LOWER FRANCONIA

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

Contents

Area and population

Historical country districts

Well known people

Education and start ups

See also

External links

Area and population

City or District	Population (2005)		Area (km²)		Communities
City of Aschaffenburg	68,642	5.1%	62	0.7%	1	0.3%
City of Schweinfurt	54,273	4.0%	36	0.4%	1	0.3%
City of Würzburg	133,906	10.0%	88	1.0%	1	0.3%
Aschaffenburg	174,974	13.0%	699	8.2%	32	10.4%
Bad Kissingen	107,988	8.0%	1,137	13.3%	26	8.4%
Haßberge	87,607	6.5%	956	11.2%	26	8.4%
Kitzingen	89,501	6.7%	684	8.0%	31	10.1%
Main-Spessart	131,218	9.8%	1,322	15.5%	40	13.0%
Miltenberg	131,376	9.8%	716	8.4%	32	10.4%
Rhön-Grabfeld	86,094	6.4%	1,022	12.0%	37	12.0%
Schweinfurt	115,924	8.6%	842	9.9%	29	9.4%
Würzburg	159,978	11.9%	968	11.3%	52	16.9%
''Total''	1,341,481	100.0%	8,531	100.0%	308	100.0%

'Historical population'
1910	710,943
1939'	844,732
1950'	1,038,930
1961'	1,089,983
1970'	1,181,309
1987'	1,202,711
2002'	1,344,300
2004'	1,344,629
2005'	1,341,481

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	Current district(s)
Alzenau	Aschaffenburg
Bad Brückenau	Bad Kissingen
Bad Neustadt/Saale	Rhön-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

Well known people

★ Florian Geyer

★ Tilman Riemenschneider

★ Balthasar Neumann

★ Friedrich Rückert

★ Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

★ Leonhard Frank

★ Carl Diem

★ Dirk Nowitzki

Education and start ups

University/Fachhochschulen:

★ Julius-Maximilians-Universitat, Wurzburg

★ Fachhochschule Aschaffenburg

★ Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt
Start up 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

See also

★ Middle Franconia

★ Upper Franconia

External links

★ Official website

★ Official website in English

★ Official website

★ Flag at Flagspot

★ Unterfranken 1910

★ Statistics

★ Lower Franconia, described by a native franc resident