Frammersbach
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Frammersbach is a market community in the Main-Spessart district
in the Regierungsbezirk
of Lower Franconia
(Unterfranken) in Bavaria
, Germany
.
und Aschaffenburg
, in the middle of the Spessart
Nature Park (Naturpark Spessart). The community has the following Gemarkungen (traditional rural cadastral areas): Frammersbach and Habichsthal.
, the Bronze Age
and the Iron Age
. The locality was systematically settled at the time when the Franks
took the land. The old tithe
court of Frammersbach belonged to the Catholic parish of Lohrhaupten. In 1339, Frammersbach had its first documentary mention, and in 1553 it transferred to the Evangelical Church, only to return to the Catholic fold in 1605. A window on the formerly important waggoners’ village is found in the Sechserbuch – a book mainly about Frammersbach’s Feldgeschworene, the traditional boundary keepers who decided where the community’s limits were and were charged with marking them – which describes the state of affairs in a Spessart
community in the waning years of the Middle Ages
and the onset of the modern era, in particular the records of the village court’s rulings between 1572 and 1764. The former Electoral Mainz
Amt passed along with the village in the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to Prince Primate
von Dalberg’s
newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg
, with which it passed in 1814 (by this time it had become a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt) to Bavaria under the terms of the Treaties of Paris. In the 20th century, home tailoring became an important industry in Frammersbach, as did Alfons Müller-Wipperfürth’s clothing factory after the Second World War.
In 1975 came the amalgamation of Habichsthal. The main community itself comprises the Ortsteile of Herbertshain, Frammersbach, Hofreith and Schwartel.
The market community of Frammersbach has grown into a commercial centre and has regional supply functions for the community of Partenstein
lying to the south and the community of Flörsbachtal
lying to the north, just across the boundary in Hesse
as well as the community of Jossgrund
. The feeder area of the lesser centre of Frammersbach is home to roughly 18,500 inhabitants. Frammersbach lies on the Partenstein-Frammersbach-Wiesen-Aschaffenburg regional development axis.
might be described thus: Per pale argent a waggoner vert and gules in chief a wheel of the first spoked of six and in base three closets Or.
The wheel is the Wheel of Mainz
, and the closets (that is, narrow horizontal bars) are drawn from the arms borne by the Counts of Rieneck
, which themselves go back to those borne by the Counts of Loon.
276, going north-south, and Staatsstraße (State Road) 2305, going east-west.
The nearest Autobahn interchanges
are:
Frammersbach is linked to local transport on weekdays through the following bus routes:
Frammersbach has no direct link to the DB
railway network. The nearest railway station is at Partenstein, 5 km away. Railway goods transport is handled through the station at Lohr am Main, 13 km away. Both stations lie on DB’s Nuremberg-Frankfurt mainline.
The nearest airport is Frankfurt Airport
, which can be reached on the A 3 or the A 66. The distance is about 80 km, while Nuremberg Airport
lies roughly 160 km away.
, Calvados
, Basse-Normandie
, France
since 1988 Mecseknádasd
, Baranya County, Hungary
since 11 October 2003
The latter place is home to descendants of emigrants from Frammersbach who still speak a dialect of German
rather like the one spoken in Frammersbach.
Jáchymov
, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic
This is a sponsorship arrangement initiated on 14 May 1977 by former citizens from St. Jochimsthal’s (now called Jáchymov) outlying centre of Dürnberg (now called Suchá) who after being driven out of their old homeland
came to live in Frammersbach. Both regions were protected forests (Bannwälder) where one could settle only on the edges. In both areas was an Eselsweg (“ass’s way”) and in each was a village with a greater than average number of people working in goods transport, Frammersbach in the Spessart and Reischdorf (now called Rusová) in the Ore Mountains.
Main-Spessart
Main-Spessart is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Bad Kissingen, Schweinfurt and Würzburg, the state of Baden-Württemberg , the districts of Miltenberg and Aschaffenburg, and the state of Hesse .-History:The district was established in 1972 by merging the former...
in the Regierungsbezirk
Regierungsbezirk
In Germany, a Government District, in German: Regierungsbezirk – is a subdivision of certain federal states .They are above the Kreise, Landkreise, and kreisfreie Städte...
of Lower Franconia
Lower Franconia
Lower Franconia is one of the three administrative regions of Franconia in Bavaria , Germany ....
(Unterfranken) in Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
Location
This state-recognized recreational centre lies between WürzburgWürzburg
Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....
und Aschaffenburg
Aschaffenburg
Aschaffenburg is a city in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not considered part of the district of Aschaffenburg, but is the administrative seat.Aschaffenburg is known as the Tor zum Spessart or "gate to the Spessart"...
