Mömbris

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′  N , 9 ° 10 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Aschaffenburg
Height :	180 m above sea level NHN
Area :	35.87 km 2
Residents:	11,487 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	320 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	63776
Area code :	06029
License plate :	AB , ALZ
Community key :	09 6 71 143
Market structure:	18 districts
Market administration address :	Schimborner Strasse 6 63776 Mömbris
Website :	www.moembris.de
Mayor :	Felix Wissel ( independent )
Location of the Mömbris market in the Aschaffenburg district

Municipal area with districts of Mömbris

Town hall of the Mömbris market

Parish Church of St. Cyriakus in Mömbris

Catholic Parish of St. Cyriakus

Mömbris and canteen bottoms

Mömbris [ mœmbʁɪs ] has been a market in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg since January 31, 1964 . Mömbris is the fifth largest municipality in the district on an area of ​​35.87 km². The largest part (32.81 km²) are forests, meadows and arable land. The place is between 165 m and 337  m above sea level. NN .

geography

Geographical location

The Mömbris market is located in the Bavarian Lower Main region in the middle of the Kahlgrund halfway from Schöllkrippen to Alzenau at the foot of the Lower Spessart with its highest elevation, the Hahnenkamm ( 436  m above sea level ). In the northern municipal area, the state border with Hesse runs on the Teufelsgrund . The river Kahl flows through the market town. The topographically highest point of the municipality is located on a secondary peak of the Stempelhöhe northwest of Angelsberg at 418  m above sea level. NN (location) , the lowest is on the Kahl near the sewage treatment plant at 147  m above sea level. NN (location) .

The village of Mömbris itself is centrally located in the municipality between Schimborn and Niedersteinbach on the state road 2305 at 180  m above sea level. NN . It has grown together structurally with Frohnhofen , Rappach and Mensengesäß . Heimbach is located southwest of Mömbris . The highest and lowest points of the village mark correspond to those of the entire municipality.

Community structure

There are ten municipalities in the municipality:

District	Area (ha)
Daxberg	approx. 0270
Dörnsteinbach	approx. 0200
Hemsbach	about 0160
Hollow / Mömbris	approx. 0090
Koenigshofen adKahl	approx. 0200
Canteen bottoms	about 0250
Mömbris	circa 1340
Niedersteinbach	approx. 0220
Reichenbach	approx. 0330
Schimborn	approx. 0530
Mömbris market	approx. 3590

The community is divided into 18 districts:

District	Residents	District
Angelsberg	62	Mömbris
bridges	596	Mömbris
Daxberg	734	Daxberg
Dörnsteinbach	636	Dörnsteinbach
Gunzenbach	590	Mömbris
Heimbach	130	Mömbris
Hemsbach	276	Hemsbach
Hollow	447	Hollow / Mömbris
Koenigshofen adKahl	818	Koenigshofen adKahl
Canteen bottoms	1,122	Canteen bottoms
Molkenberg	63	Mömbris
Mömbris	2,278	Mömbris
Niedersteinbach	939	Niedersteinbach
Rappach	266	Mömbris
Reichenbach	386	Reichenbach
Rothengrund	229	Mömbris
Schimborn	1,680	Schimborn
Strötzbach	628	Mömbris
Mömbris market	11,870

There are 23 towns in the districts:

place	Height (m above sea level)	District
Angelsberg	305	Angelsberg
bridges	156	bridges
Daxberg	313	Daxberg
Dörnsteinbach	294	Dörnsteinbach
Flederichsmühle	185	Koenigshofen adKahl
Frohnhofen	170	Strötzbach
Grosshemsbach	296	Hemsbach
Gunzenbach	257	Gunzenbach
Home	185	Schimborn
Heimbach	240	Heimbach
Hollow	286	Hollow
Kaltenberg	190	Schimborn
Kleinhemsbach	340	Hemsbach
Koenigshofen adKahl	189	Koenigshofen adKahl
Canteen bottoms	170	Canteen bottoms
Molkenberg	340	Molkenberg
Mömbris	180	Mömbris
Niedersteinbach	159	Niedersteinbach
Rappach	207	Rappach
Reichenbach	225	Reichenbach
Rothengrund	226	Rothengrund
Schimborn	185	Schimborn
Strötzbach	170	Strötzbach

The former villages of Wohnstadt , Hüttenberg and Karlesberg were in what is now the Mömbris market.

