Eichenbühl

Eichenbühl
Eichenbühl
	; Coat of arms
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	Eichenbühl Location of Eichenbühl within Miltenberg district
	Coordinates: 49°42′N9°20′E / 49.700°N 9.333°E Coordinates: 49°42′N9°20′E / 49.700°N 9.333°E
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Unterfranken
District	Miltenberg
Government
• Mayor	Günther Winkler (CSU)
Area
• Total	31.24 km2 (12.06 sq mi)
Elevation	158 m (518 ft)
Population (2017-12-31) [1]
• Total	2,475
• Density	79/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	63928, 97896 (Ebenheiderhof)
Dialling codes	09371
Vehicle registration	MIL
Website	www.eichenbuehl.de

Last updated March 29, 2019

Eichenbühl is a community in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.

Miltenberg is a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the city of Aschaffenburg, the districts of Aschaffenburg and Main-Spessart, and the states of Baden-Württemberg and Hesse.

A Regierungsbezirk is a type of administrative division in Germany.

Lower Franconia is one of seven districts of Bavaria, Germany. The districts of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia make up the region of Franconia.

Geography

Location

Eichenbühl lies in the Bavarian Lower Main (Bayerischer Untermain) Region.

Constituent communities

Eichenbühl’s Ortsteile are Eichenbühl, Guggenberg, Heppdiel, Pfohlbach, Riedern and Windischbuchen.

History

From the outlying centre of Riedern came the like-named noble family of Riedern whose armorial bearing was a red pot, which is still a charge in the community’s coat of arms today.^[2] The community in the Archbishopric of Mainz was awarded in the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to the Principality of Leiningen, then mediatized by Baden, and in 1810 ceded to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. In the Hesse-Bavaria Rezeß in Frankfurt in 1816, it finally passed to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current community came into being with the Gemeindeedikt (“Municipal Edict”) of 1818.

In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field of an escutcheon (shield). This may be a geometric design or a symbolic representation of a person, animal, plant, object or other device. In French blazon, the ordinaries are called pièces while other charges are called meubles.

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon, surcoat, or tabard. The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement which in its whole consists of shield, supporters, crest, and motto. A coat of arms is traditionally unique to an individual person, family, state, organization or corporation.

The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, sometimes referred to in English as the Final Recess or the Imperial Recess of 1803, was a resolution passed by the Reichstag of the Holy Roman Empire on 24 March 1803. It was ratified by the Emperor Francis II and became law on 27 April. It proved to be the last significant law enacted by the Empire before its dissolution in 1806.

Population development

Within town limits, 2,553 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 2,680 in 1987, in 2000 2,809 and in 2013 2,572.

Politics

Community council

The mayor is Günther Winkler (CSU).

The council is made up of 14 council members, with the seats apportioned thus:

CSU 9 seats
SPD/Unabhängige Wählergemeinschaft 5 seats

The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany.

Coat of arms

The community’s arms might be described thus: Per saltire in chief gules a wheel spoked of six argent, dexter argent a pot of the first with two spouts, sinister a flag, the pole of the first per bend sinister, the flag square of the first to sinister of the pole, thereon a cross bottonnée of the field, in base gules issuant from the base point palewise an oak sprig leafed of two and acorned of three of the second.

The six-spoked Wheel of Mainz and the tinctures argent and gules (silver and red) refer to Electoral Mainz’s former overlordship. The red pot is taken from the arms formerly borne by the Lords of Riedern, who were first mentioned in 1206, and who died out in 1588. The flag stands for Heppdiel, the cross thereon being Saint Maurice’s cross, referring to Saint Maurice’s Parish Church in Heppdiel. The oak sprig is canting for the name Eichenbühl (Eiche means “oak” in German), and was drawn from Eichenbühl’s old arms, discarded in 1959.

The Wheel of Mainz or Mainzer Rad, in German, was the coat of arms of the Archbishopric of Mainz and thus also of the Electorate of Mainz (Kurmainz), in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It consists of a silver wheel with six spokes on a red background. The wheel can also be found in stonemasons' carvings and similar objects. Currently, the City of Mainz uses a double wheel connected by a silver cross.

Tinctures constitute the limited palette of colours and patterns used in heraldry. The need to define, depict, and correctly blazon the various tinctures is one of the most important aspects of heraldic art and design.

Saint Maurice was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century, and one of the favorite and most widely venerated saints of that group. He was the patron saint of several professions, locales, and kingdoms. He is also a highly revered saint in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and other churches of Oriental Orthodoxy.

The arms have been borne since 1995.^[3]

Sport

Yearly, the AvD/GAMSC International Lower Franconia Hillclimb is held. Each year, the hillclimb enjoys greater enthusiasm. The course is 3.05 km long and leads along Staatsstraße (State Road) 507 from Eichenbühl to Umpfenbach.

Economy and infrastructure

According to official statistics, there were 254 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in trade and transport in 1998. In other areas, 76 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls were employed, and 1,009 such workers worked from home. There were 0 processing businesses. Seven businesses were in construction, and furthermore, in 1999, there were 32 agricultural operations with a working area of 1 076 ha, of which 716 ha was cropland and 351 ha was meadowland.

Education

In 1999 the following institutions existed in Eichenbühl:

Kindergartens: 75 places with 107 children
Primary schools: 1 with 18 teachers and 309 pupils

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References

↑ "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). September 2018.
↑ Description and explanation of Eichenbühl’s arms at HdBG ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
↑ Description and explanation of Eichenbühl’s arms ^{[ permanent dead link ]}

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[1] "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). September 2018.

[2] Description and explanation of Eichenbühl’s arms at HdBG ^{[ permanent dead link ]}

[3] Description and explanation of Eichenbühl’s arms ^{[ permanent dead link ]}