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Lower Franconia is the northwestern administrative district of Bavaria. The core region of Lower Franconia is the part that is completely dated Main is traversed. It is also called Main Franconia designated. The seat of government of Lower Franconia is Wurzburg.
Regions
The Lower Franconia administrative district consists of the three independent cities of Aschaffenburg, Schweinfurt, Würzburg, and the nine districts of Aschaffenburg, Bad Kissingen, Haßberge, Kitzingen, Main-Spessart, Miltenberg, Rhön-Grabfeld, Schweinfurt and Würzburg.
The District of Lower Franconia is administratively the third municipal level in Bavaria as a representation of the municipalities and districts. The district is identical to the area of the government district.
The seat of the administration of the administrative district and the district is Wurzburg.
Major tourist regions are:
- The Wine-growing region Main Franconia along the Main:
- The Main triangle between Schweinfurt, Ochsenfurt and Gemünden and the one to the west Steigerwald foreland;
- The Main square, the river bend of the Main between the cities of Gemünden, Wertheim, Miltenberg and Aschaffenburg;
- The Franconian part of the low mountain range of the Rhön and the region Rhön-Saale in the northwest of the administrative district;
- The Grave field in the northeast on the border to Thuringia;
- The Hatred Mountains, the mountain range north of the Main on the eastern border Upper Franconia;
- The Steigerwald, southeast-facing "Grenzgebirge" and partly already in medium- and Upper Franconia;
- The Franconian part of the Spessart in the north-west;
- A small part of the Odenwald.
- Under the term German castle corner the region of the north, rich in castles and palaces, markets itself Hatred Mountains (Lower Franconia) and also the neighboring region in Upper Franconia.
places
- 1 Wurzburg
- Bishop's seat and university town, overlooked by the Marienberg fortress
- 2 Aschaffenburg - the "gateway to Spessart“
- 3 Schweinfurt - Ball bearing industry and Mainhafen
- 4 Bad Kissingen - Bavarian state bath and most famous health resort in Germany.
Aschaffenburg, Johannisburg Castle
Schweinfurt town hall
Bad Kissingen spa garden
- 5 Alzenau - with Alzenau Castle
- 6 Amorbach - with the Benedictine abbey, which is over 1250 years old
- 7 Bad Bocklet - Biedermeier bath in the valley of the Franconian Saale
- 8 Bad Bruckenau - Bavarian state bath in the heart of the Rhön
Alzenau Castle
Amorbach market square
Spa gardens and fountain hall in Bad Bocklet
Fürstenhof in Bad Brückenau
- Bad Koenigshofen, Spa town in Grave field
- Bad Neustadt, Bavarian State Bath
- Hammelburg, the oldest wine town in Franconia, in the southern Rhön
- Hassfurt, District town of the district of Haßberge
- Iphofen, renowned wine town with excellent preserved city fortifications
Bad Neustadt: Salzburg, Mint and Chapel
Iphofen, Rödelseer Tor
- Kitzingen am Main, historic wine trading town
- Klingenberg, Red wine city
- Koenigsberg in Bavaria, listed, medieval-romantic half-timbered town
- Mellrichstadt, the "young city within old walls"
- Miltenberg, romantic half-timbered town
- Münnerstadt, on the southern edge of the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park, magnificent half-timbered buildings
- Röttingen, southernmost city in the district of Würzburg, city wall with seven towers, viticulture
- Volkach with Riemenschneider's famous "Madonna in the Vineyard"
- Werneck with castle and park in the English style
Other goals
- Nature parks in Lower Franconia they are Rhön Biosphere Reserve (together with Hesse and Thuringia), the Haßberge Nature Park, the Steigerwald Nature Park (with Middle and Upper Franconia) and the Spessart Nature Park (together with Hessen).
- The Green ribbon is the first all-German nature conservation project and was created along the former inner-German border strip. It runs along the northern borders of Lower Franconia.