The former villages Niedersteinbach , Mittelsteinbach and Obersteinbach now form the district Niedersteinbach.

Bavarian-Hessian border

Hessen protruded into the market with a headland. In 2007, a land swap of approx. 10 hectares between Bavaria and Hesse was therefore agreed, which came into force on July 1, 2011, whereby the territory of Bavaria was reduced by 1.77 hectares. Until then, the state border ran straight through the athletes' home of FV Viktoria 1930 e. V. Bridges. In addition, the border divided a small section of the state road 2305 in the Niedersteinbach district and continued briefly on the Hessian side ( Hessenkurve ).

Neighboring communities

	Communities of Freigericht and Geiselbach	community Krombach
City of Alzenau		Community Blankenbach
	Johannesberg parish	Market Hösbach

Surname

etymology

The name carried over from Mömbris Castle to the place. In the Kahlgründer dialect the place is called Memersch today. From what the name Mömbris is actually derived is not exactly known. There are two possible theories:

• The name Mömbris goes back to the Middle High German word Hemelris , which means something like clearing of swamps , which took place in the area around Mömbris before this time.

• The original name Hemmilriz consists of the personal name Hemilio and the Middle High German word riz , which means column or furrow . The changing initial letter from H to M can come from a possible agglutination of the preposition ending: (a) m Hemmilriz or (zu) m Hemmilriz.

Earlier spellings

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

1340 Hemmelrisz 1346 Memmilriz 1361 Memmelris 1386 Memelris 1389 Memelrisz 1468 membris

1481 Meymelryß 1592 membrane 1625 Memers 1805 membris 1832 Mömbris

history

middle Ages

In the Middle Ages , Mömbris belonged to the Mömbris dish of the same name , of which it was the main town. The Mömbris court in turn was part of the Alzenau free court . The free court was directly imperial , but the empire pledged or lent the area again and again. So the rulers changed, including the lords and later counts of Hanau , the lords of Randenburg and the lords of Eppstein .

The castle Moembris was in 1300 where today is the old cemetery. It is incorrectly called Womburg because it could not be located in the 19th century.

Modern times

In 1500 , the Roman-German King Maximilian I enfeoffed the Archbishop of Mainz and the Count of Hanau-Munzenberg together with the Freigericht, which they now administered as a condominium . Since ecclesiastical jurisdiction remained with the Archbishops of Mainz at the time of the condominium , the Reformation - in contrast to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg - could not prevail here. Mömbris remained Roman Catholic . In 1603 Mömbris fell completely to Kurmainz. Mömbris became a part of the newly formed principality of Aschaffenburg of the prince von Dalberg according to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, with which it finally fell to Bavaria in 1814 (at that time a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt).

Resistance under National Socialism

The arrest of pastor August Wörner on December 28, 1936 sparked anger and indignation among the Catholic population in Mömbris. The pastor, who was himself a war veteran of the First World War and holder of the Iron Cross First Class , had spoken out against the installation of a striker box in his community. In the Sunday service on December 20, 1936, the clergyman had advocated a signature campaign against the attachment of the striker box and issued an ultimatum not to hold mass any more. This appeal caused many Catholic parishioners to go to the mayor and at the same time NSDAP local group leader Gottfried van Treeck and to sign the list of signatures. Thereupon Pastor Wörner was arrested by the Gestapo on December 28, 1936 and taken to prison in Aschaffenburg. The chaplain of the Mömbris community, Hermann Dümig, continued the resistance against the Nazi regime . Pastor August Wörner was released from so-called protective custody on August 2, 1937 .

post war period

The municipality of Mömbris belonged to the Alzenau district office , which was formed on July 1, 1862. On January 1, 1939, this became part of the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia . When it was dissolved, Mömbris came to the newly formed district of Aschaffenburg on July 1, 1972 .

