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 Lower Franconia - Definition 

Statistics
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).


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






Contents
1 Area and population
2 Historical country districts
3 Wellknown peoples
4 Education and startUps
5 Links

Area and population 

City or district       population(2002)   area/km²       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 Würzburg .....   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%
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%

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, 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

Wellknown peoples

Education and startUps

University/Fachhochschulen:

  • Julius Maximilians Universität
  • 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:

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