Mömbris is a community – since 31 January 1964 a market community – in the Aschaffenburg district in the ''

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Lower Franconia Lower Franconia (, ) is one of seven districts of Bavaria, Germany. The districts of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia make up the region of Franconia. It consists of nine districts and 308 municipalities (including three cities). History After ...

(''Unterfranken'') in

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. With over 11,000 inhabitants, Mömbris is the district's fifth largest community.

Geography

Location

Mömbris lies in the Bavarian Lower Main (''Bayerischer Untermain'') in the

Kahlgrund The Kahlgrund () is an area in the northern Spessart in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, following the valley of the river Kahl. It roughly corresponds to the former district of Alzenau, which was merged into the district of Aschaffenburg in 197 ...

halfway between

Schöllkrippen Schöllkrippen is a market community in the Aschaffenburg (district), Aschaffenburg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany and seat of the ''Municipal association, Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' ...

and

Alzenau Alzenau (; until 31 December 2006 officially ''Alzenau i.UFr.'') is a town in the north of the Aschaffenburg (district), Aschaffenburg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany. Until 1 July 1972 ...

, which are linked by ''Staatsstraße'' (State Road) 2305, at the foot of the Vorspessart (range) with its highest elevation, the

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at 437 m above sea level. The river Kahl flows through Mömbris. Mömbris comprises all together 18 centres in an area of 35.92 km². The greater share (32.81 km²) is woods, meadows and cropland. The community lies between 165 and 337 m above

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Constituent communities

Mömbris's ''

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e'' are as follows:

Amalgamations

*As of 1818, Brücken, Strötzbach, Rappach, Heimbach, Gunzenbach, Rothengrund, Angelsberg and Molkenberg were part of Mömbris. *The first communities merged into the market community of Mömbris, with effect from 1 January 1972, were Daxberg, Hemsbach and Mensengesäß. *On 1 July 1972 the community of Niedersteinbach followed. *On 1 January 1974 Dörnsteinbach and Hohl were amalgamated. *The community of Reichenbach merged on 1 January 1976. *Schimborn, which had already been merged with Königshofen a.d.Kahl in 1971 to form the community of Schimborn, was amalgamated along with its outlying centre into Mömbris on 1 May 1978.

Bavaria-Hesse boundary

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pokes a tongue of its territory into the market community. In 2007, a territorial exchange involving roughly 10 hectares of land was undertaken between Hesse and Bavaria, whereby the latter shrank by 1.77 hectares. Until this time, the state boundary ran right through the FV Viktoria 1930 e. V. Brücken (

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club) clubhouse. Elsewhere, the boundary also cut through a short stretch of ''Staatsstraße'' 2305 – a road administered by Bavaria – in the outlying centre of Niedersteinbach, meaning that this Bavarian-owned road ran for a short distance through Hesse; this stretch of road came to be known as the ''Hessenkurve''.Article from the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' “Kuriose Flurbereinigung” 4 January 2007

History

The Mömbris tithe court belonged until 1748, along with those of

and Hörstein and the free court to the Wilmundsheim vor der Hart (Alzenau) ''Markgenossenschaft'' (a kind of collective arrangement in which several villages jointly owned land resources). Free ''Märker'' (''Markgenossenschaft'' dwellers) gathered every year in Alzenau to choose a ''Landrichter'' (judge) and foresters and to deal with important decisions. The tithe courts originally had

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. Chairmanship was held by a tithe count chosen to serve for one year. Each village supplied, commensurately with each one's number of freemen, ''Schöffen'' (roughly “lay jurists”) whose job it was to mete out justice. In 1500, the tithe courts lost their Imperial immediacy along with its attendant privileges. Ecclesiastical jurisdiction was thereafter exercised by the

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. Mömbris became under the

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in 1803 part of the newly formed

Principality of Aschaffenburg The Principality of Aschaffenburg () was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire created in 1803 and, following the dissolution of the Empire in 1806, of the Confederation of the Rhine, which existed from 1806 to 1810. Its capital was Aschaffenb ...