Incorporations

• Mömbris has included the districts of Brücken, Strötzbach, Rappach, Heimbach, Gunzenbach, Rothengrund, Angelsberg, Karlesberg (now Wüstung) and Molkenberg since 1818 .
• Daxberg, Hemsbach and Mensengesäß were the first municipalities to be incorporated into the Mömbris market with effect from January 1, 1972.
• On July 1, 1972, the municipality of Niedersteinbach followed as the 13th district.
• On January 1, 1974 Dörnsteinbach and Hohl were incorporated.
• The Reichenbach community gave up its independence on January 1, 1976.
• Schimborn, which merged with Königshofen an der Kahl on January 1, 1972 and together with this place formed the community of Schimborn, came to Mömbris on May 1, 1978.

Flood on May 4th 2017

On May 4, 2017, the Kahlgrund was hit by a violent storm, during which the Kahl and its tributaries had strong floods. The districts of the Mömbris market were particularly hard hit. See the flood of the Kahl 2017 .

politics

Market council

The market council of the municipality of Mömbris consists of 24 council members. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 10,001 and 20,000. The municipal council is elected for six years.

The first mayor is also entitled to vote in the municipal council. This is the non-party Felix Wissel .

The last local election on March 16, 2014 resulted in the following:

Political party	Number of seats	change
CSU	10	+ 1
SPD	7th	- 1
Voting community market Mömbris	4th	± 0
Independent citizens	3	± 0

mayor

The first mayor of the community has been Felix Wissel, who has not been party to any party since 2008 . He was re-elected in the mayoral election on March 16, 2014 with 96.49% of the vote. The turnout was 54.08%. On March 15, 2020, he was nominated by the nomination All good things are three , elected for a further six years with 85.8% of the vote; the participation was 67.5%.

List of Mayors in Mömbris

Georg Grünewald (1876–1910) August Grünewald (1911–1938) Gottfried van Treek (1939-1945) Anton Volk (1945) Leopold Wissel (1945–1951)

Anton Reising (CSU) (1951–1986) Michael Schneemeier (SPD) (1986–1998) Reinhold Glaser (CSU) (1998-2008) Felix Wissel (independent) (since 2008)

coat of arms

Blazon : In red a fallen silver sword with a golden hilt, on the right by a six-spoke silver wheel, on the left by a golden crown of leaves.

Coat of arms history: Mömbris was a royal property until 1500, as indicated by the foliage crown in the coat of arms. The place was the seat of a free court, which is symbolized by the sword. In 1487 Kurmainz acquired part of the state sovereignty and in 1738 overall control of the area. The six-spoke wheel (Mainz wheel) reminds of this.

The coat of arms was designed and introduced in 1961.

Parish partnership

• Association of Communes of Pré-Bocage

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Mömbris

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of archaeological monuments in Mömbris

Churches and chapels

The boundary of the parish community Mittlerer Kahlgrund does not quite correspond to that of the political community.

The following churches and chapels belonging to the Alzenau dean's office are located in the Mömbris market :

• Trinity Chapel (Rappach)
• Holy Spirit Church (Dörnsteinbach)
• Hüttenberger Chapel (refectory)
• Exaltation of the cross, church (Daxberg)
• Visitation of the Virgin Mary, Church (Hohl)
• Maria am Wäldchen, chapel (Daxberg)
• Mary Help of Christians, Church (Reichenbach)
• Maria am Weg, chapel (Schimborn)
• Mary in the rise, chapel (Schimborn)
• Maria Patrona Bavariae, chapel (Rothengrund)
• Marienkapelle / Dorfkapelle, old church (Daxberg)
• St. Anna, chapel (Mömbris)
• St. Barbara, chapel (Kleinhemsbach)
• St. Barbara, chapel (Strötzbach)
• St. Cyriakus and St. Valentin, Church (Mömbris)
• St. James the Elder, old church ( Schimborn )
• St. James the Elder, New Church (Schimborn)
• St. Michael, Church (Gunzenbach)
• St. Wendelin, chapel (bridges)
• St. Wendelin, church (Großhemsbach)
• St. Wendelin, church (Königshofen)
• St. Wendelin, church (Niedersteinbach)

Museums

Local museum

Local museum with folklore collection in Gunzenbach

The local museum of the Mömbris market is located in the Gunzenbach district. It was created through the initiative of Emil Griebel, who was then the district administrator at the time, in the old Gunzenbach school and has existed since May 14, 1977.

