Unterfranken
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| State: | Bavaria |
| Capital: | Würzburg |
| Area: | 8,531.59 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 1,344,300 (2002) |
| pop. density: | 157,57 inh./km² |
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Unterfranken (Lower Franconia) is one of the three administrative regions of Franconia in Bavaria (seven regions), Germany (32 regions).
The district was formed in 1817 unter the name of Untermainkreis (Lower Main District) and renamed in 1837 as Unterfranken and Aschaffenburg (Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg). In 1933 the regional Nazi Gauleiter Otto Hellmuth insisted on renaming the district Mainfranken, but after 1945 the name Unterfranken was resrurrected.
Unterfranken is the north-west part of Franconia and consists of three district-free cities ("Kreisfreie Städte") and nine country districts ("Landkreise").
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Area and population
| City or District | Population (2002) | Area (km²) | Communities | |||
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| City of Aschaffenburg | 68,682 | 5.1% | 63 | 0.7% | 1 | 0.3% |
| City of Schweinfurt | 54,670 | 4.1% | 36 | 0.4% | 1 | 0.3% |
| City of Würzburg | 131,582 | 9.8% | 88 | 1.0% | 1 | 0.3% |
| Aschaffenburg | 174,863 | 13.0% | 699 | 8.2% | 32 | 10.4% |
| Bad Kissingen | 109,382 | 8.1% | 1,137 | 13.3% | 26 | 8.4% |
| Haßberge | 88,301 | 6.6% | 956 | 11.2% | 26 | 8.4% |
| Kitzingen | 89,335 | 6.6% | 684 | 8.0% | 31 | 10.1% |
| Main-Spessart | 132,393 | 9.8% | 1,322 | 15.5% | 40 | 13.0% |
| Miltenberg | 131,568 | 9.8% | 716 | 8.4% | 32 | 10.4% |
| Rhön-Grabfeld | 86,811 | 6.5% | 1,022 | 12.0% | 37 | 12.0% |
| Schweinfurt | 116,868 | 8.7% | 841 | 9.9% | 29 | 9.4% |
| Würzburg | 159,845 | 11.9% | 968 | 11.3% | 52 | 16.9% |
| Lower Franconia | 1,344,300 | 100.0% | 8,532 | 100.0% | 308 | 100.0% |
| 1939 | 844,732 |
| 1950 | 1,038,930 |
| 1961 | 1,089,983 |
| 1970 | 1,181,309 |
| 1987 | 1,202,711 |
| 2002 | 1,344,300 |
Historical country districts
Until the municipal reform ( "Kreisreform" ) in June 1972 Lower Franconia had 22 country districts, 16 of them were attached to the other six existing country districts Aschaffenburg, Bad Kissingen, Kitzingen, Miltenberg, Schweinfurt, Würzburg or united to one of the three new country districts Haßberge, Main-Spessart, Rhön-Grabfeld.
Old country district Now part of the country district(s) Alzenau .............. Aschaffenburg Bad Brückenau ........ Bad Kissingen Bad Neustadt/Saale.... Rhön-Grabfeld Ebern ................ Haßberge Gemünden ............. Main-Spessart Gerolzhofen .......... Schweinfurt, Kitzingen Hammelburg ........... Bad Kissingen Haßfurt .............. Haßberge Hofheim/Unterfranken . Haßberge Karlstadt ............ Main-Spessart Königshofen .......... Rhön-Grabfeld Lohr ................. Main-Spessart Marktheidenfeld ...... Main-Spessart, Miltenberg, Würzburg Mellrichstadt ........ Rhön-Grabfeld Obernburg ............ Miltenberg Ochsenfurt ........... Würzburg
Well known people
Education and startUps
- Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg
- Fachhochschule Aschaffenburg
- Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt
startUp centers:
- Zentec, Großwallstadt
- RSG Rhön-Saale Gründerzentrum, Bad Kissingen
- GRIBS Gründer- und Innovationszentrum, Schweinfurt
- Chancencenter Maintal, Schweinfurt
- TGZ Technologie- und Gründerzentrum, Würzburg
- ZmK Zentrum für moderne Kommunikationstechnologien, Würzburg
Links
See also:
External Links:
- http://www.unterfranken.de -- Official website
- http://www.regierung.unterfranken.bayern.de/english -- Official website
- http://flagspot.net/flags/de-by-uf.htmlde:Unterfranken