohr filed a norm review suit in vain.

Incorporations

In 1939 the previously independent municipality of Sendelbach was incorporated. As part of the new municipal regimes in Bavaria, Halsbach, Rodenbach, Ruppertshütten, Sackenbach, Steinbach and Wombach were added on January 1, 1972. Pflochsbach followed on January 1, 1978.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population fell from 15,765 by 547 inhabitants or 3.5% to 15,218.

politics

mayor

On March 16, 2014, Mario Paul (as a non-party candidate, supported by the Greens and the SPD) was elected as the new mayor of the city of Lohr to succeed incumbent Ernst-Heinrich Prüße (CSU). On March 15, 2020, Mario Paul won in the first ballot with 56.7% of the votes against the two competitors from the CSU and the citizens' association (BLuU *).

City council

The town council of Lohr has 24 town council members. After the 2020 election, they will be distributed among the individual parties or lists as follows:

Party / list Seats
CSU 7th
SPD 4th
The green 5
Free voters 3
BLuU * 3
FDP 1
ÖDP 1

* Lohr and the surrounding area

coat of arms

The coat of arms has been documented by the seal guide since 1408 and has been used since the 15th century. It was confirmed by a ministerial resolution of June 4, 1957. The official description reads: "Nine times divided by red and gold, covered with a blue oblique wave bar".

Town twinning

The city of Lohr am Main maintains a city ​​partnership with the following cities :

Economy and Infrastructure

Lohr Maintal and industrial area

Jobs

Lohr am Main is the economically most important location in the Main-Spessart district and has the highest number of jobs of all the municipalities in the district. In 2017, the official statistics determined 13,365 employees subject to social insurance contributions in the companies in Lohr am Main; 6,290 of the resident population were in employment that was subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of inbound commuters is 7,075 higher than that of outbound commuters. 176 inhabitants were unemployed. In 2016 there were 42 farms.

Established businesses

Important employers in Lohr are:

  • Bosch Rexroth AG (hydraulics, mechanical engineering and automation technology) with approx. 5400 employees in Lohr (as of early 2017)
  • District hospital Lohr (hospital for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine) with 607 employees
  • Lohr Hospital (under the roof of the Main-Spessart Clinic) with 450 employees
  • Gerresheimer Lohr GmbH (glass products) with 350 employees
  • Nikolaus Sorg GmbH & Co. KG (glass processing systems and accessories) with around 200 employees at the Lohr location
  • Walter Hunger KG (hydraulic components) with 160 employees
  • OWI Oskar Winkler GmbH & Co. KG (molded parts made of wood and plastics) with 120 employees
  • there are also various wood processing companies

The city of Lohr am Main has always been rich in forests. The origin is unclear. According to a new, thoroughly plausible consideration, the property was donated to the Lohr parish (then St. Martin) in the 10th century and via this to the landlord and the commune. With a forest area of ​​over 4,000 ha, Lohr is the second largest communal forest owner in Bavaria after Augsburg. The forest of the city of Lohr is a mixed deciduous forest managed according to the principles of the Working Group on Natural Forest Management (ANW) . The Stadtwald Lohr has been certified according to the criteria of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) since 2000 .

traffic

air traffic

The international airport Frankfurt am Main is approx. 85 km away from Lohr and can be reached via the B 26 and A 3 .

rail

The Main-Spessart-Bahn , coming from Würzburg and Gemünden, leaves the Main Valley on its way to Aschaffenburg - Frankfurt am Main in Lohr and crosses the Spessart .

When the high-speed line Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich went into operation in 2006 , a direct early intercity or interregio to Munich was replaced by a regional train, first to Würzburg, later as a regional express to Nuremberg. The next ICE stops are Aschaffenburg and Würzburg.

On the eastern edge of the municipality, a short piece of the Mühlberg tunnel of the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg runs in a north-south direction. A section of the Nantenbacher curve with the Schönrain tunnel is located in the area of ​​the municipality .

