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Hösbach is a market community and municipality in the Aschaffenburg district in the ''
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'' of
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(''Unterfranken'') in
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. As of 2023, It has a population of 13,323.


Geography


Location

The municipality lies in the part of the ''
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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 (Spessart), Geiersberg at 586 metre ...
known as ''Vorspessart'', 5 km from
Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg (; Hessian: ''Aschebersch'', ) is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg, despite being its administrative seat, is not part of the district of Aschaffenburg. Aschaffenburg belonged to the Archbishopric ...
, roughly 70 km from
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and roughly 50 km from
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. The
Hösbach Hösbach is a market community and municipality in the Aschaffenburg (district), Aschaffenburg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany. As of 2023, It has a population of 13,323. Geography ...
, from which the community's name is derived, flows into the
Aschaff The Aschaff (in its uppermost course: ''Kleinaschaff'') is a river in the northern Spessart in Bavaria, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Main and is long. It begins at the Aschaffquelle near Waldaschaff. Loosely translated the name Asch ...
in the municipal territory. The central village of Hösbach is located in the valley of the Aschaff, next to the
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. However, the outlying centres are located in side valleys and, in the case of Feldkahl and Rottenberg, actually in another watershed, that of the Kahl.


Constituent communities

Hösbach has ten ''
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e'' located on five ''
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en'' (traditional cadastral areas). These are as follows (population numbers for 2011): * (1,086) * Hösbach (6,556) ** (1,096) * (1,661) * (982) ** Münchhof * (1,969) ** Aschaffsteg ** Forsthaus ** Schmerlenbach


Neighbouring communities

Hösbach borders on (from the north, clockwise):
Mömbris Mömbris is a community – since 31 January 1964 a Market town, market community – in the Aschaffenburg (district), Aschaffenburg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany. With over 11,000 ...
,
Blankenbach Blankenbach is a community in the Aschaffenburg (district), Aschaffenburg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany, and a member of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (Administrative Community) o ...
,
Sailauf Sailauf is a municipality in the Aschaffenburg (district), Aschaffenburg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany. It has a population of around 3,600. Geography Location The community lies ...
,
Bessenbach Bessenbach is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the '' Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany. Geography Location Bessenbach lies southeast of the town of Aschaffenburg among the Spessart ran ...
, Haibach,
Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg (; Hessian: ''Aschebersch'', ) is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg, despite being its administrative seat, is not part of the district of Aschaffenburg. Aschaffenburg belonged to the Archbishopric ...
, Goldbach and Johannesberg.


History

In 1189, Hösbach had its first documentary mention as ''Hostebach'': a ''Hermann de Hostebach'' and his son Conrad were named in a document from Archbishop Konrad of Mainz as witnesses. In 1218 the ''Schmerlenbach'' convent (in today's constituent community of Winzenhohl) was endowed by the family von Kugelberg and it was granted the right of patronage over the Hösbach church. In the 13th century, the noble family of Hostebach died out, but the name Hösbach remained. Beginning in the 14th century, ''Forsthuben'' – a kind of woodland estate – were set up in Hösbach, which over the course of time further grew into large farms. In 1781 there were only 120 houses with 591 inhabitants. These figures rose only very slowly over the following decades. Only in 1895 did the population figure surpass 2,000. In the years thereafter, Hösbach's growth came about more quickly through
industrialization Industrialisation (British English, UK) American and British English spelling differences, or industrialization (American English, US) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an i ...
, especially in nearby
Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg (; Hessian: ''Aschebersch'', ) is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg, despite being its administrative seat, is not part of the district of Aschaffenburg. Aschaffenburg belonged to the Archbishopric ...
, so that in 1905 there were already 2,518 people registered in the community, and by 1933 this had reached 3,388. War refugees during and after the
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swelled the population to 4,517 by 1946. Steady growth continued for many years. Through municipal reforms in 1972 and 1978 the community of Hösbach expanded its land area by 1 981 ha and its population by 4,500. At this time, the formerly self-administering small communities of Wenighösbach (1 January 1972), Feldkahl (1 July 1972), Rottenberg (1 May 1978) and Winzenhohl (1 May 1978) were amalgamated. In the 1980s, Hösbach gained fame as the founding place of the rock band ''
Böhse Onkelz Böhse Onkelz (; sensational spelling of (German for "evil uncles")) is a German rock band formed in Frankfurt in 1980. The band reunited in 2014. Despite mass-media criticism concerning their past as skinheads, several of their later records ...
''. On the occasion of its 800-year jubilee, Hösbach was awarded the status of ''Markt'' (market community) on 29 September 1989. Image:HoesbachRathausplatz.jpg, Town hall square Image:HoesbachBrunnenaufdemMarktplatz.JPG, Fountain on the marketplace


