Lohr am Main (officially: ''Lohr a. Main'') is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the ''

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'' of

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(''Unterfranken'') in

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and the seat (but not a member) of the ''

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'' (municipal association) of Lohr am Main. It has a population of around 15,000.

Etymology

The town takes its name from the eponymous river that flows into the Main in the municipality. Wolf-Armin Frhr. v. Reitzenstein: Lexikon fränkischer Ortsnamen. Herkunft und Bedeutung. C.H.Beck, München 2009, , p. 133. The addition "am Main" distinguishes it from other towns also named Lohr. Past ways of spelling the name include:

Geography

Location

The municipal territory extends on both banks of the Main about halfway between

Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the '' Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River. Würzbur ...

and

Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg (; South Franconian: ''Aschebersch'') is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not part of the district of Aschaffenburg, but is its administrative seat. Aschaffenburg belonged to the Archbishopric ...

in Lower Franconia. The town of Lohr lies on the eastern slope of 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. Et ...

at a bend in the river Main, which swings towards the south here, forming the beginning of the ''Mainviereck'' ("Main Square" – the southern part of the Spessart). In Lohr, the river Lohr empties into the Main. Perhaps for its geographical location or the fact that two major valleys lead into the interior of the range, the town is known as the "Gateway to the Spessart" (''Tor zum Spessart''). The Main river valley is steep with an elevation change from 160 m above

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at Gemünden dropping to 100 m above sea level at Hanau. The river Main in its natural state is a fast-moving stream unsuitable for shipping. In the 19th century the river was tamed and a system of dams and locks is now part of the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal connecting the

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with the

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Geology

The bedrock, with a depth of about 400 m, is made up mainly of

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minerals. In the Spessart is found a great deal of bunter. This geological plain with a slight slope to the southeast is the product of a large continental sea that drained owing to a tectonic shift. In the east the range is abutted by the ''Fränkische Platte'' (a flat, mostly agricultural region), whose geology is mainly Muschelkalk-based. The sandstone bedrock with strata of loess and

clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay part ...

in conjunction with an extensive forest provide for excellent water quality of the springs and ground water of the region. The people of Lohr thus enjoy high-quality drinking water. Currently large amounts of this water are pumped to areas as far away as Würzburg.

Subdivisions

Lohr am Main's '' Stadtteile'' are , Lindig, , , , , , and . The town has the following ''Gemarkungen'' (traditional rural cadastral areas): Halsbach, Lohr a. Main, Pflochsbach, Rodenbach, Ruppertshütten, Sackenbach, Sendelbach, Steinbach, Wombach. Moreover, the town of Lohr am Main also owns plots of land within other municipalities, namely

Partenstein Partenstein is a community in the Main-Spessart district in the '' Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany and the seat of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (Administrative Community) of Partenstein. Partenst ...

, Gemünden am Main and Rechtenbach.

Neighbouring communities

Clockwise from the north, these are Partenstein,

Frammersbach Frammersbach is a market community in the Main-Spessart district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany. In the early modern period, people from Frammersbach achieved international renown as drivers ...

Flörsbachtal Flörsbachtal is a municipality in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hesse, Germany. It has a population close to 2,400. Flösbachtal contains both the oldest parish and the youngest settlement established in the Spessart hills. Located within the mu ...

, Fellen,

Burgsinn Burgsinn is a market community in the Main-Spessart district in the '' Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany and the seat of the '' Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (municipal association) of Burgsinn. It has a ...

, Rieneck, Neuendorf, Gemünden am Main, Karlstadt, Steinfeld, Neustadt am Main and Rechtenbach.

History

The town of Lohr am Main was settled no later than the 8th century, and by the time of its first documentary mention in 1295 it was already the main centre of the County of Rieneck. In 1333 Lohr was granted town rights, which can be explained by the disagreement about the inheritance of the Counts of Rieneck-Rothenfels, which had died out. Indeed, Lohr had been a "town" for quite some time already. The town lords were the Counts of Rieneck, who had been enfeoffed by the

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(evidence of this is only available beginning in 1366). In 1559, after the last Count of Rieneck, Philipp III’s death, the fief passed to the Archbishopric of Mainz. From 1603 to 1618, during the "Recatholization" many townsfolk fell victim to persecution as witches. The former '' Oberamt'' of the

Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg The Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg (german: Fürstbistum Würzburg; Hochstift Würzburg) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire located in Lower Franconia, west of the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg. Würzburg had been a dioce ...

was

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in favour of Prince Primate von Dalberg's Principality of Aschaffenburg and passed along with this state in 1814 (by this time it had become a part of the

Grand Duchy of Frankfurt The Grand Duchy of Frankfurt was a German satellite state of Napoleonic creation. It came into existence in 1810 through the combination of the former territories of the Archbishopric of Mainz along with the Free City of Frankfurt itself. His ...