The Lohr – Wertheim railway from Lohr Bahnhof via Lohr Stadt was a single-track, non-electrified, standard-gauge line to Wertheim ; passenger traffic between Lohr Stadtbahnhof and Wertheim was discontinued on May 30, 1976, the section Lohr Bahnhof – Lohr Stadt followed on May 22, 1977. Freight traffic is still served there today . The Lohr Bahnhof stop has no longer been supplied by a travel agency since February 2019.

The tracks for the Gerresheimer company were dismantled by Deutsche Bahn, but the railway embankment towards Rodenbach is still visible. Plans are currently underway to reactivate the route from Lohr Bahnhof to Lohr Stadt - also with a view to building a new district hospital in Lohr. In the course of this, the industrial area is also planned.

The former Lohr Stadt stop next to the parking deck is now a restaurant.

Street

Lohr is located on the B 26 , the B 276 , the State Road 2435 and the State Road 2315. The nearest motorways are the BAB 3 (Munich - Würzburg - Frankfurt / Main), connection points Weibersbrunn , Hösbach and Marktheidenfeld , and the BAB 7 (Würzburg - Kassel ), junction Hammelburg .

Waterway

The Main is a first-order federal waterway for which the Schweinfurt Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible.

"Snow White City" tourism concept

In 1985/1986, the Lohr pharmacist and pharmacy historian Karl Heinz Bartels and his two regular friends from Lohr, the museum director Werner Loibl and the master shoemaker Helmuth Walch, noticed that the fairy tale Snow White contained reference points to their hometown and its surroundings in Spessart. Bartels then jokingly put forward the thesis that if there was a historical role model for Snow White, it must have been a Lohrerin. He underpinned these considerations in his publication Snow White - On the Fabulology of the Spessart with so-called "scientific methods of Fabulology": Everything had to be substantiated with historical facts and precisely located.

The city integrated this idea into its tourism concept by starting to advertise Lohr as the “Snow White City”. Since 2012/2013, motorway signs on the A3 in Spessart have also pointed to the “Snow White City”. The city and the district also have various tourist offers on the topic - including exhibits such as the 'Talking Mirror' in the Spessart Museum in Lohr Castle . There is also a Snow White hiking trail. It corresponds to Snow White's escape route determined by the 'Fabulologists' from Lohr via seven concrete mountains located in the Spessart to the "seven dwarfs" in the former mining town of Bieber . A local “Snow White” working group has helped to anchor the fairy tale figure even more firmly than before in the cityscape.

When the design for a tree-like abstract sculpture won first place in an artist competition held in the city under the motto “Snow White enchants Lohr”, controversy arose over its realization as a work of art in public space. Both the estimated cost of around 100,000 euros and the appearance of the figure met with rejection from numerous citizens and also in the city council.

Karlheinz Bartels' Lohrer Snow White

Karlheinz Bartels' research shows that Snow White's role model is Maria Sophia Margaretha Catharina von Erthal , born in Lohr in 1725 , who died shortly before the Grimm brothers wrote the fairy tale for the first time . Her father, Philipp Christoph von und zu Erthal , was electoral Mainz bailiff in Lohr from 1719–1748 and traveled a lot as an envoy for the archbishopric. In this function he associated with emperors and kings all over Europe, which would have made the von Erthals look like a royal family to the Lohrers. Because of her praiseworthy qualities, Maria Sophia was also transfigured by them into a fairytale-like ideal of a king's child.

The family seat was the Lohr Castle . After the death of Maria Sophia's biological mother in 1738, the father married Claudia Elisabeth Maria, widowed von Venningen, born in 1743. Imperial Countess von Reichenstein (the mother of the Electoral Palatinate District President Carl Philipp von Venningen ). She was addicted to domination and used her position - Philipp Christoph was only rarely in Lohr - to the advantage of her children from her first marriage. The frequent absence of the father due to his many trips abroad could explain the "strangely inactive" role of the king in the fairy tale, which Theodor Ruf states.

