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This article deals with the community of Sommerkahl ; for the river of the same name see Sommerkahl (Speckkahl) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′  N , 9 ° 15 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Aschaffenburg
Management Community :	Schöllkrippen
Height :	220 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.46 km 2
Residents:	1247 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	228 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	63825
Area code :	06024
License plate :	AB , ALZ
Community key :	09 6 71 153
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Schulstrasse 12 63825 Sommerkahl
Website :	www.gemeinde-sommerkahl.de
Mayor :	Albin Schäfer ( CSU )
Location of the community of Sommerkahl in the Aschaffenburg district

Municipal area with districts of Sommerkahl

Sommerkahl is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg and a member of the Schöllkrippen administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Sommerkahl is located in the Bavarian Lower Main region in the Kahlgrund on the Sommerkahl of the same name ( Speckkahl ). The topographically highest point of the community is located east of Sommerkahl am Finkenborn at 353  m above sea level. NN (location) , the lowest is on the Kahl near Blankenbach at 191  m above sea level. NN (location) . The Degen path runs through the village .

Community structure

There are two districts in the municipality:

District	Area (ha)
Summer bald	544
Schöllkrippen Forest	2
Sommerkahl community	546

The two places corresponding to the districts are distributed over the area of ​​Sommerkahl:

District Ort	Residents	Height (m below sea level)
Summer bald	891	220
Vormwald	245	300
Sommerkahl community	1136

To the east of Sommerkahl are two small exclaves in the municipality in the area of ​​the Speckkahlquelle. The Schöllkrippener Forst is a second, uninhabited district (not a district), which should not be confused with the municipality-free area of the same name .

The former districts of Obersommerkahl and Untersommerkahl are now structurally grown together and form the district of Sommerkahl.

Neighboring communities

	Schöllkrippen market	Schöllkrippener Forst (community-free area)
Community Blankenbach		community Heigenbrücken
Sailauf parish	Sailaufer Forst (municipality-free area)

Surname

etymology

The name Sommerkahl is derived from the stream of the same name, Sommerkahl , which flows into the Kahl near Langenborn .

Earlier spellings

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

1250 Sunderkalden 1282 Sunderkalde 1380 summer cold

1514 Sunderkalde 1532 Somerkale 1625 summer bald

history

The oldest part of the village is Untersommerkahl . This farming settlement is mentioned in the 13th century and supplemented by the mining settlement Obersommerkahl in the late Middle Ages. At the same time, the district of Vor dem Walde (Vormwald) was built on the mountain slope in the 16th and 17th centuries .

From 1542 to 1922 copper was mined in the district. Nowadays, the visitor mine Grube Wilhelmine gives a detailed insight into historical mining.

See also : List of mines in the Spessart

Sommerkahl belonged to four states: from 982 to 1803 to the Electorate of Mainz , from 1803 to 1810 to the Principality of Aschaffenburg , from 1810 to 1814 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , from 1814 to the present day to the Kingdom or Free State of Bavaria.

The community of Sommerkahl 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 . With its dissolution, Sommerkahl came to the newly formed district of Aschaffenburg on July 1, 1972 .

politics

Municipal council

After the last local election on March 16, 2014, the local council has twelve members. The turnout was 61.2%. The choice brought the following result:

	CSU	6 seats	(45.8%)
	SPD	3 seats	(26.4%)
	Free community of voters	3 seats	(27.8%)

mayor

Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the mayor. Since June 7th 2011 this is Albin Schäfer; he was confirmed in office for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 87.2% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon

An overturned silver mallet and a overturned silver hammer crossed diagonally in red over a lowered, narrow silver wavy bar, underneath a horizontal golden oak leaf.

Coat of arms history

In the upper part of the coat of arms, the miners' mallet and hammer are a reminder of the copper mines and iron mining that have been documented for the municipality since 1542. In 1922 mining was stopped. To commemorate the end of mining, the tools in the coat of arms fell. The wave bar represents the geographic location of the municipality on the river Kahl . The oak leaf indicates the oak-rich Spessart in which the place is located. The colors red and silver stand for the Electorate of Mainz , to which Sommerkahl belonged from 982 to 1803.

The coat of arms was awarded on February 7, 1972.

Parish church

school

Parish partnership

Sommerkahl has had a partnership with the former municipality of Geußnitz (now part of the city of Zeitz ) in Saxony-Anhalt since 1992 .

