Main-Rhön planning region
The Main-Rhön planning region is one of a total of 18 planning regions in the Free State of Bavaria and the only one that encompasses a geographically closed area with natural boundaries. It has also been called the Schweinfurt / Main-Rhön region colloquially, especially in recent times, for easier orientation . The region with five spas , including three Bavarian state baths , was called the Bavarian bath region , especially after it was founded . The area was shaped exceptionally strongly by the landed nobility and has therefore recently been given the nickname Deutscher Burgenwinkel .
structure
The Main-Rhön planning region is located in northern Bavaria. The following bodies are united in the regional planning association: the independent city of Schweinfurt , the districts of Bad Kissingen , Haßberge , Rhön-Grabfeld and Schweinfurt as well as the associated district communities.
Until 2016 the independent city of Schweinfurt was the only regional center . It is by far the largest and economically strongest city in the planning region, its only university location and core of the only metropolitan area , with around 120,000 inhabitants, in the otherwise rural region, with a high level of recreational value. Since 2016 Bad Kissingen and Bad Neustadt an der Saale have been a joint second regional center. Middle centers are Bad Brückenau , Gerolzhofen , Hammelburg and Haßfurt . In 1995, 452,065 inhabitants lived in the region on an area of 3991 km².
geography
The diamond shape of the Main-Rhön planning region reflects its natural boundaries. In the northwest with the Rhön , in the northeast the foothills of the Thuringian Forest and the Haßberge , in the southeast the Steigerwald and in the southwest the Gramschatzer Forest . Which is why the region represents a microcosm in terms of its climate and its agricultural diversity and tradition that goes far beyond spatial planning. The planning region forms an economically and geographically closed unit like hardly any other region.
The area of responsibility of many authorities and institutions is congruent with the planning region, right down to the area of the telephone directory (No. 68). Which is why the planning region is not administratively but structurally very close to a French department , right down to the area, number of inhabitants and the number of districts that correspond to the arrondissements .
As a result of the fall of the Iron Curtain , the economic geographic location of the Main-Rhön planning region changed fundamentally. Schweinfurt became a motorway junction in the federal German center and the region is now known as Bavaria's German center .
history
The Main-Rhön region, which stretches mostly north and east of Schweinfurt, was strongly influenced by the landed nobility and has a density of castles and palaces like hardly any other region in Germany.
In 1972 the Free State of Bavaria was divided into 18 planning regions on the basis of the Bavarian State Planning Act of 1970. The Regional Planning Association bears the number 3 and was created on April 18, 1973.
Chair
The association's chairman is currently Thomas Bold , district administrator of the Bad Kissingen district.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Territorial conditions in Lower Franconia 1792. (PDF) Retrieved on February 14, 2018 .
- ^ Lower Franconian Dialect Institute at the University of Würzburg: Territorial Relationships in Lower Franconia 1792. Retrieved on February 14, 2018 .