As the most important indication that Snow White was a Lohrerin, Bartels names the 'talking mirror', which is exhibited in the Spessart Museum in the castle. It is a product from the Kurmainzische Spiegelmanufaktur in Lohr, which, as a state-owned company, was under the supervision of Philipp Christoph von und zu Erthal. The mirror was probably a gift from him to his second wife Claudia and, like most Lohrer mirrors, 'speaks' through its sayings . The upper right corner contains a reference to self-love ("Amour Propre"), which Bartels associates with the stepmother's vanity in the fairy tale.

The “wild forest” in which Snow White was abandoned could describe the Spessart, while Snow White's escape route “over the seven mountains” might be an old high-altitude path - the so-called “ Wiesener Straße”. On it you could get from Lohr over seven Spessart mountains to the mines near Bieber . The “seven dwarfs who hacked and dug for ore” could have been small miners or children who worked in the mines. The “transparent coffin made of glass” and the “iron slippers” in which the stepmother had to dance could have been made in the glass works or iron hammers of the Spessart.

Education and culture

education

Other educational institutions

Museums

Lohr Castle

The Spessart Museum is housed in Lohr Castle , which mainly deals with business and handicrafts, but also with the history of the Spessart area. In connection with the theory developed by Karlheinz Bartels from Lohr that the historical Snow White was born in Lohr Castle, there are also exhibits such as the 'Talking Mirror' in the museum.

In the Sendelbach district there is a clear school museum with a focus on the Empire (1871–1918) and the Third Reich (1933–1945).

The Isolator Museum is located in Haaggasse in a listed former transformer house : Lothar Vormwald exhibits all kinds of isolators there .

Buildings

Old Town Hall

The main attractions in the city center are

  • the old town hall (1599–1602), a renaissance building by Michael Imkeller with large arcades in the basement, which was once an open market hall. A variety of masks and caryatids were placed on the facade; the relief on the warrior memorial plaque from 1870/71 on the 1st floor is an early work by Ignatius Taschner .
  • the Lohr Castle , in its oldest parts in the 14th century as manor of the Counts of Rieneck built, was taken over by their extinction in 1559 by the Elector of Mainz as the new rulers and transformed. So also from Philipp Christoph von und zu Erthal , who was Mainz bailiff in Lohr from 1719 to 1748. After that it was successively the seat of the regional court, the district office and the district office; today it houses the Spessart Museum. The outbuildings of the former Kurmainzische administration on Schlossplatz are the former half-timbered cellar barn as well as the former forestry school and the forestry office; the cellar barn was once the “band house” of the Rienecker (the count's cooperage and winery), built shortly after 1415 and thus one of the oldest preserved buildings in Lohr.
  • the Bayersturm (city tower, 1330–1385), landmark of the city of Lohr, and a few remains of the city wall, most of which was demolished in the 19th century;
  • the parish church of St. Michael (12th - 15th centuries) is a late Gothic church on the foundations of a Romanesque pillar basilica and early medieval predecessor buildings from the 8th century, as the excavations by Alfons Ruf in 1978 revealed. The free-standing bell tower was added in 1496. The interior is from the 19th century. An extensive general renovation took place in 2014.
  • the Church of the Resurrection at the foot of the Valentinusberg, consecrated in 1934, is a reconstruction of the Protestant prayer and school house from 1872. The altarpiece of the Resurrection of Christ and a picture on the side of the nave is the last major work by Matthäus Schiestl .
Gasthof Krone 1567

The lower old town (main street and some side streets) has remained an architecturally closed ensemble of half-timbered houses in the Franconian style. The largest connected timber-framed building is the Gasthof Krone (Lohrtorstraße 2), first mentioned in 1567; the imposing listed property with portal from 1589 is the only historical inn still in operation in the old town of Lohr. Further examples of representative half-timbered houses are the corner house at Hauptstrasse 2 (1559), the late Gothic semi-detached house at Hauptstrasse 3/5, the “Maulaffeneck” (corner of Turmstrasse, 1589), the houses of the so-called “Malerwinkel” (Hauptstrasse 19-27), the corner of Marienapotheke Hauptstrasse / Apothekergasse (since around 1735, previously since around 1560 "Gasthof Zum Ochsen") as well as a few others, some with bay windows and sculptural decorations, which now house shops, cafes and restaurants. At the lower market square (main street / corner of Brunnengasse) there is now the fairytale fountain ( Hermann Amrhein 1936, little brother and sister ) instead of the medieval fountain .

