Place:Unterfranken, Bayern, Germany

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NameUnterfranken
Alt namesLower Franconiasource: Wikipedia
TypeRegierungsbezirk
Coordinates50.167°N 10.0°E
Located inBayern, Germany
Contained Places
District
Aschaffenburg
Haßberge
Kissingen
Kitzingen
Main-Spessart
Miltenberg
Rhön-Grabfeld
Schweinfurt
Würzburg
Inhabited place
Alzenau
Arnstein
Aub
Bad Bocklet
Bad Königshofen
Bad Neustadt an der Saale
Bergrheinfeld
Bergtheim
Biebelried
Birkenfeld
Bischofsheim an der Rhön
Brendlorenzen
Brünnau
Burgsinn
Dettelbach
Dittelbrunn
Dorfprozelten ( 1000 - )
Ebern
Eibelstadt
Eichenbühl
Eisingen
Eltmann
Fladungen
Frammersbach
Frauenroth
Gaibach
Gelchsheim
Geldersheim
Gemünden
Geroda
Giebelstadt
Gochsheim
Gramschatz
Gross Eibstadt
Grossostheim
Gössenheim
Hammelburg
Hassfurt
Heimbuchenthal
Hessenthal
Heustreu
Hofheim in Unterfranken
Homberg
Höchberg
Hösbach
Ilmbach
Iphofen
Kahl am Main
Karlstadt
Kirchlauter
Kleinlangheim
Klingenberg am Main
Knetzgau
Königsberg in Bayern
Lengfurt
Lohr am Main
Maidbronn
Mainbernheim
Marktbreit
Marktheidenfeld
Maroldsweisach
Mechenhard
Mellrichstadt
Münsterschwarzach
Neustadt am Main ( 500 - )
Nordheim von der Rhön
Obernburg
Oberschwappach
Oberstreu
Obertheres
Ostheim vor der Rhön
Pfarrweisach
Poppenhausen
Rentweinsdorf
Riedern
Rieneck
Rimpar
Rottendorf
Rödelsee
Röttingen
Saal an der Saale
Schimborn
Stadtlauringen
Stadtprozelten
Stockstadt
Sulzheim
Thüngen
Triefenstein
Tückelhausen
Uettingen
Unsleben
Untereisenheim
Veitshöchheim
Volkach
Werneck
Wiesentheid
Wildflecken
Wörth
Zeil
Zellingen
Zeuzleben
Unknown
Thundorf
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source: Family History Library Catalog


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Lower Franconia is one of the three administrative regions of Franconia in Bavaria (seven regions), Germany (22 regions in five Federal States, 11 Federal States are not subdivided into regions).

The district was formed in 1817 under the name of Untermainkreis (Lower Main District) and renamed in 1837 as Unterfranken und 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 resurrected.

Unterfranken is the north-west part of Franconia and consists of three district-free cities ("Kreisfreie Städte") and nine country districts ("Landkreise").

The major portion of the Franconian wine region is situated in Lower Franconia.

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Historical country districts

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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 Current district(s)
Alzenau Aschaffenburg
Bad Brückenau Bad Kissingen
Bad Neustadt/SaaleRhön-Grabfeld
Ebern Haßberge
Gemünden Main-Spessart
Gerolzhofen Schweinfurt, Kitzingen,
Hassberge, Würzburg
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
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