) to the

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. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current town-level municipality came into being with the ''Gemeindeedikt'' ("Municipal Edict") of 1818. In 1875, the ''Alte Mainbrücke'' (old Main bridge) was built. In 1936 came the new Lindig neighbourhood. In 1939, Sendelbach was amalgamated with the town. Between 1940 and 1945, under

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rule more than 600 children, women and men were deported to Sonnenstein and Grafeneck, as well as to the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps from what was then the Health and Care Institute (now the Regional Hospital for Psychiatry) as part of the

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programme, " Action T4". Since 1993, a bronze relief in the street by artist Rainer Stoltz serves as a memorial to these victims of the Nazi régime. On 2 April 1945, Lohr citizen Karl Brand was murdered, because he wanted to surrender the town to American troops without a fight. Since 1979, a memorial stone has recalled this. From 1972 to 1978, the surrounding communities of Halsbach, Rodenbach, Ruppertshütten, Sackenbach, Steinbach, Wombach and Pflochsbach were amalgamated with the town. On 1 July 1972, the greater part of the District of Lohr (''Landkreis Lohr'') became part of the new District of Mittelmain (''Landkreis Mittelmain''), which in 1973 was given its current name, Main-Spessart. At first, Lohr am Main was chosen as the district seat (''Kreisstadt''), but in October 1972 it was decided that Karlstadt would be the new district seat, and the ''Landratsamt'' (district office) was moved from Lohr to Karlstadt.

Economy

Lohr am Main is economically the most important centre in the Main-Spessart district. Out of some 12,000 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in town, only some 5,500 actually live in Lohr. The greater number of roughly 6,200 workers commute each day to Lohr. Comparing Lohr am Main with the district seat of Karlstadt, Lohr's importance stands out even more sharply. Although both towns have roughly the same population, Lohr am Main has about three times as many jobs. The greater number of jobs and the number of large businesses in town are also reflected in per-capita tax revenue: in 2005, this was about €1,000.

Economic structure

The most important industries are

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manufacturing as well as wood and glass processing. In addition, there are a large number of craftsmen's businesses. Important employers in Lohr are: *

Bosch Rexroth Bosch Rexroth AG is an engineering firm based in Lohr am Main in Germany. It is the result of a merger on 1 May 2001 between Mannesmann Rexroth AG and the Automation Technology Business Unit of Robert Bosch GmbH, and is a wholly owned subsidiar ...

AG (hydraulics, engine building and automation technology) with 6,620 employees, including the former Indramat * ''Bezirkskrankenhaus Lohr'' (hospital for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine) with 607 employees * Gerresheimer Lohr GmbH (specialty glass and plastics) with 350 employees * ATY Automotive & Industrial Components GmbH with 250 employees * Nikolaus Sorg GmbH & Co KG (glass processing) with 165 employees * Walter Hunger KG (hydraulic components) with 160 employees * OWI Oskar Winkler GmbH & Co.KG (wooden and plastic mouldings) with 120 employees The local unemployment rate is less than 3%.

Logging

The town of Lohr am Main is, with its more than 6,300 ha of woodland (of which around 4,000 ha are municipally owned) Bavaria's second largest municipal forest owner. The town's woodlands are a mixed broadleaf forest managed under the precepts of the ''Arbeitsgemeinschaft Naturgemäße Waldwirtschaft'' (ANW, "Natural Forest Management Working Group"). Since 2000, the town's forest has been certified according to the Forest Stewardship Council's (FSC) criteria.

Arts and culture

Museums

The ' houses the ''Spessartmuseum''. It deals mainly with economics and handicrafts, but also with the Spessart's regional history. In the outlying centre of Sendelbach is a school museum with the foci '"Imperial Germany" (1871-1918) and "Third Reich" (1933-1945). Germany's smallest museum is to be found on Haaggasse in a former transformer hut under monument protection, it shows a variety of insulators.

Buildings

Some of the sights of Lohr are the (1599-1602), the ''Lohrer Schloss'' (an Electoral Mainz palatial castle, 15th to 17th century, that grew from a 14th-century castle of the Rieneck counts), the Roman Catholic parish church (12th to 15th century), the ' (old town watchtower, 1330-1385), remnants of the town's fortifications, the historic ''Fischerviertel'' ("fishermen’s quarter") and the old town with many timber-frame buildings. Outside of the town, there is the important pilgrimage site of Monastery and the Baroque ' and church in Steinbach. The ' ("Lohr old Main bridge"), an

arch bridge An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side. A viaduct (a ...