- The Taubertal, the Bavarian part is called Tauberfranken (places like Rothenburg, Tauberzell, Tauberrettersheim). The Baden-Württemberg part is the Baden Franconia (Creglingen, Weikersheim, Markelsheim, Bad Mergentheim, Tauberbischofsheim, Wertheim) traditional viticulture. Old types of wine such as Tauberschwarz. (Röttingen)
background
Lower Franconia is the westernmost of the three Franconian Administrative districts and is located in the northwest of the Free State Bavaria. The District of Lower Franconia is administratively the amalgamation of the districts in Lower Franconia (municipal level) and in terms of area congruent with the administrative district of Lower Franconia.
In Bavarian communities with predominantly members of the Catholic Church is according to the law Assumption Day (August 15) a public holiday. This applies to all municipalities in Old Bavaria and to around half of the Franconian municipalities. For planned activities and shopping, you should inquire beforehand whether there is a public holiday at the holiday destination.
With approx. 1.34 million Residents In 307 municipalities, Lower Franconia's population makes up around a third of Francs and 11 percent of Bavaria.
The biggest cities are Wurzburg (approx. 124,600 inhabitants), Aschaffenburg (approx. 68,700 inhabitants) and Schweinfurt (approx. 52,000 inhabitants).
The whole surface covers 8,532 km², which is a good third of Franconia and around 12% of the area of Bavaria. 2.15% of the entire area of Lower Franconia are protected, they are spread over 132 nature reserves with a total of 183 km².
The northernmost Job Lower Franconia is located at Fladungen at the Black Moor and the triangle is closed Hesse and Thuringia, at the same time also the northernmost point of Bavaria. The southernmost point is near Röttingen in the district of Würzburg, the extension from north to south is around 121 kilometers. The easternmost point of the administrative district is in Itzgrund bei Boars, the westernmost point is near Aschaffenburg, the dimensions from east to west are around 135 kilometers. The geographical center of Lower Franconia is Büchold, a district of the town of Arnstein in the Main-Spessart district.
The highest elevation In Lower Franconia that is 930 meters Dammersfeld in the Franconian part of the Rhön, it is not accessible as a shelling mountain for the Wildflecken military training area. The highest accessible point in Lower Franconia is the neighboring summit of the 928 meter high Kreuzbergs.
Main body of water is the Main, it flows from east to west through the southern and western parts of Lower Franconia and leaves the region in Bald on the Main (110 m). This is the lowest point in Lower Franconia and all of Bavaria, at 107 meters above sea level.
Lower Franconia is surrounded by the federal state Baden-Wuerttemberg in the southwest and from the state Hesse in the west and northwest, in the northeast the Free State closes Thuringia. In the east is the administrative district Upper Franconia neighboring, in the southeast Middle Franconia.
With Croatia's accession to the EU on July 1, 2013, the geographic center of the European Union now in Lower Franconia, on a meadow on Schulzengrundstrasse in the Oberwestern district of the Westerngrund community. The community is located in the west of Lower Franconia and north of Aschaffenburg. The exact coordinate is 50 ° 07 ‘1‘ ‘north latitude and 9 ° 14‘ 53 ‘‘ east longitude (50 ° 7 ′ 1 ″ N.9 ° 14 '53 "E) and is calculated by the French IGN (Institut national de l'information geographique et forestiere). On January 1, 2014, the French overseas department enters Mayotte, that is an archipelago northwest of Madagascar, the EU, then the center shifts again by approx. 500 meters, but remains on the area of the municipality Westerngrund.
little chronicle
In the Cultural history the area of today's Lower Franconia region belonged to the imperial direct Duchy of Eastern Franconia, one of the five tribal duchies in Eastern Franconia. The central duchy of Eastern Franconia could not be rebuilt after the collapse of the Carolingian Empire around the year 841, as happened in Bavaria and Saxony, for example. The dignity of the ducal title was subsequently awarded on various occasions, including to the Würzburg bishops, but this was done purely formally and without any claim.
in the middle Ages And until the early modern era, the area of today's administrative district, like all of Franconia, consisted of a large number of independent and autonomous states with ecclesiastical and secular rule as well as the free imperial city of Schweinfurt with the two free imperial villages of Gochsheim and Sennfeld and numerous other smaller ones Clashing with property. The prince-bishopric and bishopric of Würzburg had the largest share of the area, the prince-bishopric and bishopric of Bamberg, the bishopric of Fulda and the electorate of Mainz had other significant shares. The rulers were mostly imperial direct, that is, they were directly subordinate to the emperor, a duke (the later kings) was not interposed.