The historic fishing district also has medieval half-timbered buildings (a fine example at Fischergasse 15 + 17, 1786). A modern reminiscence of the fishing guild on the Main is the sandstone fountain by Helmut Weber (1983): Here a stocky man with a beard pulls his full net out of the water (passage through Fischergasse / Muschelgasse).

The Main has been spanned by the Old Main Bridge since 1875 . Several stonemasons came to Lohr for the ornate superstructure. a. Bartholomäus Taschner, the father of Ignatius Taschner . A hundred years later, the old arch bridge was followed by a second, the 417 m long New Main Bridge , a prestressed concrete structure .

Former mirror manufacturer

Outside the city center, on the site of what is now Bosch Rexroth AG, Elector Lothar Franz von Schönborn built the Electoral Mainz mirror factory in Lohr (1698–1806). It is clearly recognizable as a group of buildings to this day, even if it has been modernized. The mighty original coat of arms stone of Elector Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich on its east side bears witness to major renovations after 1732. In its heyday, the manufactory even competed with Venice and made Lohr known all over the world with the magnificent “Lohrer Spiegel”. The mirrors found their way to India and America. Lohr can now look back on over 300 years of industrial history.

Outside Lohr are the most important sights

Architectural monuments

Regular events

Lohr Good Friday Procession 2012

The custom practiced by the citizens of Lohr since 1666 goes back to a plague vow, every year on the feast day of St. Rochus (August 16) in a procession to the Valentinus Chapel on the Valentinusberg above the city and to hold a solemn service there in honor of the Most Holy Trinity.

A number of festivals and cultural events are summarized under Spessartommer ; They include the Lohrer Tanzfest , the Altstadtfest , the City Festival and Klingendes Lohr .

The Spessart Festival Week , which takes place around August 1st for ten days, is of outstanding importance . A Bavarian beer tent with 4500 seats and live music, a beer garden directly on the banks of the Main with a further 2000 seats form the core of the event, a fairground with rides and a large fireworks display round off it. In 2013 the 68th Spessart Festival took place with around 100,000 visitors. 20,678 passengers used the lines of the Festwochen-Express (special bus lines).

There are cabaret and amateur theater events in Lohr and some parts of the city.

Public facilities

Lohr has a district hospital specializing in surgery , internal medicine , anesthesia , neurology , urology , ophthalmology and ENT , as well as the district hospital for psychiatry , psychotherapy , psychosomatic medicine and forensic medicine in the district of Lower Franconia.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have or are still working on site

Others

  • In Lohr, the association “ Bürgernetz Main-Spessart e. V. “its technology for the largest coherent WaveLan network in Europe. The so-called radio network Wavelink is offered internally to all members who live in the area between Gemünden and Erlach.
  • People born in Lohr are called "Mopper", the newcomers "Schnüdel".
  • The sixth book (Mr. Monk goes to Germany) on the US television series Monk is set in Lohr.
  • The Lohrer Schloss, the old town hall and the Bayersturm also serve as wedding locations.