, has spanned the river Main since 1875. One hundred years later, the 417 m-long ' ("Lohr new Main bridge"), a prestressed-concrete structure was constructed.

Events

The Lohr Good Friday Procession each year draws thousands of visitors. Thirteen life-sized figures mark the

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. The figures are borne and overseen by members of the various craftsmen's guilds. The Procession is actually a remnant of a once much greater, Baroque figure procession. It likely arose in the years after the

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. The earliest confirmed mention in the church records kept by Saint Michael's parish comes from 1656. Going back to a vow made during the Plague in 1666 is the Lohr custom of holding a procession each year on Saint Roch's Day (16 August) to the Valentinusberg (hill) above the town and holding festive church services there in honour of the Holy Trinity. ''Spessartsommer'' combines an array of summertime events such as ''Lohrer Tanzfest'' (dance festival), ''Altstadtfest'' (old town festival), ''City-Festival'' and ''Klingendes Lohr'' (ringing Lohr). Of particular importance is the ''Spessartfestwoche'' ("Spessart festival week"), which lasts ten days around 1 August. A Bavarian beer tent with seating for 4,500 and live music and a beergarden right on the Main with seating for a further 2,000 form the event’s centrepiece. There are also rides and a fireworks finale. In 2008, the 63rd ''Spessartfestwoche'' was held. The ''Festwochen-Express'' bus service’s 12 special lines to and from the festival saw a ridership of 23,416. There are also cabaret and amateur theatre events in Lohr and the outlying centres.

Governance

Mayor

The mayor (''Erster Bürgermeister'') of Lohr is Mario Paul. He was elected in March 2014. He is the successor of Ernst-Heinrich Prüße (CSU).

Coat of arms

The town's

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might be described thus: Barry of ten gules and Or a bend wavy azure. The town's arms are essentially those borne by the Counts of Rieneck, who were the local lords from the 13th century until 1559. The wavy bend most likely refers to the Lohrbach, a local stream. The town’s oldest known seal, from 1408, already shows this design. Over time, the number of bars in the

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has varied, as has the

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of the bend (a version published in the 1920s, for instance, showed “Barry of nine gules and Or a bend wavy vert” – with nine bars and a green bend), for there was no proper blazon for the arms until 1957, when they were officially conferred on the town.Description/explanation of Lohr’s coat of arms at ''Heraldry of the World''
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Town twinning

Lohr am Main is

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with: * Ouistreham, Calvados, France * Burgeis,

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, Italy * Milicz, Lower Silesia, Poland

Sponsorship

Přísečnice Přísečnice (german: Preßnitz) was a mining town in what is today the municipality of Kryštofovy Hamry in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It was located in the Ore Mountains. Name The town may have got its name from th ...

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In 1956 the town undertook the sponsorship arrangement for Sudeten Germans driven out of their homeland in the town and district known in

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as Preßnitz. The town itself no longer exists. In 1974, its former site became the bed of a new reservoir.

Infrastructure

Transport

Rail

The Main-Spessart Railway (''Main-Spessart-Bahn'') from

and Gemünden leaves the Main valley on the way to

–

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian dialects, Hessian: , "Franks, Frank ford (crossing), ford on the Main (river), Main"), is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as o ...

and crosses through the Spessart. The from Lohr station through the town was a single-track, unelectrified, standard-gauge line to Wertheim. Passenger transport between Lohr-Town station and Wertheim was discontinued on 30 May 1976. Passenger service between Lohr-Bahnhof and Lohr-Town ended on 22 May 1977, although this part of the line is still in use for occasional goods transports. The former Lohr-Town station was converted to a pub. A direct early

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service to

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

was replaced with a Regionalbahn to Würzburg when the Nuremberg–Munich high-speed railway came into service in 2006. The nearest InterCityExpress stops are Aschaffenburg and Würzburg. On the eastern edge of town runs a short stretch of the ''Mühlbergtunnel'' on the Hanover-Würzburg high-speed rail line running north-south. Also within town limits runs a part of the Nantenbach Curve with the ''Schönraintunnel''.

Road

Lohr lies on ''

Bundesstraße 26 The Bundesstraße 26 or Federal Highway 26, (abbreviation: B 26) runs between the city of Riedstadt at the B44, to the city of Hallstadt, at the Bundesautobahn 70, A70 in Germany. The highway run East to West. It crosses the River Main and ...