, in the middle of the Spessart
Spessart
The Spessart is a low mountain range in northwestern Bavaria and southern Hesse, Germany. It is bordered on three sides by the Main River. The two most important towns located at the foot of the Spessart are Aschaffenburg and Würzburg....
Nature Park (Naturpark Spessart). The community has the following Gemarkungen (traditional rural cadastral areas): Frammersbach and Habichsthal.
History
There has been the odd find from the Stone AgeStone Age
The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period, lasting about 2.5 million years , during which humans and their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporary genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus, widely used exclusively stone as their hard material in the...
, the Bronze Age
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age...
and the Iron Age
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the archaeological period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron. The early period of the age is characterized by the widespread use of iron or steel. The adoption of such material coincided with other changes in society, including differing...
. The locality was systematically settled at the time when the Franks
Franks
The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes first attested in the third century AD as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul. Only the Salian Franks formed a...
took the land. The old tithe
Tithe
A tithe is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government. Today, tithes are normally voluntary and paid in cash, cheques, or stocks, whereas historically tithes were required and paid in kind, such as agricultural products...
court of Frammersbach belonged to the Catholic parish of Lohrhaupten. In 1339, Frammersbach had its first documentary mention, and in 1553 it transferred to the Evangelical Church, only to return to the Catholic fold in 1605. A window on the formerly important waggoners’ village is found in the Sechserbuch – a book mainly about Frammersbach’s Feldgeschworene, the traditional boundary keepers who decided where the community’s limits were and were charged with marking them – which describes the state of affairs in a Spessart
Spessart
The Spessart is a low mountain range in northwestern Bavaria and southern Hesse, Germany. It is bordered on three sides by the Main River. The two most important towns located at the foot of the Spessart are Aschaffenburg and Würzburg....
community in the waning years of the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
and the onset of the modern era, in particular the records of the village court’s rulings between 1572 and 1764. The former Electoral Mainz
Archbishopric of Mainz
The Archbishopric of Mainz or Electorate of Mainz was an influential ecclesiastic and secular prince-bishopric in the Holy Roman Empire between 780–82 and 1802. In the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy, the Archbishop of Mainz was the primas Germaniae, the substitute of the Pope north of the Alps...
Amt passed along with the village in the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to Prince Primate
Prince primate
Prince-Primate is a rare princely title held by individual archbishops of specific sees in a presiding capacity in an august assembly of mainly secular princes, notably the following:-Germany - Confederation of the Rhine:The Rheinbund or 'Confederation of the Rhine' was founded in 1806, when several...
von Dalberg’s
Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg
Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg was Archbishop-Elector of Mainz, Arch-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Regensburg, primate of the Confederation of the Rhine and Grand-Duke of Frankfurt.-Biography:...
newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg
Principality of Aschaffenburg
The Principality of Aschaffenburg was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and the Confederation of the Rhine from 1803–10. Its capital was Aschaffenburg....
, with which it passed in 1814 (by this time it had become a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt) to Bavaria under the terms of the Treaties of Paris. In the 20th century, home tailoring became an important industry in Frammersbach, as did Alfons Müller-Wipperfürth’s clothing factory after the Second World War.
In 1975 came the amalgamation of Habichsthal. The main community itself comprises the Ortsteile of Herbertshain, Frammersbach, Hofreith and Schwartel.
Community planning
The market community of Frammersbach has been involved in the Bund-Länder-Förderungsprogramm III - Stadtumbau West since 2006, within the framework of which the community core is to be overhauled between 2007 and 2012 on the groundwork laid by citizen participation. Since 2003 has come the creation of a community concept.The market community of Frammersbach has grown into a commercial centre and has regional supply functions for the community of Partenstein
Partenstein
Partenstein is a community in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany and the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Partenstein...
lying to the south and the community of Flörsbachtal
Flörsbachtal
Flörsbachtal is a municipality in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hesse, Germany....
lying to the north, just across the boundary in Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
as well as the community of Jossgrund
Jossgrund
Jossgrund is a municipality in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hesse, Germany....
. The feeder area of the lesser centre of Frammersbach is home to roughly 18,500 inhabitants. Frammersbach lies on the Partenstein-Frammersbach-Wiesen-Aschaffenburg regional development axis.
Coat of arms
The community’s armsCoat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
might be described thus: Per pale argent a waggoner vert and gules in chief a wheel of the first spoked of six and in base three closets Or.