Governance


Community council

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


Coat of arms

The community's
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might be described thus: Party per pale gules a churchtower argent, argent a spur vert palewise above which an oak leaf of the third on whose stem bendwise an acorn Or. Hösbach's landmark, with its characteristic tower, is Saint Michael's parish church. The tower was included as a
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in the arms on the community's wishes, although in heraldically simplified form. The
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s argent and gules (silver and red) refer to the community's former allegiance to the
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. The Archiepiscopal forest officials, who oversaw things in the Spessart region on horseback, had their seat in Hösbach. The existence of this seat in Hösbach can be confirmed from the 14th century onwards. The charges on the escutcheon's sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side are attributes of this service, with the oak leaf and acorn representing the forest, and the spur the mounted officials themselves. The arms have been borne since 1970.


Arts and culture


Monuments

See also list of protected monuments in Hösbach


Churches and chapels

* ''Feldkahler Kapelle'' (Feldkahl) * ''Marienkapelle'' (Rottenberg) * ''St. Agatha'' (Schmerlenbach) * ''St. Antonius von Padua'' (Rottenberg) * ''St. Barbara'' (Wenighösbach) * ''St. Johannes'' (Hösbach) * ''St. Johannes Nepomuk'' (Feldkahl) * ''St. Michael'' (Hösbach) * ''Zur Mutterschaft Mariens'' (Hösbach-Bahnhof)


Infrastructure


Transport

Besides its location right next to the major highway A3 (which between Goldbach and Hösbach has been hidden under a
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to reduce noise pollution), Hösbach is also located on the Bundesstrasse 26. Moreover, the municipal territory is also crossed by the Main–Spessart railway with a station at Hösbach-Bahnhof.


Education

Hösbach is seat of the school centre of the Aschaffenburg district, which comprises the following, nearby schools: * Astrid-Lindgren-Grundschule
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*
Mittelschule ''Mittelschule'' is a German term literally translating to "Middle School" (i.e. a level "intermediate" between elementary and higher education). It is used in various senses in the education systems of the various parts of German-speaking Europe, ...
(M-Klasse) * Staatliche
Realschule Real school (, ) is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola''), F ...
Hösbach * Hanns-Seidel- Gymnasium *
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schule (school for those with learning problems) * Dr. Albert-Liebmann-Schule (school for speech therapy) The primary schools in Rottenberg and Winzenhohl are also connected to this one. Near the school centre are found many sport facilities and halls as well as an indoor swimming pool, which is also used for sport instruction. In the Hanns-Seidel-Gymnasium and Realschule (An der Maas) building complex, the district library is to be found. There is also an outdoor swimming pool in the constituent community of Rottenberg.


Notable people

* Willigis Jäger (1925-2020), Benedictine friar, mystic and Zenmaster *
Peter Schorowsky Peter "Pe" Schorowsky (born 15 June 1964) is a German musician and a founding member of the rock band Böhse Onkelz. He played drums until the band's split in 2005. Biography Schorowsky is the second of four brothers born to a Catholic family ...
(b. 15 June 1964 in Hösbach), drummer for the band
Böhse Onkelz Böhse Onkelz (; sensational spelling of (German for "evil uncles")) is a German rock band formed in Frankfurt in 1980. The band reunited in 2014. Despite mass-media criticism concerning their past as skinheads, several of their later records ...
*
Stephan Weidner Stephan Weidner (born 29 May 1963), also known as Der W, is a German musician, songwriter and producer. From 1980 to 2005, he was the bassist, songwriter and leader of the German rock band Böhse Onkelz. He was also a singer with Nordend Antis ...
(b. 29 May 1963 in
Alsfeld Alsfeld () is a town in the center of Hesse, in Germany. Located about north of Frankfurt, Alsfeld is part of the densely populated Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, with nearby Lauterbach, Hesse, Lauterbach (about ...
), singer, songwriter and bassist for the band Böhse Onkelz * Kevin Russell (b. 12 January 1964 in
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), singer for the band Böhse Onkelz


References


External links


Community’s official webpage
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