Mill Museum

→ Main article : Strötzbacher Mühle

In the Strötzbach district, in a historic double mill on the Kahl, there is the mill museum, which can be viewed from May to October by arrangement. Construction of the double mill in Strötzbach began around 1700. Jakob Koch, who came from Sonthofen in the then bishopric of Augsburg, and the local Andreas Brückner are the ancestors of the double mill. Both mills were under one roof. The mill parts were even nested inside each other on the individual floors. With the establishment of the mill museum, the old mill facilities were concentrated in the "Brückner Mühle" and the grinding process was made possible as in earlier times. The “cook share” became the family home. The two mill wheels were preserved.

Open air museum

There is a small open-air museum near the center of Mömbris. A historic oil mill and an old forge initially form the basis of the museum, which is to be expanded.

Economy and Infrastructure

The high number of inhabitants can hide the fact that Mömbris is a very rural municipality, since Mömbris has belonged to 18 districts since the major regional reform at the end of the 1970s. These have consistently few inhabitants (size: approx. 200-1000 inhabitants, exception: Schimborn (1800 inhabitants) and Mömbris itself (2000 inhabitants)), so that in 2004 the Mömbris market had around 12,000 inhabitants. After the Mömbris market had to struggle with a decline in population and economic problems for a long time (loss of purchasing power in the neighboring Kahlgrund communities Schöllkrippen and Alzenau ), new industrial areas with the companies and shopping centers located there have been ensuring positive development for several years.

In 1998 there were eight in agriculture and forestry, 1038 in manufacturing and 410 in trade and transport at the place of work. In other economic sectors 398 people were employed subject to social security contributions at the place of work. There were a total of 4,435 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were three in manufacturing and 29 in construction. In 1999 there were also 117 farms with an agricultural area of ​​1240 hectares. Of this, 592 hectares were arable land and 613 hectares were permanent green space.

traffic

The Mömbris- Mensengesäß stop and the Mömbris- Strötzbach train station are both on the Kahl – Schöllkrippen railway line .

education

The following institutions exist (as of: 1999):

• Kindergartens: 495 kindergarten places with 471 children
• Primary schools: 5 with 46 teachers and 985 students
• Volkshochschule Kahlgrund-Spessart e. V., responsible for the market community Mömbris, the VG Schöllkrippen, Geiselbach, Johannesberg, VG Heigenbrücken, VG Mespelbrunn

Club life

The club life in Markt Mömbris is diverse. In addition to some sports clubs, several local and cultural clubs are represented. The wrestling team of the RWG Mömbris-Königshofen is based in Mömbris .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• since 1987 Pastor Raimund Merget (former dean of the Deanery Alzenau)
• since 2004 auxiliary bishop Helmut Bauer (auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Würzburg)