The wheel is the Wheel of Mainz
Wheel of Mainz
thumb|150px|version until 1992thumb|150px|version from 1992 - 2008thumb|150px|version from 2008The Wheel of Mainz or Mainzer Rad, in German, was the coat of arms of the Archbishopric of Mainz and thus also of the Electorate of Mainz , in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It consists of a silver wheel...
, and the closets (that is, narrow horizontal bars) are drawn from the arms borne by the Counts of Rieneck
County of Rieneck
The County of Rieneck was a comital domain within the Holy Roman Empire that lay in what is now northwestern Bavaria...
, which themselves go back to those borne by the Counts of Loon.
Transport
Through Frammersbach run BundesstraßeBundesstraße
Bundesstraße , abbreviated B, is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways.-Germany:...
276, going north-south, and Staatsstraße (State Road) 2305, going east-west.
The nearest Autobahn interchanges
Interchange (road)
In the field of road transport, an interchange is a road junction that typically uses grade separation, and one or more ramps, to permit traffic on at least one highway to pass through the junction without directly crossing any other traffic stream. It differs from a standard intersection, at which...
are:
- on the A 3 towards FrankfurtFrankfurtFrankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
, the HösbachHösbachHösbach is a market community in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany.-Location:...
interchange (32 km), and towards NurembergNurembergNuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
, the Rottendorf interchange (64 km); - on the A 7 towards KasselKasselKassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
, the HammelburgHammelburgHammelburg is a town in the district of Bad Kissingen, in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Franconian Saale, 25 km west of Schweinfurt...
interchange (48 km), and towards UlmUlmUlm is a city in the federal German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the River Danube. The city, whose population is estimated at 120,000 , forms an urban district of its own and is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau district. Ulm, founded around 850, is rich in history and...
, the Biebelried interchange (68 km); - on the A 66Bundesautobahn 66is an autobahn in southwestern Germany. It connects the Taunus to Fulda, passing close to Frankfurt am Main. The first part of the autobahn between Wiesbaden and the Nordwestkreuz Frankfurt, was opened as early as 1934, then called the Rhein-Main-Schnellweg. It became an autobahn in 1965.The...
towards Frankfurt, the GelnhausenGelnhausenGelnhausen is a town and the capital of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located approx. 40 kilometers east of Frankfurt am Main, between the Vogelsberg mountains and the Spessart range at the river Kinzig...
interchange (30 km), and towards FuldaFuldaFulda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district .- Early Middle Ages :...
, the Bad Orb interchange (28 km).
Frammersbach is linked to local transport on weekdays through the following bus routes:
- Lohr-Partenstein-Frammersbach
- Frammersbach-Habichsthal-Wiesthal
- Frammersbach-Flörsbachtal-Jossgrund-Bad Orb
Frammersbach has no direct link to the DB
Deutsche Bahn
Deutsche Bahn AG is the German national railway company, a private joint stock company . Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany...
railway network. The nearest railway station is at Partenstein, 5 km away. Railway goods transport is handled through the station at Lohr am Main, 13 km away. Both stations lie on DB’s Nuremberg-Frankfurt mainline.
The nearest airport is Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport may refer to:Airports of Frankfurt, Germany:*Frankfurt Airport , the largest airport in Germany*Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport, a general aviation airport*Frankfurt-Hahn Airport , a converted U.S...
, which can be reached on the A 3 or the A 66. The distance is about 80 km, while Nuremberg Airport
Nuremberg Airport
Nuremberg Airport is the international airport of the Franconian metropolitan area of Nuremberg and the second-busiest airport in Bavaria. The airport is ranked 10th among German airports and 87th in Europe. It is also a hub for Air Berlin - Germany's second largest airline...
lies roughly 160 km away.
Schools
- Frammersbach primary school and HauptschuleHauptschuleA Hauptschule is a secondary school in Germany and Austria, starting after 4 years of elementary schooling, which offers Lower Secondary Education according to the International Standard Classification of Education...
(two-stream associated school), - Branch of the folk high schoolFolk high schoolFolk high schools are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal...
in Lohr am Main
Culture
- Gemeinde-Bücherei (libraryLibraryIn a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
) - Fuhrmanns- und Schneidermuseum (waggoners’ and tailors’ museum)
- Mälzereimuseum (malting)
- “Kleine Bühne” im Wirtshaus 1890 (“Little Stage” – cabaret)
Churches
- Pfarrkirche St. Bartholomäus (Saint Bartholomew’s Parish Church)
- Pfarrkirche St. Thekla (Saint Thecla’s Parish Church, in the outlying centre of Habichsthal),
- Evangelische Friedenskirche (EvangelicalEvangelical Church in GermanyThe Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar...