The Baroque period (End of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th century) is a cultural heyday for the region: The family of Count of Schönborn provided numerous prince-bishops in the region and developed extensive construction activity: the residences and palace complexes were built in and around Würzburg and Aschaffenburg.
1803 is the year of Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and thus the prelude to secularization, the secular princes should be compensated for the previous revolutionary wars under Napoleonic influence. For this purpose, the ecclesiastical principalities and the free imperial cities, which were dissolved or lost their independence, were used. Schweinfurt became Bavarian as early as 1803, the areas of the Hochstifte were temporarily converted into the "Grand Duchy of Würzburg", the "Principality of Aschaffenburg" and the "Grand Duchy of Frankfurt", but these were dissolved again by 1814 at the latest and became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria, to which no historical or political ties existed until then.
The castles of the prince-bishops in Würzburg and Aschaffenburg were used privately by the Bavarian princes. From 1814, the area was initially referred to administratively as the "Lower Main District" and from 1838 as the "Administrative District of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg"; Lower Franconia administrative district. The seat of the regional administration was Würzburg from the beginning.
Historical key data for the whole of Franconia see also in corresponding article.
regional customs
- The Light rooms were a widespread custom of the village population in the whole of northern Lower Franconia in the winter time, which in the region around the Grave field is being revived today.
language
In the area will Lower Franconian, a variant of the Franconian or East Franconian dialect, spoken. Regionally, the Franconian-Würzburg dialect in central and southern Lower Franconia, in the Bamberg dialect in eastern Lower Franconia, can be used again Rhön dialect can be distinguished with a language element of the Fulda dialect and an element of Henneberg in the grave field. The dialect in the Aschaffenburg area represents a transition to the Hessian dialect, on the southern edge of Lower Franconia there is the language transition to Hohenlohe.
The clearest characteristic in the pronunciation, as for the whole Franconian language, is the replacement of the consonants p and t by b and d, in technical language called the internal German consonant weakening: "Franconian" becomes "Franconian", "mother" becomes the " Mudda ".
The dialect forms are then distinguished from one another less in terms of pronunciation, but rather in terms of the vocabulary used for the terms that are generally used. In rural areas, depending on the fragmentation of the regional rulers, there are often again very different local dialects to be identified on a small scale.
The best-known representative of Lower Franconia in the media, albeit in a tame version that is understandable nationwide, is the fictional character Erwin Pelzig by the Würzburg cabaret artist Frank-Markus Barwasser.
High German is of course understood everywhere and also spoken in the larger towns, the various dialect forms have generally been in decline since the middle of the last century.
It is officially responsible for language research in the region Lower Franconian Dialect Institute at the University of Würzburg.
See also that bibliography.
getting there
By plane
The closest international airports are the airport Frankfurt
(IATA: FRA) in the west and the Nuremberg Airport(IATA: NUE) in the south East.
In addition, in many cities there are smaller airfields and grass runways for fan guns and other smaller aircraft.
By train
ICE train stations in Lower Franconia are Aschaffenburg Hbf and Würzburg central station. In the southeastern neighbor Middle Franconia is the Fürth train station quickly accessible from northern Lower Franconia in East Hesse the Fulda train station.
In the street
Highway routes through Lower Franconia are:
- The most important north-south connection is the motorway
(Flensburg- Feet): Germany's longest autobahn with a four-lane expansion leads from north to south through Lower Franconia.
- The highway
(of the Dutch Limit up Passau and Austria) is Germany's second longest motorway. The route leads from the Frankfurt area from west to south-east through Lower Franconia and on to Middle Franconia (Nuremberg) and via the motorway 
until after Munich in the south. The section from Aschaffenburg to Biebelried is partially expanded to six lanes.
The two aforementioned routes are important nationwide north-south connections on the entire sections in the region are susceptible to the Holiday traffic jams During vacation times, especially at the beginning and end of the vacation in the densely populated federal states of western and northern Germany.
- The four-lane highway
is the Main valley autobahn and leads from the triangle Werntal near Schweinfurt to the east Bamberg and Bayreuth.
- The highway
is the Thuringian Forest Highway and leads from Schweinfurt to Erfurt.