Sons and daughters of the church

• Domkapitular Ivo Fischer (born December 25, 1881 in Mömbris, † April 28, 1937 in Würzburg). 1907 ordained priest in Würzburg, 1909 chaplain in the cathedral parish of Würzburg, 1914–1928 cathedral vicar and episcopal secretary, 1928 cathedral capitular until death. In addition to pastoral duties, he performed numerous other tasks, e.g. B. he headed the art department in the episcopal ordinariate and looked after the diocesan archive
• Father Ivo Zeiger SJ (born July 29, 1898 in Mömbris, † December 24, 1952 in Munich ), professor of canon law, 1939 rector of the Germanicum in Rome and 1945 papal diplomat in Kronberg im Taunus . In his memory, the community named the primary school Ivo-Zeiger-Schule , built in 1959, and the church community center Ivo-Zeiger-Haus . Father Ivo Zeiger is buried in the Jesuit cemetery in Pullach near Munich
• Fritz Amrhein (born April 24, 1928 in Mömbris, † May 5, 2000 in Hösbach). Dr. jur., Director of the Aschaffenburg District Court (1972–1983), President of the Aschaffenburg District Court (1983 until retirement), recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• Helmut Bauer , (born March 18, 1933 in Schimborn). Studied philosophy and theology in Würzburg, ordained priest on July 21, 1957, also in Würzburg. On July 11, 1988 appointment as auxiliary bishop by Pope John Paul II. The first official act as auxiliary bishop was the consecration of the altar of the church in Daxberg. Released from office on March 18, 2008.
• Roland Lohkamp (born June 10, 1944 in Mömbris), Ambassador to Luxembourg and Bucharest
• Peter Behl (born February 12, 1966 in Mömbris), wrestler in the Greco-Roman style. Five times German champion, 1983 vice world champion of the juniors, 1988 fifth at the Summer Olympics in Seoul
• Johannes Zenglein (born September 12, 1986 in Aschaffenburg), place of origin: Mömbris-Mensengesäß, radio and television presenter

Personalities who have worked on site

• Heinrich Degen (born October 2, 1902 in Burgbrohl , † March 9, 1970 in Mömbris), district administrator of the former district of Alzenau .
• Raimund Merget, 1970–1986 pastor of Mömbris, idea generator and co-designer for many social institutions, u. a. Initiator and builder of the Ivo-Zeiger-Haus
• Anton Reising, 1951–1986 mayor, significantly involved in restructuring the community; Initiator of the so-called core redevelopment, a reorganization of the urban center of the place.
• Felix Wissel (born November 1, 1978 in Alzenau-Wasserlos) is a German Bundesliga wrestler and mayor of the Mömbris market.

literature

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatforschung (Ed.): Heimatjahrbuch Unser Kahlgrund , 1956–2007
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatforschung (Ed.): Wayside shrines and field monuments of the Alzenau district , 1971
• Bierschneider, Wilhelm: Lower Franconia Historical data from cities, municipalities and districts, 2003
• Eichelsbacher, Josef August: Heimatbuch des Kahlgrundes, Part I, History and Legends , 1928
• Eichelsbacher, Josef August: Heimatbuch des Kahlgrundes, Part II, Land and People , 1930
• Griebel, Emil: Chronicle of the Mömbris market , 1982
• History Association Mömbris: Contributions to the history of the market community Mömbris , 1st issue 1991, 2nd issue 1993
• Schmittner, Monika: "... there are a number of subversive elements here", persecution and resistance 1933–1945 in the city and country of Aschaffenburg. Frankfurt, 1985.
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Mömbris . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 795 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Mömbris  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local history museum district Gunzenbach
• Mill Museum Strötzbach
• Mömbris market website
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: detailed information from www.kahltal.de )
• Entry on the Mömbris coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Private website about Königshofen
• Mömbris: 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} Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
4. ↑ Population figures market Mömbris (as of December 31, 2013)
5. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/212810&attr=OBJ&val= 1549
6. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk online - Reportage Land und Menschen (January 2007) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
7. ^ Article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Kuriose Flurbereinigung , January 4, 2007
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Our Kahlgrund 2004 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328 .
9. ↑ Reihold Hein (ed.): Kahlgrünner Wörderbuch . M. Kroeber GmbH, Linsengericht 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-051705-1 .
10. ↑ ^{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. 150 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
11. ↑ Schmittner, Monika: ... there are a number of anti-subversive elements here. Persecution and resistance 1933–1945 in the city and country of Aschaffenburg . Frankfurt, 1985. pp. 134-143
12. ^ ^{A b c} Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, municipalities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 418 .
13. ↑ ^{a b c} 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 736 .
14. ↑ Sat1 news: Severe weather in Lower Franconia
15. ↑ 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
16. ^ Result of the 2014 municipal council election on March 16, 2014 - Markt Mömbris , accessed on July 11, 2014
17. ^ Result of the 2014 mayoral election on March 16, 2014 - Markt Mömbris , accessed on July 12, 2014