Peace Church) - Kreuzkapelle (Cross Chapel)
Sport and leisure facilities
- Heated outdoor terraced swimming poolSwimming poolA swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...
on a three-hectare plot with four basins, each at a different level, with a water surface area of roughly 2 000 m² - “Orber Straße” sport area
- Skating facility with quarter pipe
- Sport area on the Sauerberg
- Winter sport area on the Sauerberg with ski slope and skilift, cross-country skiingCross-country skiingCross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...
, sledding slope and a managed ski hut - Triple sport hall on the Heuberg with outdoor sport facilities (football and basketball)
- Model aircraftModel aircraftModel aircraft are flying or non-flying models of existing or imaginary aircraft using a variety of materials including plastic, diecast metal, polystyrene, balsa wood, foam and fibreglass...
field run by the Frammersbach Air Sport Club - Starting place for paragliders
- Shooting house with airgun shooting facility
- Forest adventure path and three cultural hiking paths
- Several mountain bike courses; Frammersbach is where the Internationaler Spessart-Bike-Marathon is held, and in 2005 the European championship in mountain bike marathon was held here; It was also a staging point in the CRAFT Bike Trans Germany in 2006
- Water treading (hydrotherapy) facilities in the Lohr and Lauberbach valleys
- Floodplain ponds in Habichsthal
Customs and festivals
- Cock crowing contest on 1 May in the Wellers valley
- Köhlerfest (Charburners’ Festival) at Whitsuntide
- Bike-Marathon in late June
- Orchestral Hoffest after summer’s onset
- Frammersbacher Festtage (Festival Days), but commonly known as Großes Fest (Great Festival), early July
- Fire Brigade Festival at the Kreuzkapelle, late July
- Kirb (kermis, or church consecration festival), late August, at which 17- and 18-year-old youths are welcomed into the world of adulthood. The ceremony is conducted with well established rituals and is closely bound with consuming a great deal of alcohol. It is believed that formerly, young lads from the village celebrated the end of their apprenticeships with this festival.
Town partnerships
OrbecOrbec
Orbec is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.-Population:...
, Calvados
Calvados
The French department of Calvados is part of the region of Basse-Normandie in Normandy. It takes its name from a cluster of rocks off the English Channel coast...
, Basse-Normandie
Basse-Normandie
Lower Normandy is an administrative region of France. It was created in 1956, when the Normandy region was divided into Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
since 1988 Mecseknádasd
Mecseknadasd
Mecseknádasd is a town in Baranya county, Hungary.-Sightseeings:In the cemetery hill there is an old, Árpád-age Romanesque church, which was originally the parish church of the village.In front of the Bishop's Palace is a statue of Franz Liszt....
, Baranya County, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
since 11 October 2003
The latter place is home to descendants of emigrants from Frammersbach who still speak a dialect of German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
rather like the one spoken in Frammersbach.
Jáchymov
Jáchymov
For other places called Joachimsthal, see Joachimsthal Jáchymov . compl: "Sant Joachim's Sthal" is a spa town in north-west Bohemia in the Czech Republic belonging to the Karlovy Vary Region. It is situated at an altitude of 733 m above sea level in the eponymous St...
, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
This is a sponsorship arrangement initiated on 14 May 1977 by former citizens from St. Jochimsthal’s (now called Jáchymov) outlying centre of Dürnberg (now called Suchá) who after being driven out of their old homeland
Heimatvertriebene
Heimatvertriebene are those around 12 million ethnic Germans who fled or were expelled after World War II from parts of Germany annexed by Poland and Russia, and from other countries, who found refuge in both West and East Germany, and Austria...
came to live in Frammersbach. Both regions were protected forests (Bannwälder) where one could settle only on the edges. In both areas was an Eselsweg (“ass’s way”) and in each was a village with a greater than average number of people working in goods transport, Frammersbach in the Spessart and Reischdorf (now called Rusová) in the Ore Mountains.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Burkhard Büdel, lichenLichenLichens are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic organism composed of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner , usually either a green alga or cyanobacterium...
researcher, professor at the University of KaiserslauternKaiserslauternKaiserslautern is a city in southwest Germany, located in the Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate forest . The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfurt am Main, and from Luxembourg.Kaiserslautern is home to 99,469 people... - Johann Bartholomäus Gossmann (b. 1811), philologist, saying collector and poet
- Jakob Franz Steigerwald (b 1822), philosopher and professor of religion at the Aschaffenburg Royal-Theological Boys’ Seminary
External links
- Community’s official webpage
- http://www.markt-frammersbach.de Tourist information/commercial community]
- http://www.fuhrmannundschneidermuseum.de Waggoners’ and Tailors’ Museum]