- The four-lane motorway
leads from Würzburg to the south into the area Stuttgart and on to near the Swiss Border.
Motorway junction are the Biebelried junction (A3, A7) and Schweinfurt-Werneck (A7, A70), the Werntal triangle (A70, A71) and the Würzburg-West triangle (A3, A81).
Federal highways through Lower Franconia are:
The B19 leads from Thuringia through Lower Franconia further south to the Allgäu.
The B27 executes Saxony-Anhalt and East Hesse through Lower Franconia further down Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Tourist road routes through Lower Franconia are:
- The romantic street is the oldest holiday route in Germany and leads from the Main to the Allgäu.
- The Castle Road leads from the Electoral Palatinate through the easternmost part of Lower Franconia (Rentweinsdorf, Boars, Pfarrweisach, and Maroldsweisach until after Upper Franconia.
By boat
The main is up Bamberg and thus navigable along its entire length in Lower Franconia:
At the Main square:
- Of Miltenberg via Bürgstadt to Wertheim there is a regular service.
- Of Lohr am Main from there is a liner service to Marktheidenfeld.
At the Main triangle:
- Of Wurzburg from there is a connection upstream to Randersacker and downstream to Veitshochheim.
- Of Volkach The Volkacher Mainschleife is served by ship from here.
By bicycle
Long-distance cycle routes through the region are:
- The Three-country cycle route traverses the room Odenwald;
- The Main cycle path leads from the Weißmain and Rotmain springs southeast of Kulmbach to the Rhine in Mainz-Kastel in Hesse;
- The Rhön cycle path leads from Thuringia via East Hesse and the Hochrhön to Hammelburg.
- The cycle route of the Romantic road leads from Würzburg to Füssen on the Alps.
For regional cycle routes, see the section activities.
mobility
The tariff area of the VAB with headquarters in Aschaffenburg is located on the Bavarian Untermain in the Aschaffenburg area. There is a transitional tariff to the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV). The OVF - Omnibusverkehr Franken runs throughout Lower Franconia with the exception of the aforementioned tariff area of the VAB, details about routes, timetables and prices can be found on the Internet OVF.
Tourist Attractions
Churches and monasteries
The oldest Churches of Lower Franconia are in Brendlorenzen, a district of Bad Neustadtwho have favourited Carolingian Parish Church of St. John Baptista, its origin is dated to around the year 700, and in Würzburg on the Festivities Marienberg the Marienkirche, it is classified in the year 705. St. Johannes Baptista, the exact date cannot be proven here, is possibly the oldest intact church building in Germany, both churches are among the oldest buildings in the country.
Lower Franconia's only one Dom, built from 1040, is also in the episcopal city of Würzburg. With a total of over 50 churches, Würzburg also has the largest number.
The medieval Fortified churches are a Lower Franconian specialty: there are many well-preserved specimens in the Franconian pre-Rhön to visit, for example the in Ostheim before the Rhön, the fortified church is considered to be the largest of its kind in Germany and has been superbly preserved.
Lower Franconian places worth seeing and visiting Monastery complexes are for example:
- The Benedictine abbey in Amorbach According to tradition, it was founded in 734. The baroque-style former abbey church with its organ is well worth seeing.
- Maria Bildhausen at Münnerstadt, a first monastery was mentioned here in 762.
- The Münsterschwarzach Abbey is today one of the most important Benedictine monasteries in Germany. A first monastery was founded in 780.
- The Franciscan Monastery Kreuzberg with its own monastery brewery.
- The Franciscan Monastery Engelberg in the southern Spessart, a dark monastery beer is served from a wooden barrel.
- The Vogelsburg Abbey, with a wide view and picturesquely situated in the vineyards of the Volkacher Mainschleife is a popular destination on Main triangle.
Castles, chateaux and palaces
Lower Franconia is like all of Franconia Schlösserland: In the Baroque period, a number of palaces and magnificent buildings were built among the building-mad church princes of the Count von Schönborn family; The highlight is the residence in Wurzburg (created by Balthasar Neumann) as part of the UNESCO World Heritage, other buildings in Neumann are the castles in Veitshochheim and Werneck;
It has a particularly high density of country castles Grave field and the space Hatred Mountains to offer.