literature

  • Karlheinz Bartels : Snow White - On the Fabulology of the Spessart. 2nd, supplemented new edition. Ed. History and Museum Association Lohr a. Main. Lohr am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-934128-40-8 .
  • Günter Christ: Lohr am Main. The former county. Edited by the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Laßleben, Kallmünz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7696-6854-4 .
  • Werner Loibl : The Kurmainzische Spiegelmanufaktur Lohr am Main (1698–1806) and the successor companies in the Spessart. 3 volumes. History and Art Association Aschaffenburg e. V., edited by Heinrich Fußbahn. Aschaffenburg 2012.
    • Volume 1: The Kurmainzische Spiegelmanufaktur Lohr am Main (1698–1806) as part of the general history. ISBN 978-3-87965-116-0 .
    • Volume 2: The directorial operation of the Mainz mirror manufacturer Lohr am Main. ISBN 978-3-87965-117-7 .
    • Volume 3: The branches and successor companies of the Kurmainzischen Spiegelmanufaktur in Spessart. ISBN 978-3-87965-118-4 .
  • Werner Loibl : The father of the prince-bishop Erthals - Philipp Christoph von und zu Erthal (1689–1748). Publications of the history and art association Aschaffenburg e. V., edited by Heinrich Fußbahn. Volume 64. Aschaffenburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-87965-126-9 .
  • Alfons Ruf: The parish church of St. Michael in Lohr and its building history. Lohr am Main 1983, ISBN 3-9800281-1-9 .
  • Theodor Ruf: Sources and explanations on the history of the city of Lohr am Main up to the year 1559. Lohr am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035963-7 .
  • Theodor Ruf: The Counts of Rieneck. Genealogy and Territory Building. Würzburg 1984, DNB 551095377 .
  • Wolfgang Vorwerk : “Historical search for traces. Contributions to the history of the Lohrer Schloß- und Amtsviertel, to the street history of the Spessart and to a few other topics. ”Ed. History and Museum Association Lohr a.Main, Lohr 2000, ISBN 3-934128-04-1 .