, ruled by

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, with which it passed in 1814 (by this time it had become a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt) to Bavaria.

Government

Mayors

*Georg Grünewald (1876–1910) *August Grünewald (1911–1938) *Gottfried van Treek (1939–1945) *Anton Volk (1945) *Leopold Wissel (1945–1951) *Anton Reising (CSU) (1951–1986) *Michael Schneemeier (SPD) (1986–1998) *Reinhold Glaser (CSU) (1998–2008) *Felix Wissel (SPD/independent) (2008–)

Community council

The council is made up of 25 council members, counting the full-time mayor. (as at municipal election held on 2 March 2008)

Town twinning

* Pré-Bocage with its

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Caumont-l'Éventé Caumont-l'Éventé () is a former commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Caumont-sur-Aure.Villers-Bocage,

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Coat of arms

The community's

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might be described thus: Gules a sword argent palewise the hilt and pommel Or, dexter a wheel of the second spoked of six, sinister a crown proper with four leaves. Mömbris was until 1500 a kingly estate, as witnessed by the crown on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side. The place was also the seat of a free court, symbolized by the sword. In 1487,

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managed to acquire a share of sovereignty over the area, and in 1738, this became total. The six-spoked wheel (

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) on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side recalls this. In 1963, Mömbris was granted market rights. The arms were designed and introduced in 1961.

Economy

The high population figure belies Mömbris's scattered, agricultural character, for since the sweeping municipal reform in the late 1970s, Mömbris has been made up of 18 constituent communities. These are mainly small centres with 200 to 1,000 inhabitants, the exceptions being Schimborn (1,800) and the namesake centre Mömbris (2,000), giving the market community of Mömbris a population of some 12,000 in 2004. Over the last few years, Mömbris has had to deal with a fall in population and economic problems (loss of buying power in the neighbouring Kahlgrund towns of

and

). Mömbris has repeatedly been Bavaria's most indebted municipality in proportion to its population. According to official statistics, there were 1,038 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in

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forestry Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and Natural environment, environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and ...

and producing businesses in 1998. In trade and

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this was 410. In other areas, 398 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls were employed, and 4,435 such workers worked from home. There were 3 processing businesses. Twenty-nine businesses were in construction, and furthermore, in 1999, there were 117 agricultural operations with a working area of 1 240 ha, of which 592 ha was cropland and 613 ha was meadowland.

Sports

Mömbris is home to the ''Bundesliga'' wrestling team RWG Mömbris-Königshofen.

Education

In 1999, the following institutions were to be found in Mömbris: *

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s: 495 kindergarten places with 471 children *

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s: 5 with 46 teachers and 985 pupils

Notable people

Honorary citizens

* since 2004

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Helmut Bauer (of the Archdiocese of Würzburg)

Sons and daughters of the town

* Father (born 29 July 1898 in Mömbris; died 24 December 1952 in

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), Professor of Church Law, in 1939 Rector of the Germanicum in

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and in 1945 Papal diplomat in

Kronberg im Taunus Kronberg im Taunus (, ) is a town in the Hochtaunuskreis district, Hesse, Germany and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Authority, Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Before 1866, it was in the Duchy of Nassau; in that year the whole Duchy w ...

. In his memory, the community named the primary school built in 1959 ''Ivo-Zeiger-Schule'' and the ecclesiastical community centre ''Ivo-Zeiger-Haus''. *

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(born 12 February 1966 in Mömbris), wrestler

Others linked to the community

* (born 2 October 1902 in Burgbrohl; died 9 March 1970 in Mömbris), district councillor for the former Alzenau district * (born 1 November 1978 in Alzenau-Wasserlos) is a German ''Bundesliga'' wrestler and Chief Mayor of Mömbris.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mombris Aschaffenburg (district)