Ochsenfurt

Ochsenfurt
Townhall in Ochsenfurt
Ochsenfurt
Location of the town of Ochsenfurt within Würzburg district
Coordinates	49°39′N 10°04′E / 49.65°N 10.06667°E / 49.65; 10.06667Coordinates: 49°39′N 10°04′E / 49.65°N 10.06667°E / 49.65; 10.06667
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Lower Franconia
District	Würzburg
Town subdivisions	9 Stadtteile/Stadtbezirke
Mayor	Friedrich Rainer (CSU)
Basic statistics
Area	63.55 km2 (24.54 sq mi)
Elevation	187 m  (614 ft)
Population	11,223 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	177 /km2 (457 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	WÜ
Postal code	97199
Area code	09331
Website	www.ochsenfurt.de

Ochsenfurt is a town in the district of Würzburg, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the River Main, here crossed by a stone bridge, 13 miles south from Würzburg by the railway to Munich, and at the junction of a line to Röttingen. Pop. 11,600. Like Oxford, the town of Ochsenfurt is called after a ford where oxen crossed the river.

It contained in 1911 an Evangelical and five Roman Catholic churches, among them that of St Michael, a fine Gothic edifice. There is a considerable trade in wine and agricultural products, other industries being brewing and malting.

It was one of the places in Germany that King Richard I of England was detained in 1193 while the king was returning to England from the Third Crusade.^[2]

The premises of the former Carthusian monastery here, Tückelhausen Charterhouse, secularised in 1803 and largely converted for private residential use, contain a museum of Carthusian life. The monastery, dedicated to Saints Lambert, John the Baptist and George, was founded in 1138 by Otto I, Bishop of Bamberg, as a double canonry of the Premonstratensians. From 1351 it belonged to the Carthusians.

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Twin towns - Sister cities

Ochsenfurt is twinned with:

Ropczyce in Poland Wimborne in England Zábřeh in Czech Republic

Coutances in France Colditz in Germany

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
• Klöster in Bayern: Tückelhausen - Vom Prämonstratenserstift zum Kartäusermuseum (German)
• Website of the Diocese of Würzburg: the Carthusian Museum (German)

Bibliography

• Die Kunstdenkmäler von Unterfranken, Bd. 1: Bezirksamt Ochsenfurt. 2. Auflage 1983. ISBN 978-3-486-50455-2
• Halbleib, Volker; Kretzer, Heinz (2006). Ochsenfurt. Sutton. ISBN 9783866800007. http://books.google.com/books?id=YHvaAAAACAAJ. Retrieved 4 March 2010. 

Notes

1. ^ "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes" (in German). Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung. 31 December 2010. https://www.statistikdaten.bayern.de/genesis/online?language=de&sequenz=tabelleErgebnis&selectionname=12411-009r&sachmerkmal=QUASTI&sachschluessel=SQUART04&startjahr=2010&endjahr=2010. 
2. ^ Stacey, Robert C. "Walter, Hubert (d. 1205)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, 2004 Online Edition accessed November 8, 2007

Tradition local costumes in Ochsenfurt

Painting of Ochsenfurt - 1623

Alte Mainbrücke, after the post-WW II rebuilding