Frammersbach
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Frammersbach ( ) is a market municipality in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany. In the early modern period, people from Frammersbach achieved international renown as drivers of wagons on the most important trans-European trade routes. Today, Frammersbach has a population of around 4,500.
Frammersbach ( ) is a market municipality in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany. In the early modern period, people from Frammersbach achieved international renown as drivers of wagons on the most important trans-European trade routes. Today, Frammersbach has a population of around 4,500.
Subdivisions
The community has the following Gemarkungen (traditional rural cadastral areas): Frammersbach and Habichsthal. These are also Frammersbach's two Ortsteile (boroughs). The former villages Herbertshain, Hofreith and Schwartel have been absorbed into Frammersbach proper.
Neighbouring communities
The neighbouring communities are from the north, clockwise: Flörsbachtal (Hesse), the unincorporated areas and Frammersbacher Forst, Partenstein, (unincorporated area), Wiesthal, Heinrichsthaler Forst (unincorporated area), again Frammersbacher Forst and finally Wiesen.
Economy
The market community of Frammersbach has grown into a commercial centre and has regional supply functions for the community of Partenstein lying to the south and the community of Flörsbachtal lying to the north, just across the boundary in Hesse as well as the community of Jossgrund. The feeder area of the lesser centre of Frammersbach is home to roughly 18,500 inhabitants1. Frammersbach lies on the Partenstein-Frammersbach-Wiesen-Aschaffenburg regional development axis.
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Government
Twin towns – sister cities
Orbec, France, since 1988 Mecseknádasd, Hungary, since 2003 The latter place is home to descendants of emigrants from Frammersbach who still speak a dialect of German rather like the one spoken in Frammersbach. Jáchymov, Czech Republic This is a sponsorship arrangement initiated on 14 May 1977 by former citizens from St. Joachimsthal's (now called Jáchymov) outlying centre of Dürnberg (now called Suchá) who after being driven out of their old homeland came to live in Frammersbach. Both regions were protected forests (Bannwälder) where one could settle only on the edges. In both areas was an Eselsweg (“ass’s way”) and in each was a village with a greater than average number of people working in goods transport, Frammersbach in the Spessart and Reischdorf (now called Rusová) in the Ore Mountains.
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