Frankenwinheim is a village in the district of Schweinfurt in

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and part of ''

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'' Gerolzhofen.

Geography

Frankenwinheim is in the Main Rhön region, circa 20 kilometers south of

Schweinfurt Schweinfurt ( , ; ) is a town#Germany, city in the district of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the surrounding Schweinfurt (district), district (''Landkreis'') of Schweinfurt and a major industrial, cultur ...

. Frankenheim is divided into Frankenwinheim and Brünnstadt

History

Frankenwinheim was first mentioned in the year 779 A.D. and is thus already over 1240 years old. Formerly the village was part of the principality of

Wiesentheid Wiesentheid is a municipality in the district of Kitzingen in Bavaria in Germany. History It was first mentioned in 918 as "Wisenheida". Mediatization in 1806 brought the former county of Schönborn into the Grand Duchy of Würzburg, along with w ...

, that was owned by the counts of Schönborn. In 1806, it was mediatised by Bavaria, and in 1810 it passed on to the

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(owned by Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany), with which it finally fell back to Bavaria in 1814.

Population

In the area of the municipality 1970 973, 1987 then 890 and in the year 2005 1016 inhabitants were counted.

Politics

Mayor is Herbert Fröhlich (CSU), in office since 2014. The local rate incomes amounted to in the year 1999 converted 350 k€, of it amounted to the trade tax incomes (net) converted 57 k€.

Economics and infrastructure

Economics as well as land and forestry

There was 1998 after the official statistics in the producing trade 42 and within the range trade and traffic none liable to social security persons employed at the work place. In other economic sectors 26 persons were liable to social security busy at the work place. Liable to social security person employed at the residence gave it altogether to 288. In the processing trade there were 3 enterprises, in the building main trade of 2 enterprises. Besides existed in the year 1999 39 agricultural enterprises with an agriculturally used surface of 1284 hectares, of it were 1223 hectares of area of arable land and 41 hectares of continuous green area.

Education

In the year 2006 the following mechanisms existed: *Kindergartens: 50 kindergarten places with 45 children

References

{{Authority control Schweinfurt (district)