Roden is a community in the Main-Spessart district in the ''

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'' of

Lower Franconia Lower Franconia (german: Unterfranken) is one of seven districts of Bavaria, Germany. The districts of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia make up the region of Franconia. History After the founding of the Kingdom of Bavaria the state was totally ...

(''Unterfranken'') in

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

Geography

Location

Roden lies between

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

(52 km) and

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. Würzburg ...

(32 km) on the edge 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. Ety ...

(range). To

Karlstadt am Main Karlstadt is a town in the Main-Spessart in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany. It is the administrative centre of Main-Spessart (''Kreisstadt''), and has a population of around 15,000. Geography ...

(the district seat) it is 15 km and to

Lohr am Main Lohr am Main (officially: ''Lohr a. Main'') is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany and the seat (but not a member) of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (muni ...

the same. From the

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A 3 (Frankfurt - Würzburg), Roden can be reached through the Marktheidenfeld interchange (no. 65), and thence to

Marktheidenfeld Marktheidenfeld () is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany and the seat (but not a member) of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (municipal association) of Markth ...

and across the

Main Main may refer to: Geography * Main River (disambiguation) **Most commonly the Main (river) in Germany * Main, Iran, a village in Fars Province *"Spanish Main", the Caribbean coasts of mainland Spanish territories in the 16th and 17th centuries ...

Bridge there. A left turn at the far end of the bridge brings drivers to Roden after 7 km. The community is rich in woodland (roughly 1 000 ha) at the seam between the Spessart's mostly bunter-based geology and that found on the ''Fränkische Platte'' (a flat, mostly agricultural region), which is mostly

Muschelkalk The Muschelkalk (German for "shell-bearing limestone"; french: calcaire coquillier) is a sequence of sedimentary rock, sedimentary rock strata (a lithostratigraphy, lithostratigraphic unit) in the geology of central and western Europe. It has a Mid ...

-based.

Constituent communities

The community is made up of the two centres of Roden and Ansbach.

History

In 1348, Roden had its first documentary mention, and for centuries was part 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 diocese ...

. It passed with the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to the Counts of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenburg. In 1806, Roden became part of the mediatized '' Amt'' of Steinfeld, belonging to Baden, which in turn was ceded to Austria in 1816. In the ''Generalrezess'' of Frankfurt in 1819, Roden passed to Bavaria.

Coat of arms

The community's

arms Arms or ARMS may refer to: *Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to: People * Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader Coat of arms or weapons *Armaments or weapons **Fi ...

might be described thus: Per pale, dexter vert an oaktree eradicated argent, sinister Or an uncial N, in chief a cross pattée sable. The oaktree on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side refers to the community's wealth of woodland, and on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side is the symbol used by the Neustadt am Main Monastery, which was the village's origin.

Sightseeing

*St. Cyriacus's Parish Church from 1710 with a tower from Julius Echter's time (tabernacle from 16th century) *Important Crucifixion Group made of

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...

from the former Neustadt am Main Monastery (1586) at the community's graveyard

Clubs

*Cyriakusverein Roden, chairman, Roland Ehehalt *Roden volunteer fire brigade, chief and commander, Roland Henlein *Ansbach volunteer fire brigade, chief, Herold Andreas, commander, Peter Pfeufer *FC Roden football club, chairman Erwin Eyrich *Roden Gardening and Beautification Club, chairwoman Karin Steinbauer *Ansbach Gardening and Beautification Club, chairwoman Ulrike Steinbauer *Kameradenbund Ansbach, chairman Gerhard Behr *Roden Music Club, chairman Horst Schmitt *Schützenkameradschaft 1957 Roden (marksmanship, shooting), chairman Georg Benkert *SJG Ansbach (sport and youth), chairwoman Uschi Sommer *VdK Ortsverband Roden, chairman Helmut Schreck

Economy

Small businesses and only a few countrymen offer hardly any jobs in the community. The overwhelming majority of the inhabitants commute to work in Lohr, Marktheidenfeld or Würzburg.

References

External links

Community’s official webpage
{{Authority control Main-Spessart