Religions

• Catholic parish Mater Dolorosa in Sommerkahl
• Evangelical Church of St. Markus in Schöllkrippen

Infrastructure

traffic

Road connections

These motorways are nearby with connections:

• Autobahn A3 (via connection Hösbach, 13 km), to Frankfurt- Süd (approx. 44 km away) and Würzburg (approx. 72 km away).
• A 45 (via connection Alzenau-Nord, 20 km), to Gießen (approx. 75 km away) and Frankfurt-Ost (approx. 28 km away)
• A 66 (via connection Gelnhausen / West, 18 km), to Fulda (approx. 61 km away) and Hanau / Frankfurt-Ost (A66, approx. 28 and 40 km away)

Bus connection

To Aschaffenburg (approx. 18 km) or Schöllkrippen (approx. 3 km), via Westerngrund (approx. 8 km) to Gelnhausen (approx. 16 km).

Rail connections

• From Blankenbach or Schöllkrippen (approx. 3 km) to Hanau (approx. 30 km) with the Kahl – Schöllkrippen railway line .
• From Aschaffenburg (approx. 18 km, ICE train station) to Frankfurt or Würzburg / Munich with the DB .
• From Gelnhausen (approx. 16 km) via Hanau to Frankfurt or Fulda with the DB .

Airport

The closest airport is Frankfurt am Main Airport (approx. 65 km).

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Sommerkahl

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Sommerkahl

Buildings

The school in Sommerkahl was ready for occupancy on August 1, 1936. The demolition material from the Wilhelmine mine provided part of the building material, mainly stones, iron girders and wood. On October 25, 1959, the extension building was handed over to its intended purpose.

There is also the catholic parish church Mater Dolorosa in Sommerkahl . When the church was built, the foundation stone was laid on May 10, 1959. The first service was held on the 4th Advent in 1960.

There is also the former copper mine Grube Wilhelmine . From 1542 to 1922 copper was mined there, initially above ground and from 1871 also underground. Guided tours are offered through the tunnels of the mine and the attached museum. Every year, on the last weekend before the 1st Advent, the Barbaramarkt takes place in and around the mine ( Saint Barbara is the patroness of the miners).

Mills

The first written mention of a mill (lower mill ) in Sommerkahl was in 1633. In 1837 Sommerkahl had five mills. Starting with the upper reaches of the Sommerkahl, with the upper mill at the mine . This is followed by the Glasersmühle, later called Gertsmühle. Then the Geßnersmühle. The Pfaffsmühle and the Untermühle, also called Antonsmühle, follow in the former district of Untersommerkahl. The mills were customer and trading mills that ground grain, especially rye and wheat, into black and white bread. In 1955 the upper mill was already shut down. This was followed by the closure of the other mills over the next 15 years.

education

The following facilities exist: Kindergarten: For children from 1–6 years, primary school: 88 pupils from the communities of Sommerkahl and Blankenbach (status: school year 2018/19)

Special occurrence

In 1944 a night fighter , a Junkers Ju 88 , crashed into the forest near Sommerkahl. In 2014 a memorial was erected near the crash site.

Personalities

• Leni Rüth, a resident of the village, housed the Jew Elfriede Otto born in the winter of 1944 to 1945. Fleischmann and her son Joachim-Peter from Apolda , who went into hiding in the face of imminent deportation , and thus saved their lives.
• Herbert Stenger (1948–2014), German hill climber
• Heiko Westermann (* 1983), 27-time German national soccer player (4 goals), ended his career in April 2018 after a knee injury.

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=[phone]/222002&attr=OBJ&val= 1553
3. ↑ http://www.vg-schoellkrippen.de/index.php?id=297 Community of Sommerkahl | Facts & Figures | Residents (as of August 19, 2014)
4. ↑ ^{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. 209 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
5. ↑ http://www.google.de/search?q=flugzeugabsturz+sommerkahl&oq=flugzeugabsturz&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j69i59j0l4.8095j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-
6. ↑ Peter Franz / Udo Wohlfeld: The Fleischmanns. A Jewish family in Apolda. = found 5, series of publications by the Prager-Haus Apolda e. V., p. 79 ff., Apolda 2009, ISBN 3-935275-11-0

Web links

Commons : Sommerkahl  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry on the coat of arms of Sommerkahl  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Wilhelmine copper mine
• Sommerkahl: Official statistics of the LfStat