Web links

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  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 c Lohr and its districts. City of Lohr a. Main, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Harald Bichlmeier / Wolfgang Vorwerk: On the water and place names Lohr - previous research and new ideas (Bavarian-Austrian place and water names from an Indo-European point of view, part 5) . In: Wolf-Arnim Frhr. v. Reitzenstein (Hrsg.), Blätter für Oberdeutsche Namenforschung Vol. 51, 2014. Association for place and field name research in Bavaria e. V. Munich 2015, pp. 15–85.
  4. ↑ Theodor Ruf: Sources and explanations on the history of the town of Lohr am Main up to 1559 . Lohr am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035963-7 , pp. 46-47.
  5. ^ 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. 133 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Theodor Ruf: Sources and explanations on the history of the town of Lohr am Main up to 1559 . Lohr am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035963-7 , pp. 171-515.
  7. ^ Certificate of Ludwig of Bavaria
  8. ↑ Witch hunt in southern Hesse: In Dieburg, a quarter of the 800 residents were executed. In: Odenwald-Geschichten.de. March 6, 2005, archived from the original on May 6, 2016 ; accessed on May 8, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Memory of the witch craze in Lohr am Main
  10. ↑ see data under documentation: Medieval leprosories in today's Bavaria. Leprosy Museum Münster-Kinderhaus, accessed on November 20, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Bavarian Music Dictionary Online
  12. ^ Parish of St. Nikolaus Wörth
  13. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 513 .
  14. ↑ Karl Anderlohr: 90 years ago in Lohr: Bloodless End of the Soviet Republic , in: Main-Post , April 8, 2009 (accessed November 3, 2018)
  15. ^ Hans Schlumberger, Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid: Lohr with Steinbach . In: Wolfgang Kraus, Hans-Christoph Dittscheid, Gury Schneider-Ludorff in connection with Meier Schwarz (ed.): More than stones ... Synagogue memorial volume Bavaria Volume III / 1 Lower Franconia . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-449-6 . Pp. 257-271.
  16. ↑ Schlumberger, ibid, p. 266.
  17. ^ Raoul Posamentier: Lohr am Main sanatorium and nursing home , in: Micael von Cranach / Hans-Ludwig Siemen (ed.): The Bavarian sanatorium and nursing home between 1933 and 1945 . Munich 1999, pp. 55-87.
  18. ↑ Ulrike Puvogel: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein . In: Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism: a Documentation . 2., revised. u. exp. Edition. tape 1 . Federal Agency for Political Education , Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 190 .
  19. ↑ (tjm): Committee should name a street after Carl Brand. Main-Netz , March 26, 2008, accessed on August 8, 2010 .
  20. ↑ TOP 4 (...) Allocation of a street name ("Dr.-Carl-Brand-Straße"). (PDF; 400 kB) In: Invitation to the main administrative committee meeting of the city of Lohr on April 1, 2008. City of Lohr, pp. 8–10 , archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; Retrieved August 8, 2010 .
  21. ↑ Günter Weislogel: "Momentous consequences" . In: Wertheimer Zeitung of February 13, 2013.
  22. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 514 .
  23. ^ 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. 763 .
  24. ↑ Lohrer Echo v. March 17, 2020, p. 15.
  25. ^ Johannes Ungemach: Ticket shop at Lohr train station closes. In: Lohrer Echo. January 30, 2019, accessed April 8, 2019 .
  26. ^ Karlheinz Bartels: Schneewittchen, Zur Fabulologie des Spessarts . 2nd edition (supplemented new edition), published by Geschichts- und Museumsverein Lohr a. Main, Lohr a. Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-934128-40-8
  27. ↑ Wolfgang Vorwerk: The 'Lohrer Schneewittchen': On the fabulology of a fairy tale. (PDF) September 2015, accessed on October 28, 2016 .
  28. ↑ a b c Lohr & Snow White. In: lohr.de. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Snow White - a Lohrerin? In: spessartmuseum.de. Retrieved November 14, 2014 .
  30. ↑ Johannes Ungemach: Fairy Tale Route not an attractive destination. In: mainpost.de. February 25, 2014, accessed November 14, 2014 .
  31. ↑ Mirjam Uhrich: Where the real Snow White lived - and died. Maria Sophia von Erthal from Lohr am Main is historically the role model for the fairy tale character of the Brothers Grimm. In: Neues Deutschland from August 22, 2019, p. 14
  32. ↑ Dehm Wolfgang: tree like Snow White. In: mainpost.de. November 4, 2013, accessed November 14, 2014 .
  33. ^ Lohr city council wants to settle a dispute. In: br.de. October 31, 2014, archived from the original on November 3, 2014 ; accessed on November 14, 2014 .
  34. ↑ Johannes Ungemach: Wittstadt on his sculpture: "One and one not always two". In: mainpost.de. October 7, 2014, accessed November 14, 2014 .