Museums
The supraregional the most important museums in the region Main Franconian Museum at the Marienberg fortress in WurzburgWorks by Tilman Riemenschneider are shown, as well as a prehistoric collection, evidence of Franconian wine culture and a folklore department. In Schweinfurt is that Georg Schäfer Museum, it is the most important private collection of art in the German-speaking area of the 19th century.
The Museums in Aschach Castle in Aschach at Bad Bocklet (Graf-Luxburg-Museum, Volkskundemuseum and School Museum) are museums in the Lower Franconia district.
In Fladungen is that Franconian open air museum: shows the rural building culture and village living and business in Lower Franconia on a museum site with 7 hectares and eight farmsteads.
Museums too special topics are for example that German Bicycle Museum (in Bad Bruckenau), the Bismarck Museum (in Bad Kissingen), or the Erich Kästner Library in Oberschwarzach on Steigerwald. In Klingenberg am Main is there a Viticulture Museum.
There are also numerous other museums with one local history focus.
activities
- Amusement parks are the leisure land Geiselwind, in Sambachshof at Bad Koenigshofen in the Grave field is a Fairytale forest.
- A wildlife Park is located in Heigenbrücken in the Spessart Aschaffenburg.
- The Steigerwald Motodrom in Gerolzhofen is a Outdoor go-kart track with rental kart.
Nostalgia trains
- The museum train Rhönzügle of Open air museum in Fladungen runs in summer on the route of the former Streutalbahn, there are stops Fladungen, Ostheim before the Rhön and Mellrichstadt. The steam locomotive “98 886” with the nickname “Bocke (r) le” dates from 1924 and was built by Krauss-Maffei in Munich / Allach built, it is under monument protection, speeds up to 40 km / h and is on loan from the city of Schweinfurt to the museum.
- Rhönzügle. Open: from the beginning of April to the end of October.Price: one way adult € 6.
- The Main loop railway runs in summer between Volkach-Astheim, Escherndorf and Seligenstadt near Würzburg on the northern slope of the Volkacher Mainschleife, driven in a rail bus born in 1960. The route is a total of 10 kilometers. At Seligenstadt station there is a connection to the Würzburg - Schweinfurt railway line. In Volkach there is a connection to the passenger shipping on the Main or the passenger ship Undine every two hours.
- Main loop railway. Tel.: 49 (0)152 02482125. Open: From Easter to the end of October.Price: one way adult € 4.00 (as of 2014).
Winter sports
Alpine winter sports to a significant extent are available in several ski areas Rhön, especially from Bischofsheim from on Kreuzberg and on the Arnsberg possible, for detailed information see the topic article Winter sports in the Rhön.
regional bike routes
Regular events
- An overview of the numerous Wine festivals in the region can be found in the article on the region Main Franconia.
- Franconian Passion Play Sommersdorf (District of Euerbach in the district Schweinfurt);
- For the first time in 1933, since then every five years from June to September, the next time in 2018; info ;
- The ZF Sachs Franken Classic is a vintage car rally at Whitsun through all of Lower Franconia and the neighboring regions, start and finish is Bad Kissingen.
kitchen
Lower Franconian cuisine as part of Franconian cuisine can generally be described as hearty and hearty: the main course is always meat, the main side dishes such as dumplings, potatoes or pasta are filling, the portions are always sufficient.
With the approach to the wine-growing regions on the Main, however, other food side dishes such as vegetables and salad are becoming increasingly important, aromatic herbs are also used more intensively and the preparation methods are also becoming more sophisticated.
The wine-growing region of Lower Franconia has also produced some star and star chefs who are well known in the media: Bernhard Reiser cooks in Wurzburg in the Reisers am Stein, TV chef and star chef Stefan Marquard, native of Schweinfurt, learned in Volkach Butcher, Ralf Zacherl started his career in his parents' inn deaf FranconianWertheim near the Lower Franconian border.
There is detailed information on Franconian cuisine in general in the separate topic article Eating and drinking in Franconia, to the beer Breweries in Franconia and to liquor in Distilleries in Franconia.
