Partenstein

Partenstein is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Main -Spessart and the seat of the administrative community Partenstein. Through the town, the highway passes 276

• 2.1 Etymology
• 2.2 Earlier spellings

• 3.1 religions
• 3.2 Population development

• 4.1 community partnership

• 5.1 Economy, agriculture and forestry

• 6.1 educational institutions
• 6.2 Attractions
• 6.3 monuments
• 6.4 associations

Geography

Geographical Location

Partenstein lies in the region Main Spessart Spessart in the middle of the left bank of Lohr, about seven kilometers northwest of the town of Lohr am Main.

Community structure

There is only one district to the district Partenstein.

Neighboring communities

Name

Etymology

His name has become the place Partenstein from the castle Bartenstein, which is now a ruin on a cliff above the village.

Earlier spellings

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

History

The village Partenstein emerged as a town at the foot of the 1180 -built by the Counts of Rieneck Castle Bartenstein. She was the administrative seat of the homonymous Office Partenstein. This had varying Men: First the Counts of Rieneck, since about 1277 the archbishops of Mainz and the Lords and Counts of Hanau together, from 1684 then only the archdiocese. Already in 1626 the castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. In the 16th and 17th centuries was made in the woods around Partenstein forest glass. Another important source of income until the 19th century was the timber trade and wood processing.

As part of the archbishopric of Mainz Partenstein fell in the kingdom in 1803 to the newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg, with which ( now a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt ) it became part of Bavaria in 1814. The construction of the Ludwigs- west railway, today: Main- Spessart -Bahn, 1854 in Spessart went into operation, put industrialization and mining a larger scale. For this purpose, the extraction of barite counted ( barite ), which was mined from 1840 finally 14 pits. In 1948, the mining was stopped after the engine house of the last still operating well ( Marie Schacht ) was destroyed by a lightning strike. 1939 and in the 1980s produced the shoe factory Schantz at a site near the railway station; the buildings are still standing.

The history of the site is displayed in the " European Cultural Partenstein ".

Religions

Due to the influence of the first Lutheran, Reformed from 1597 county of Hanau - Miinzenberg Partenstein is still one of the few predominantly Protestant communities in the Bavarian Spessart.

Population Development

Policy

Community partnership

Partner community is Thise in France.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy, agriculture and forestry

It was in 1998 according to official statistics in manufacturing and 167 in trade and transport, no social insurance contributions at the workplace. In other areas, were employed to social security at the workplace 90 people. Social insurance contributions at residence, there were a total of 1090th In the manufacturing sector, there were 12 farms in construction enterprises 4. In addition, in 1999, there were 12 farms with an agricultural area of ​​81 ha, of which 3 hectares of arable land and 79 hectares of meadowland.

Education and Culture

Educational institutions

There are the following facilities (as of 1999):

• Kindergartens: 100 kindergarten places with 90 children
• Elementary schools: 1 with 8 teachers and 153 students

Attractions

• Protestant parish church, built in 1830 /31, according to plans by Johann Philipp Matt Lener, a pupil of Friedrich Weinbrenner.
• Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist, built in 1836 in line with the Protestant church, presumably also by design Philipp Matt Leners.
• Ruins of the castle of the Counts of Rieneck, after the destruction of 1633 was the end of the 20th century only a 20 m high wall remaining available until still ongoing excavations began and Mauersanierungen.
• The newly designed war memorial and also redesigned Fountain Garden
• Local museum " Ahler stuff "
• Circular route to the facilities of the former Schwerspatabbaus in Schnepfental: A Sandsteinplattenweg on which the wheel tracks of the barite - transport carts are still clearly seen, leads to the so-called " bunker " ( place of loading, running from 1946 to 1948 ); Here end the track on which the material was brought down from the higher-lying Erich stollen by Loren. Mouth hole, Loren track and shelter ( information boards; system restored in 1992 ) are the preserved relics of this transport tunnel, in 1922 from the above lying Marie Schacht (formerly Eric Schacht, created in 1904 ) was drilled. From this Marie Schacht, who had a winding tower, nacelle and workshop, a few foundations are still visible. The Dokumentationsweg via the Hirtleswiese where the barite was washed before 1922 ( wide view over the town and castle ) to the starting point.
• Transition from three mills on Lohrbach two buildings have been preserved.. The Lower Mill only a memorial plaque with a reference to the owner of 1825 The Middle Mill - a timber-framed building at the bridge below the castle - is privately owned; here is also a plaque from sandstone fitted with a reference to a miller John of 1824 The Upper Mill -. likewise a restored timbered building in private ownership - can be dated to the 16th century. She was originally a grain mill, but was then converted to a Schwerspatmühle. Here, the barite was washed after 1922, when there was the Erich tunnel and thus shortened connecting the valley. After 1948, the mill was so far no function. The mill wheel was removed late 50s, rebuilt in 2011 as an innovative small power plant.

Monuments

→ List of monuments in Partenstein

Clubs

Currently, there are 50 clubs in Partenstein. In the national league north as the TSV Partenstein plays ( handball).