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

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'' of

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(''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 halfway between

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

and

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

, 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

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major historic cities are Da ...

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 ( football 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

Archbishopric of Mainz The Electorate of Mainz (german: Kurfürstentum Mainz or ', la, Electoratus Moguntinus), previously known in English as Mentz and by its French name Mayence, was one of the most prestigious and influential states of the Holy Roman Empire. In the ...

. Mömbris became under the

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in 1803 part of the 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 ...

, ruled by Prince primate

Karl Theodor von Dalberg Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (8 February 1744 – 10 February 1817) was Prince- Archbishop of Regensburg, Arch-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, Bishop of Constance and Worms, prince-primate of the Confederation of the Rhine and Gra ...

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

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 ...

) 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

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peop ...

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

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: *

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 cent ...

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 Auxiliary Bishop (of the Archdiocese of Würzburg)

Sons and daughters of the town

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

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 ...

), 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 urban area. Before 1866, it was in the Duchy of Nassau; in that year the whole Duchy was absorbed into Prussia. Kronberg lies at th ...

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

Peter Behl Peter Behl (born 12 February 1966) is a German former wrestler. He competed in the men's Greco-Roman 62 kg at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known ...

(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)