Unterafferbach

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Unterafferbach
Goldbach market
Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 11 ″  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 188 m
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
St. Wendelin in Unterafferbach
St. Wendelin in Unterafferbach

Unterafferbach is part of the Goldbach market in the Bavarian district of Aschaffenburg .

geography

The church village is located on the western edge of the Spessart in the low-development valley level of the Afferbach . The topographically highest point of the village mark is on the Fockenberg west of Breunsberg at 320  m above sea level. NN , the lowest is on the Afferbach at 173  m above sea level. NN .

Surname

The old high German word “affoldra”, West Germanic “apuldro”, Anglo-Saxon “apuldr”, which means apple tree, has been preserved in the place name . In Middle High German it is called "affolter". The old age of the word is linguistically proven, with it the place name itself.

history

The burial mounds in the forest between Goldbach and Unterafferbach give evidence of early settlement of Unterafferbach during the Neolithic period , the first time in documents but Unterafferbach is first mentioned under the name "Affalderbach" in Mainz lifting role in the early 1260th

In 1812 the village of Unterafferbach, with 32 fireplaces and 180 souls (inhabitants), belonged to the Kaltenberg district fairie in the Aschaffenburg department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, which had replaced the Kaltenberg bailiwick office. Mayor was Valentin Kraus, adjunct Michel Kraus. After the transfer to the Crown of Bavaria, Unterafferbach belonged to the second class district court of Kaltenberg, which was established on October 1, 1814. After the resolutions of June 30, 1828 and January 8 and 14, 1829, the Kaltenberg Regional Court was dissolved. Unterafferbach came to the Aschaffenburg district court. In 1833 Unterafferbach consisted of 32 houses, 226 inhabitants and a mill. On July 1, 1862, the district office of Aschaffenburg was formed, on whose administrative area Unterafferbach was located. In 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. Unterafferbach was now one of the 33 communities in the old district of Aschaffenburg . On July 1, 1972, this merged with the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia to form the new Aschaffenburg district.

Unterafferbach had its own chapel as early as the 14th century . Today's church under the patronage of St. Wendelin was consecrated in 1928.

The first schoolhouse was built in 1812. The school teacher at that time was Mr. Anton Kraus. Before that, the children had to go to Goldbach for lessons . In 1879 the Unterafferbach volunteer fire brigade was founded. The town received its first telephone connection on June 6, 1906, and in 1922 it was connected to the power grid. Unterafferbach was very rural well into the 20th century, but meanwhile there are hardly any rural farms.

On July 1, 1971 Unterafferbach was incorporated into Goldbach as part of the regional reform .

Soil monuments

Personalities

  • Hans Kraus (1879–1952), economist and politician born in Unterafferbach, Bavarian State Minister of Finance

literature

  • Unterafferbach - village on the edge of the Spessart , municipality of Goldbach

Individual evidence

  1. Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 422 .