Lower Franconia

Lower Franconia

Infobox German Regierungsbezirk
name = Lower Franconia
gname = Unterfranken


state = Bavaria
capital = Würzburg
area = 9531.59
population = 1337876
population_as_of = 31 Dec. 2006
dissolved =
url = [http://www.regierung.unterfranken.bayern.de regierung.unterfranken.bayern.de]

Lower Franconia ( _de. Unterfranken) is one of the three administrative regions of Franconia in Bavaria (seven regions), Germany (22 regions in five Federal States, 11 Federal States are not subdivided into regions).

The district was formed in 1817 under the name of "Untermainkreis" (Lower Main District) and renamed in 1837 as "Unterfranken und Aschaffenburg" (Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg). In 1933 the regional Nazi Gauleiter Otto Hellmuth insisted on renaming the district "Mainfranken", but after 1945 the name "Unterfranken" was resurrected.

Unterfranken is the north-west part of Franconia and consists of three district-free cities ("Kreisfreie Städte") and nine country districts ("Landkreise").

The major portion of the Franconian wine region is situated in Lower Franconia.

Area and population

Well known people

* Florian Geyer
* Tilman Riemenschneider
* Balthasar Neumann
* Friedrich Rückert
* Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
* Leonhard Frank
* Carl Diem
* Dirk Nowitzki

Institutes of Higher Education

* Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg
* [http://www.fh-aschaffenburg.de/index.php?id=222 Fachhochschule Aschaffenburg]
* [http://www.fh-wuerzburg.de/ Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt]

ee also

* Middle Franconia
* Upper Franconia

External links

* [http://www.unterfranken.de Official website]
* [http://www.regierung.unterfranken.bayern.de/englisch/17861/index.html Official website in English]
* [http://www.bezirk-unterfranken.de Official website]
* [http://flagspot.net/flags/de-by-uf.html Flag at Flagspot]
* [http://www.gemeindeverzeichnis.de/gem1900//gem1900.htm?unterfranken/unterfranken1900.htm Unterfranken 1910]
* [http://www.unterfranken-in-zahlen.de/ Statistics]
* [http://mein-franken.eu/towns-and-municipalities/lower-franconia.html?L=1 Lower Franconia, described by a native franc resident]


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