Detailed information on the Franconian wine see the article on the region Main Franconia. The Tourismusverein Churfranken e.V offers an overview of the culinary specialties: Enjoyment & wine in Churfranken
Regional specialities
- Franconian Blue Zipfl: Let the small sausages steep in a stock of root vegetables, onions, white wine and a little vinegar;
- Meter bratwurst, Franconian Rostbratwurst, rolled in lengths of half a meter or more, is available in Sulzfeld am Main;
- Franconian pot roast
- Ribb'le with Graud: similar to the Kassler ribs on sauerkraut
- Horseradish: Horseradish dressed with butter and vegetable stock.
- Würzburger Bratwurst also "Winzerbratwurst", is a slightly more spicy bratwurst that also contains a portion of white Franconian wine. It is not grilled, but fried in fat in the pan and bent in the middle as "kinked" in the bread roll (Wake up) served.
- Würzburger Knäudele red or white: small greath sausage (smoked blood sausage or smoked liver sausage), also called "Blunzn";
Everyday use
Custom baked goods are baked goods made on a specific date or on the occasion of the year:
- donuts at Mardi Gras, the "Fosenochdsgrobfe" are baked in Lower Franconia from a yeast dough and filled exclusively with Hiffenmark (rose hip jam) or not at all and not dusted with icing sugar.
- Easter stork: a traditional Easter baked goods Ostheim before the Rhön;
- Wallweck: are croissant-shaped baked goods that used to be sold to pilgrims at the pilgrimage destination and are now rarely available on the occasion of a pilgrimage.
- Muscats, a pastry that there is only in Dettelbach gives. It was invented especially for the pilgrims and is flavored with cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
- A Plootz is a flat and large yeast cake baked in a tray with different toppings: as a rather sweet cheeseplootz (Kaseplootz) with dark baked quark, as a hearty onion plootz thickly topped with onions and bacon, or also in variants with potatoes or with fruit (plum plootz, apple plootz ).
- The plootz is baked today as an everyday pastry all year round and on various festive occasions. The Käseplootz had its historical significance especially at the parish fair, where it had to be ordered in advance from the village bakery due to the large number of items.
Wallweck
Rhöner Plootz
beer
With its core region Wine francs Lower Franconia stands for that Franconian wineHowever, beer also plays a significant role as a popular drink in the Bavarian administrative district.
The rather small and medium-sized ones are characteristic of the region Breweries: When the brewery died out after the end of the Second World War, just under fifty companies remained. In terms of number, these are significantly fewer than, for example, in the neighboring one Upper Franconia, but still more than in the megacities of Berlin, Hamburg and Munich combined. The Lower Franconian breweries, which are relatively small in comparison with the rest of Germany, are often run as a family business, they are mostly only represented locally and are no longer present in the beverage markets in the district but one, and the breweries generally maintain a sense of home.
A special Lower Franconian Type of beer does not exist, Pils and export beer are mainly brewed and drunk, but the breweries also always have special beers and seasonal beers on offer, examples are organic beer (Rother Rhön brewery), weisse, smoked beer or cellar beer. Solar beer, 80 percent of the energy used in production comes from the sun, is available from Raab Brewery in Hofheim. Krautheimer in Volkach still operates a brewery's own malt house.
Home brew is increasingly coming back into fashion, especially in rural areas, but in many cases still has something like "experimental character". Community breweries were widespread throughout Franconia until the middle of the last century. Private individuals with brewing rights were allowed to brew their own simple and inexpensive home brew beer in the community's brewery. The transfer of the annual tax-free brewing quotas (up to 200 liters / person) according to the brewing law was regulated in the family's inheritance law.
In the villages in northern Lower Franconia, a revival of this tradition of home brew can be observed in recent years: there is a community brewery accessible to everyone, including demonstrations Franconian open air museum in Fladungen, There are also a good dozen other community breweries, e.g. in Thundorf (near Bad Kissingen), in top cities (at Boars) or in Unterwaldbehrungen (north of Bad Neustadt).
The many are characteristic of the party-loving beer country of Lower Franconia Beer festivals In summer: the activists in the sports, music, shooting and other clubs often only wait for an anniversary year to set up a beer tent and then organize a big party over the weekend: despite or maybe because of the large offer, at times if a third of all non-commercial festivals organized by clubs in the Federal Republic of Germany take place in Lower Franconia, the beer tents are usually well attended. As a result, the classic Bavarian beer gardens are represented rather below average in Lower Franconia. Some of the breweries hold annual brewery festivals on a regular basis.
