Hausen is a community in the Miltenberg district in the ''

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(''Unterfranken'') in

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and a member of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (Administrative Community) of Kleinwallstadt.

Geography

Location

Hausen lies in the Bavarian Lower Main (''Bayerischer Untermain'') Region. The community has only the ''Gemarkung'' (traditional rural cadastral area) of Hausen.

History

The settlements of Oberhausen and Unterhausen, once part of the Archbishopric of Mainz, became in accordance with the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss part of Prince Primate von Dalberg’s newly formed

Principality of Aschaffenburg The Principality of Aschaffenburg (german: Fürstentum 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 ...

, with which it passed in 1814 (by this time it had become a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt) to Bavaria. On 25 April 1856 the two formerly self-administering communities were merged to form the single community of Hausen.

Population development

Within town limits, 1,385 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 1,682 in 1987 and in 2000 1,965.

Politics

Town council

The council is made up of 13 council members, counting the mayor, with seats apportioned thus: * CSU/WG 8 seats *Hausener Bürgerblock 5 seats Municipal taxes in 1999 amounted to €674,000 (converted), of which net business taxes amounted to €36,000.

Coat of arms

The community’s arms might be described thus: Sable a sword per bend sinister the point to chief and flammant argent, the whole surmounted by a cross chequy of two Or and gules, in chief dexter a wheel spoked of six of the second, in base sinister an oakleaf per bend sinister acorned of one of the second. The chequered cross is drawn from the arms once borne by the Counts of Ingelheim, who succeeded the Echter von Mespelbrunn family as feudal lords when the latter died out in 1665. The

Wheel of Mainz The 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 (Kurmainz), in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It consists of a silver wheel with six spokes on a red bac ...

refers to the Archbishopric of Mainz, which was also once an overlord. The flaming sword is one of

Saint Michael Michael (; he, מִיכָאֵל, lit=Who is like El od, translit=Mīḵāʾēl; el, Μιχαήλ, translit=Mikhaḗl; la, Michahel; ar, ميخائيل ، مِيكَالَ ، ميكائيل, translit=Mīkāʾīl, Mīkāl, Mīkhāʾīl), also ...

’s attributes, and it is to him that the church in Hausen is consecrated. The oakleaf and the acorn stand for Hausen’s geographical location in the

Spessart Spessart is a '' Mittelgebirge'', a range of low wooded mountains, in the States of Bavaria and Hesse in Germany. It is bordered by the Vogelsberg, Rhön and Odenwald. The highest elevation is the Geiersberg at 586 metres above sea level. Ety ...

(range). The arms have been borne since 1988.Description and explanation of Hausen’s arms
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Economy and infrastructure

According to official statistics, there were 42 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in producing businesses in 1998. In trade and

transport Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land ( rail and road), water, cable, pipelin ...

this was 0. In other areas, 746 such workers worked from home. There were 4 processing businesses. Two businesses were in construction, and furthermore, in 1999, there were 12 agricultural operations with a working area of 144 ha, of which 83 ha was cropland and 57 ha was meadowland.

Education

In 1999 the following institutions existed in Hausen: *

Kindergarten Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th ce ...

s: 100 places with 71 children

References

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