'', ', ''Staatsstraße'' (State Road) 2435 and ''Staatsstraße'' 2315. The nearest

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en are the A 3 (Munich - Würzburg – Frankfurt) through the Weibersbrunn, Hösbach and Marktheidenfeld interchanges, and the A 7 (Würzburg -

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) through the

Hammelburg Hammelburg is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It sits in the district of Bad Kissingen, in Lower Franconia. It lies on the river Franconian Saale, 25 km west of Schweinfurt. Hammelburg is the oldest winegrowing town (''Weinstadt'') in Franco ...

interchange.

Waterway

The river Main is a "Federal Waterway" (''Bundeswasserstraße'') of the first order, administered by the '. Lohr Altstadt2

Healthcare

Lohr has at its disposal a ''Kreiskrankenhaus'' (District Hospital) with the disciplines of surgery, internal medicine, anaesthesiology,

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and otolaryngology, and also the ''Bezirkskrankenhaus'' (Regional Hospital) for

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, psychotherapy,

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and forensic medicine for the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'').

Education

Primary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...

s: Lohr am Main, Rodenbach, Sackenbach, Sendelbach, Wombach *

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schools: St. Kilian-Schule Sonderpädagogisches Förderzentrum Marktheidenfeld – Lohr; St. Nikolaus-Schule with emphasis on mental development *

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: Gustav-Woehrnitz-Volksschule Lohr am Main * Realschule: Georg-Ludwig-Rexroth-Realschule * Gymnasium: Franz-Ludwig-von-Erthal-Gymnasium *

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: Staatliche Berufsschule Main-Spessart with professional school and training centre * Professional school - Berufsfachschule für Krankenpflege (

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) * Forest school: Bayerische Forstschule * Forest management school: Bayerische Technikerschule für Waldwirtschaft * IGM education centre *

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: municipal singing and music school * Folk high school: Volkshochschule der Stadt Lohr am Main

Notable people

* Hans Blum (between 1520 and 1527-around or after 1552), architectural theorist *

Philipp Valentin Voit von Rieneck Philipp Valentin Albrecht Voit von Rieneck (1612–1672) was the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1653 to 1672. Biography Philipp Valentin Albrecht Voit von Rieneck was born in Rodenbach, today a part of Lohr, on 10 January 1612. He was appointe ...

(1612-1672), Prince Bishop of the ''

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'' * (1706–1770),

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(born in Steinbach) *

Franz Ludwig von Erthal Franz Ludwig Freiherr von Erthal (16 September 1730 in Lohr am Main - 14 February 1795 in Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrati ...

(1730–1795), Bishop of

Bamberg Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian: ''Bambärch'') is a town in Upper Franconia, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main. The town dates back to the 9th century, when its name was derived from the nearby ' castl ...

and

* (4 October 1735 – 23 May 1799 in Strasbourg), constitutional (not authorized by the Church) Bishop of Strasbourg during the

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* (1813–1899), German architect and building engineer. * Joseph Koeth (1870–1936), politician and Reich minister in the

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* Ignatius Taschner (1871-1913), artist between

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and Neoclassicism *

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(1899-1978),

Engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...

, and Anthroposophist * (1937-2016), pharmacist and pharmaceutical historian * (1944–2013), writer and translator *

Hermann Joha Hermann Joha (born 17 February 1960) is a German television producer. Career Joha began his career as a stunt performer when he joined a British Hell Drivers team at the age of 17 years. Later he started working for German television. Eventua ...

(1960– ),

stuntman A stunt performer, often called a stuntman or stuntwoman and occasionally stuntperson or stunt-person, is a trained professional who performs daring acts, often as a career. Stunt performers usually appear in films or on television, as opposed ...

, owner and managing director of the Actionfilm production company Alarm für Cobra 11 *

Nadine Angerer Nadine Marejke Angerer (born 10 November 1978) is a German football coach and player who is the goalkeeping player-coach for Portland Thorns of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Angerer has played for Frauen-Bundesliga clubs Bayern Mu ...

(1978– ), football world champion 2007, European Champion 2009 and 2013 * Nicolai Müller (1987-), football player

Other

* Lohr is one of the places that claim to be

Snow White "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is a 19th-century German fairy tale that is today known widely across the Western world. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'' and numbered as ...

’s birthplace.

References

External links

*
Town’s official webpage
*
Handball in Lohr
{{Authority control 11th-century establishments in the Holy Roman Empire Main-Spessart Populated places on the Main basin Populated riverside places in Germany