  35. ↑ See Bartels, Schneewittchen, pp. 49 and 59; There, however, the incorrect year of birth 1729 was given. For the correct year of birth 1725 see Diözesanarchiv Würzburg, Official Books from Parishes 3030, Fiche 16, p. 166.
  36. ↑ Werner Loibl: The father of the prince-bishop Erthals - Philipp Christoph von und zu Erthal (1689-1748) . Publications of the history and art association Aschaffenburg e. V., edited by Heinrich Fußbahn. Volume 64. Aschaffenburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-87965-126-9
  37. ↑ On the question of official or senior official, see Günter Christ: Lohr am Main. The former county. Edited by the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Laßleben, Kallmünz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7696-6854-4 (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part Franconia. Series 1, Volume 34), pp. 182/183.
  38. ↑ Werner Loibl: The battle near Dettingen according to Mainz contemporary witnesses . Reprint from: The Battle of Dettingen 1743 , articles on the 250th anniversary, Geschichts- und Kunstverein Aschaffenburg e. V., Aschaffenburg 1993, p. 92, footnote 19.
  39. ↑ See the letter from "Frey Froue von Ehrtal bored Countess von Reichenstein" of December 9, 1743. Source: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, Imperial Knighthood Canton Rhön-Werra, inventory 109/241; explained by Werner Loibl: Snow White's imperious stepmother . In: Lohrer Echo, August 28, 1992.
  40. ↑ Theodor Ruf: The beauty from the glass coffin . Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-967-3 , p. 66.
  41. ↑ Bartels, Schneewittchen, pp. 56-58; on the 'talking mirror' see in particular the restoration report by Simone Bretz (unpublished, Spessartmuseum Lohr), which shows that and why the 'talking mirror' was made in the mirror factory in Lohr; to the Kurmainzischen Spiegelmanufaktur in Lohr a. Main see in detail Werner Loibl: The Kurmainzische Spiegelmanufaktur Lohr am Main (1698–1806) and the successor companies in the Spessart , 3 volumes. History and Art Association Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-87965-116-0 , ISBN 978-3-87965-117-7 , ISBN 978-3-87965-118-4 .
  42. ↑ Bartels, Schneewittchen, p. 58; on the origin of the proverbs from France, see Werner Loibl: The Kurmainzische Spiegelmanufaktur Lohr am Main in the time of Elector Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1698–1729) . In: Glück und Glas, on the cultural history of the Spessart . Munich 1984, ISBN 3-921811-34-1 , p. 277.
  43. ↑ Bartels, Schneewittchen, pp. 60–61 as well as p. 84, naming the seven mountains over which Snow White fled and over which a “Snow White hiking trail” leads from Lohr to Bieber today; For the escape route, see also the Kurmainzische Försterweise from 1338/39, which mentions the very old Wieser Höhenstraße for the first time, published by K. Vanselow: Die Waldbautechnik im Spessart, Berlin 1926, pp. 171–180
  44. ↑ Bartels, Schneewittchen, pp. 61–62 with detailed references.
  45. ↑ Internet presence of the Georg-Ludwig-Rexroth-Realschule.
  46. ^ Website of the Franz-Ludwig-von-Erthal-Gymnasium
  47. ↑ Bavarian Forestry and Technician School. on the website of the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests
  48. ^ Lohr & Snow White. In: lohr.de. Retrieved October 10, 2011 . To the origin of the idea that Snow White must be Maria Sophia Margaretha Catharina von Erthal, born in Lohr in 1725 : Karlheinz Bartels: Snow White - Zur Fabulologie des Spessart , 2nd new edition. Ed. History and Museum Association Lohr a. Main. Lohr am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-934128-40-8 , pp. 67-70.
  49. ^ Werner Loibl: Childhood and early youth in Lohr am Main . In: Norbert Götz, Ursel Berger (ed.): Ignatius Taschner, An artist's life between Art Nouveau and Neoclassicism [on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Munich, Berlin, Lohr am Main, Dachau and Bad Kissingen 1992/1993], Munich 1992, p. 21 -41, especially pp. 29-31.
  50. ↑ Werner Loibl: The father of the prince-bishop Erthals - Philipp Christoph von und zu Erthal (1689-1748) . Aschaffenburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-87965-126-9 , pp. 312–328
  51. ↑ Alfons Ruf: The parish church of St. Michael in Lohr and its building history . Lohr am Main 1983, ISBN 3-9800281-1-9 , pp. 143-182.
  52. ↑ photo
  53. ↑ Werner Loibl: The directing company of the Kurmainzischen mirror manufacturer Lohr am Main . ISBN 978-3-87965-117-7 , Volume 2, pp. 95-125.
  54. ↑ Lena Schwaiger: The Normans, the Spessart and the glass . In: Lohrer Echo , August 10, 2013, p. 18.
  55. ↑ Johannes Ungemach: Heat slows down the festival week only slightly. In: Mainpost. August 4, 2013, accessed May 8, 2016 .
  56. ↑ Wolfgang Dehm: Over 20,000 took the bus. In: Mainpost. August 6, 2013, accessed May 8, 2016 .
  57. ↑ Lohr am Main - much more than “just” the town of Snow White! • greetfactory.de . In: greetfactory.de . December 8, 2017 ( greetfactory.de [accessed December 18, 2017]).