A detailed account of each Breweries in Lower Franconia is in the topic article Breweries in Franconia (total) led.
security
health
- nationwide On-call number 116 117 (free of charge)
- Emergency services in Lower Franconia. Tel.: 49 (0)1805 191212. 14 cents / min. from the German landline network, mobile phone max. 42 cents / min.
climate
The climate in Lower Franconia can be classified as mild and moderate in regional comparison. While the northern part around Rhön, northern Saale region and Grabfeld still has a rather rough low mountain range climate, the region on the Main is considered to be mild and protected with only a few frost days in winter, one for wine growing good climate.
Lower Franconia is low precipitation. in the Main triangle And in the Rhön-Saale region, the precipitation is only a little over 500 mm per year, and in the Spessart, the wettest corner of Lower Franconia, only values of up to around 800 mm per year are achieved, which roughly corresponds to the national German average. For comparison: in the Bavarian Alps, peak values of up to 2000 mm per year are possible, which corresponds to 2000 liters per square meter.
The winemakers in Main Franconia are beneficiaries of the Climate change: With the rising temperatures, the Oechsle values of the grapes for the Franconian wine also rise, the quality has generally been measurably better in recent years. The mean sugar content has risen in the last few decades from around 52 to 53 Öchsle to over 80 Öchsle in the new millennium.
In the middle of the last century, the red wine that was especially warm in need of warmth was mostly ridiculed because of the significantly colder annual average temperatures compared to the southern neighboring states, and those winegrowers who planted red grapevines were dismissed as willing to experiment. Franconian red wine is now also classified as fully competitive worldwide.
trips
The Tourismusverein Churfranken e.V. offers a comprehensive overview of activities in the region: Discover Churfranken actively
literature
- ; Main post (Ed.): Castles and palaces in Lower Franconia. Wurzburg, 2009 (5th edition), ISBN 978-3925232619 ; 191 pages. originated from a series in the regional newspaper Main-Post, approx. € 9.95.
- ; Main post (Ed.): Churches and monasteries in Lower Franconia. Wurzburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3925232664 ; 2016 pages. originated from a series in the regional newspaper Main-Post, approx. € 9.95.
- : Palaces and fortresses in Lower Franconia: A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Lower Franconian independent cities and districts. Nobleman, 2002, ISBN 978-3871913099 ; 224 pages. approx. 39.-
- ; Bavaria, State Office for Monument Preservation, Munich (Ed.): Monuments in Bavaria, 7 vols. In 8 Tl. Vol., Vol. 6, Lower Franconia: VI; Vol.I / part 2. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1985, Monuments in Bavaria, ISBN 978-3486523973 ; 574 pages. List of monuments, approx. € 69.90
- ; District of Lower Franconia (Ed.): Traditional costumes in Bavaria: UNTERFRANKEN. Wurzburg: Real publisher, 1982, ISBN 3-429-00783-6 ; 176 pages.
history
- : Lower Franconia in Bavaria 1814-2014 / Historical atlas for the 200th anniversary. 2014, ISBN 978-3-88778-405-8 ; 128 pages. 24.- €
language
- : Dictionary of Lower Franconia. Königshausen & Neumann, 2008 (3rd edition), ISBN 9783826040337 ; 328 pages. € 29.80 A lexicographical inventory: 4500 words from all regions of Lower Franconia.
- : Small Lower Franconian Language Atlas (KUSs). University Press Winter, 2007, ISBN 9783825353261 ; 121 pages. 28.- € 50 cards on the characteristics of the Lower Franconian dialects.
Web links
- http://www.unterfranken.de - Official website of Lower Franconia
- Administrative region of Lower Franconia: www.unterfranken-in-zahlen.de;
- District of Lower Franconia: www. Bezirk-unterfranken.de;
- Frankenbund e.V .: www.frankenbund.de (Association for Franconian regional studies and culture).
- Franconia online (Journal for Franconian regional studies and culture, Frankenbund e.V.)
