Mainaschaff

Mainaschaff is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg in Bavaria.

  • 2.1 Etymology
  • 2.2 Earlier spellings
  • 4.1 municipal
  • 4.2 Coat of Arms
  • 5.1 theater
  • 5.2 Structures
  • 5.3 monuments
  • 5.4 parks
  • 6.1 traffic
  • 6.2 Established businesses

Geography

Geographical Location

The community is located west adjacent to the city of Aschaffenburg on the right bank of the Main River, close to the border with Hesse. Its highest point is about 700 m southwest of Sternberg at about 330 m above sea level. NN; its lowest at 108.5 m above sea level. NN in Main.

Community structure

The municipality has an officially designated Mainaschaff district. There is only the district Mainaschaff.

Neighboring communities

Name

Etymology

His original name of the place has Aschaff from the river Aschaff on which it lies. Later Aschaff (now Waldaschaff ) added the additional Main to distinguish it from the nearby place.

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

  • 950 Ascafa
  • 1184 Aschapha
  • 1222 Aschaffe
  • 1248 Ascaffe
  • 1250 Ascaff
  • 1282 Asschaf

History

Mainaschaff was first in the privilege of Pope Lucius III. mentioned in the Pen Aschaffenburg of 1184 as a possession available. At the beginning of the 12th century belonged to the small town, which consisted mainly of agricultural farms, to the Abbey of St. Peter and Alexander ( see also: Collegiate Church of St. Peter and Alexander) in Aschaffenburg. The people who lived mainly also from fruit -growing and fishing had to be made to this pin current taxes and compulsory labor. It was not until 1872 Mainaschaff was a separate municipality. From 1917 to 1972 was at about the level of Mainaschaff Ankergasse a barrage with footbridge over the River Main, with a power plant in middle of the river and with a Floßgasse on Mainaschaffer shore. Sluice and fishway were on the Stockstädter banks of the Main.

Policy

Parish council

The local council of Mainaschaff has (without mayor) 20 members.

Coat of arms

Blazon: A silver capstan shaft; front five shared by gold and red rear in red half, standing Silver Wheel, in the sign blue.

Coat of Arms History: The wave Göpel symbolizes the confluence of the rivers Main and Aschaff. Their names are also speaking for the community name. The impaired division of red and gold in the front half of the shield comes from the coat of arms of the Counts of Rieneck, which included parts of the community in history. Half the wheel comes from the coat of arms of Kurstaats Mainz, to which the village belonged until 1803. The colors blue and silver in the sign in the wave Göpel are the colors of Bavaria, the place is one of the since 1816. The coat of arms of Mainaschaff was awarded on 28 August 1968.

Culture and sights

Theater

  • In Mainaschaff the Puppet Theatre Puppet ship sits.
  • In addition, the municipality bears the Main Valley Hall, taking place in the cultural and sporting events. Particularly well known is the hall because of the musical performances the Academy of Social Education of the district of Aschaffenburg and the choral society Edelweiss Mainaschaff.

Structures

The Chapel Hill, a former since the 14th century as a vineyard serving size as large hill with a chapel and a statue of Mary, for over a hundred years is considered a place of pilgrimage and is always the target of numerous processions. Public facilities (playground, etc.) make him a well-known tourist destination. On this mountain is also the entrance to an old, but accessible only in this century the public grotto. He is also active again used as a vineyard since 2005. In addition, there are several blasted bunker Wetterau -Main -Tauber -position. Until the widening of the O 3 was the former highway parking, a viewing pavilion in the form of a monopteros.

Monuments

→ List of monuments in Mainaschaff

Parks

The Mainparksee, a now approximately 24 -acre lake, which was created from a quarry in the construction of the highway in the 1950s, provides a permanent camping and swimming. Since 2005, in Mainaschaff on the grounds of the Main Park lake one of the biggest sauna landscapes in Germany resident. It was opened to the public as a recreational area.

In Mainaschaffer Strietwald there is a formerly used as a hard quarry volcanic vent with deposits of the mineral olivine nephelinite.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

  • Mainaschaff is just off the A3 motorway (exit Aschaffenburg West) and on the main road between 8 Kleinostheim and Aschaffenburg.
  • For long distance and commuter railway line Aschaffenburg - Frankfurt by the Aschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof accessible. The transport route Aschaffenburg - Darmstadt (Rhein -Main- Bahn, line RB 75) holds with all trains in Mainaschaff. The station is located at the intersection Milan and Bahnhofstrasse and offers a park-and -ride facility.
  • The community is connected to the city and regional bus services of the transport company Untermain and is from the line 14 ( bus ) and line 50 ( regional bus Aschaffenburg - Mainaschaff - Kleinostheim - Karlstejn - Kahl) served.

Established businesses

  • F.a.n. frankenstolz

Local color

The Mainaschaffer ( in dialect also Oscheffer, Escheffer or Öscheffer called ) have, as the inhabitants of many other villages whose lands are sandy soil, the sand Ortsnecknamen rabbits, resulting in the soldiers language means " infantryman ".

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