Unterfranken

Statistics
State:Bavaria
Capital:Wrzburg
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). It's the north-west part of Franconia and consists of three district-free cities ( "Kreisfreie Stdte" ) and nine country districts ( "Landkreise" ).

Area and population

  City or district       population(2002)   area/km       communities  City of Aschaffenburg     68,682   5.1%      63   o.7%     1   o.3%  City of Schweinfurt ..    54,670   4.1%      36   o.4%     1   o.3%  City of Wrzburg .....   131,582   9.8%      88   1.0%     1   o.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%  Haberge .............    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%  Rhn-Grabfeld ........    86,811   6.5%   1,022  12.0%    37  12.0%  Schweinfurt ..........   116,868   8.7%     841   9.9%    29   9.4%  Wrzburg .............   159,845  11.9%     968  11.3%    52  16.9%  Lower Franconia        1,344,300 100.0%   8,532 100.0%   308 100.0% 
Historical Population of Lower Franconia: 
   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, Wrzburg or united to one of the three new country districts Haberge, Main-Spessart, Rhn-Grabfeld.
  Old country district   Now part of the country district(s)  Alzenau .............. Aschaffenburg  Bad Brckenau ........ Bad Kissingen  Bad Neustadt/Saale.... Rhn-Grabfeld  Ebern ................ Haberge  Gemnden ............. Main-Spessart  Gerolzhofen .......... Schweinfurt, Kitzingen  Hammelburg ........... Bad Kissingen  Hafurt .............. Haberge  Hofheim/Unterfranken . Haberge  Karlstadt ............ Main-Spessart  Knigshofen .......... Rhn-Grabfeld  Lohr ................. Main-Spessart  Marktheidenfeld ...... Main-Spessart, Miltenberg, Wrzburg  Mellrichstadt ........ Rhn-Grabfeld  Obernburg ............ Miltenberg  Ochsenfurt ........... Wrzburg 

Wellknown peoples

Education and startUps

University/Fachhochschulen:
  • Julius Maximilians Universitt
  • Fachhochschule Aschaffenburg
  • Fachhochschule Wrzburg-Schweinfurt
startUp centers:
  • Zentec, Growallstadt
  • RSG Rhn-Saale Grnderzentrum, Bad Kissingen
  • GRIBS Grnder- und Innovationszentrum, Schweinfurt
  • Chancencenter Maintal, Schweinfurt
  • TGZ Technologie- und Grnderzentrum, Wrzburg
  • ZmK Zentrum fr moderne Kommunikationstechnologien, Wrzburg

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.html

 

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