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Wörth An Der Lafnitz
Wörth or Woerth may refer to: Places Germany *Wörth am Main, Miltenberg district, Bavaria *Wörth am Rhein, Germersheim district, Rhineland-Palatinate *Wörth an der Donau, Regensburg district, Bavaria *Wörth an der Isar, Landshut district, Bavaria *Wörth, Upper Bavaria, Erding district, Bavaria *Donauwörth, Donau-Ries district, Bavaria *Wörth, Worthsee, an island in Lake Wörth, Bavaria, Germany Elsewhere *Wœrth, a town in Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France *Wörth Castle, Neuhausen am Rheinfall in the canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland *Lake Wörth (other), multiple lakes Other uses *SMS Wörth, SMS ''Wörth'', an 1892 ship of the German Navy *Battle of Wœrth, fought in 1870, near Wœrth, Alsace, France *Éric Woerth (born 1956), French politician {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wörth Am Main
Wörth am Main (, ; officially ') is a town in the Miltenberg (district), Miltenberg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany. It has a population of around 4,700. Geography Location Wörth am Main lies on the left bank of the Main (river), Main, nestled between the hills of the Odenwald and Spessart, northwest of Miltenberg, and south of Aschaffenburg. Wörth lies in the Bavarian section of the ''Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald''. History It is believed that Ancient Rome, Roman soldiers built a simple earthen-wooden Castra, castrum in Wörth as early as Roman Emperor Domitian’s time (AD 81–96), and later a massive stone castrum. In Franks, Frankish times, beginning in the 6th century, Wörth was a centre of royal power and with Saint Martin’s Chapel, in today’s graveyard, it was a jumping-off point for Christianity, Christian missionary work in the Odenwald. The town was refounded on its current site in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
