Mönchberg

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Mönchberg
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Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '  N , 9 ° 16'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Franconia
County : Miltenberg
Management Community : Mönchberg
Height : 254 m above sea level NHN
Area : 24.15 km 2
Residents: 2576 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 107 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 63933
Area code : 09374
License plate : MIL, OBB
Community key : 09 6 76 141
Market structure: 2 districts

Market administration address : 		Hauptstrasse 44
63933 Mönchberg
Website : www.moenchberg.de
Mayor : Thomas Zöller ( BBM )
Location of the Mönchberg market in the Miltenberg district
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Mönchberg is a market in the Lower Franconian district of Miltenberg , the seat of the Mönchberg administrative community and a state-approved climatic health resort .

geography

Geographical location

Mönchberg is located in the Bavarian part of the Spessart , 13 km from the district town of Miltenberg , 30 km from Aschaffenburg , 69 km from Frankfurt am Main and 76 km from Würzburg . The topographically highest point of the municipality is at 512  m above sea level. NN (location) on the summit of the Geiersberg southeast of Mönchberg, the lowest is on the Aubach at the Braunwarthsmühle at 174  m above sea level. NN (location) .

Community structure

The municipality of Mönchberg has two districts :

Neighboring communities

Elsenfeld market
 Eschau market
Cities
Erlenbach am Main
and
Klingenberg am Main 		Neighboring communities Community
Collenberg
community
Röllbach

Neighboring communities are in the west Klingenberg and Erlenbach (with the districts Mechenhard and Streit), in the north Eschau , in the east Collenberg (located on the Main ) and immediately adjacent in the south Röllbach .

Surname

etymology

It is often wrongly assumed that the name Mönchberg has something to do with a monk and a mountain . But it is made up of the old words Manno and gebûr . The Middle High German word gebûr means houses or buildings. Manno is a very old personal name. Mannogebûr are therefore the houses of Manno .

Earlier spellings

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

  • 1150 male urns
  • 1250 Mennegebuer
  • 1272 Menigebure
  • 1287 Mengebur
  • 1300 Mangebur
  • 1345 Meingebur
  • 1367 Menegebur
  • 1396 Mengwer
  • 1594 Meingswert
  • 1668 Mönchberg

history

Mönchberg ("Meingswert") in the Spessart map by Paul Pfinzing from 1594 (north is on the right)

It is no longer possible to reconstruct when the site was created. The place name, however, indicates an old Franconian settlement. The place was originally (around 800 AD) a post office on the way from Würzburg via Wertheim to Aschaffenburg. The name Manno Gebur refers to the building of Manno, the first owner of this station. The castle Mennegebühr or Mengeburen founded there is first mentioned in a document in 1215 and the place of the same name in 1250. The place belonged to Kurmainz for around 800 years . In 1401 Mönchberg already had its own parish with its own church . In the Middle Ages authorized Emperor Charles IV. Archbishop Gerlach of Mainz the village , the town charter with its own jurisdiction to give. At the same time Mönchberg got the right to build a city ​​fortification , as well as market rights . The place on the Spessart gained prosperity through forestry and handicrafts . Because of the remote location (away from the trade routes and settlement areas on the Main ), Mönchberg was ultimately unable to develop further, so that the town charter, which today is basically only granted to communities with more than 5000 inhabitants, had to be given up again. The market law , however, remained. After the end of the Electorate of Mainz, Mönchberg was in the Principality of Aschaffenburg from 1803 to 1810 and thus in the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt from 1810 to 1813 . It was not until 1814 that Mönchberg came to the Kingdom of Bavaria . As a result of the wars of liberation against Napoleon Bonaparte following the Vienna Congress in 1814/15 had Bayern's Austrian gains in the Treaty of Munich largely give up again, but got to balance parts of the Palatinate and the Franconian areas around Wuerzburg and Aschaffenburg .

In 1862 the district office of Obernburg was formed, on whose administrative area Mönchberg was located. As everywhere in the German Reich , the term district was introduced in 1939. Mönchberg was now one of the 35 communities in the district of Obernburg am Main . With the dissolution of the district of Obernburg, Mönchberg came to the newly formed district of Miltenberg on July 1, 1972 .

Today the old city ​​wall is still preserved, which can be seen, for example, at the music pavilion in the rose garden. The last remains of the castle, however, were torn down in 1968. The place has numerous medieval buildings and half-timbered houses . One of the oldest wayside shrines on the Lower Main is on the main road . This is dated to the middle of the 15th century and contains a representation of Saint Martin in the shaft , which suggests that Mönchberg belonged to the original parish of St. Martin in Wörth .

The place has a baroque parish church built by master builder Johann Martin Schmitt from Miltenberg . The foundation stone was laid in 1749. The church has baroque furnishings, most of which are in their original state and were supplemented in 1899 by various features.

politics

City council election 2020
Turnout: 76.08%
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
32.27%
52.00%
15.72%
BBM b
WGS c
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Remarks:
b Mönchberg citizens' block
c Schmachtenberg voter community

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 14 members who are divided between the following parties and groups of voters:

Allocation of seats in the Mönchberg municipal council for the 2020–2026 term of office
   
A total of 14 seats
  • Mönchberg Citizens' Block : 7
  • WGS : 2
  • CSU : 5
Landscape near Mönchberg

The distribution of seats is unchanged as in the previous term of office 2014–2020.

mayor

Thomas Zöller (* 1968) (Bürgerblock Mönchberg) has been the mayor since May 2008, he was confirmed in office in 2014 and elected on March 15, 2020 with 70.3 percent of the votes for a further six years.

Municipal coat of arms

Blazon : split by silver and red; in front a spontaneous (half pike) with blue leaf, golden tassel and black shaft; behind, under a crown of golden leaves, a six-spoke silver wheel.

Architectural monuments

Leisure and Tourism

Of great importance for the region and a main attraction of the market, is the 1992 renovated and heated outdoor pool - called "Spessartbad". Public tennis courts , a music pavilion and a water treading facility offer further leisure options .

Thanks to its recognition as a climatic health resort and its location in the Spessart, Mönchberg is a popular destination for hikers and tourists . There are 90 km of marked hiking trails in and around Mönchberg.

There are also numerous excursion destinations nearby, such as the Mespelbrunn moated castle , the district town of Miltenberg and the wine town of Klingenberg .

Oddities

The Mönchbergers are known for their compliance with the law. In the past, they repeatedly invoked their old rights (Weisthum of 1396). It was said of the Mönchberg farmers that “they had the code of law hanging on the plow ”. This brought the Mönchbergers the nickname - Ortsneckname "law books". In 1987 a theater group was founded in Mönchberg called "The Law Books".

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=+20111123/194620&attr=OBJ&val= 1700
  3. ↑ a b Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 150–151 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Samuel Christoph Wagner: Handbook of the most excellent antiquities from pagan times discovered in Germany , Weimar 1842, p. 444, here referring to Johann Wilhelm Christian Steiner (probably to his history and topography of the Main region and the Spessart under the Romans , Darmstadt 1834)
  5. ↑ Local council election Markt Mönchberg 2020, overall result
  6. ↑ Werner Trost Stampes, Worzelköpp and Staffelbrunzer Lkr.Miltenberg 2003
  7. ↑ Website of the Mönchberg theater group “Die Gesetzbücher” ( memento of the original from September 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diegesetzbuecher.de

literature

Web links

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