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Encyclopedia > Lower Franconia
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

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  Results from FactBites:
 
Franconia - LoveToKnow 1911 (695 words)
The word Franconia, first used in a Latin charter of 10J3, was applied like the words France, Francia and Franken, to a portion of the land occupied by the Franks.
The most influential family in Rhenish Franconia was that of the Salians, the head of which early in the 10th century was Conrad the Red, duke of Lorraine, and son-in-law of Otto the Great.
The lands formerly comprised in the duchy of Franconia are now divided between the kingdoms of Bavaria and Wurttemberg, the grandduchies of Baden and Hesse, and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.
Lower Franconia - Area of cultural Experiences and high-tech location (2039 words)
It is thus our goal in Lower Franconia to educate highly qualified and motivated employees, to further develop the business-friendly background conditions and to maintain the high standard of life here, aspects which without a doubt are major deciding factors for the attractiveness of a business location.
Lower Franconia is conscious of this challenge and is anything but "helpless" in the global competition of the economic regions.
Lower Franconia is proud to be the corporate location of numerous global players in classical industries such as mechanical engineering, automotive supply, electrical engineering and control systems engineering.
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