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Großostheim | |
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Location of Großostheim within Aschaffenburg district  | |
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  Großostheim  Großostheim | |
| Coordinates:49°55′N9°5′E / 49.917°N 9.083°E /49.917; 9.083 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Unterfranken |
| District | Aschaffenburg |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–26) | Herbert Jakob[1] (CSU) |
| Area | |
• Total | 44.31 km2 (17.11 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 137 m (449 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 16,388 |
| • Density | 369.8/km2 (957.9/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 63762 |
| Dialling codes | 06026 |
| Vehicle registration | AB |
| Website | www.grossostheim.de |
Großostheim (orGrossostheim) is a market municipality in theAschaffenburg district in theRegierungsbezirk ofLower Franconia (Unterfranken) inBavaria, Germany. The inhabitants call themselvesAistmer (ostheimers).
Großostheim lies on the northeast edge of theOdenwald in the Bavarian Lower Main (Bayerischer Untermain) region.
Großostheim'sGemeindeteile are Großostheim, Pflaumheim, Wenigumstadt and Ringheim.
Clockwise from the north, these are the municipality ofStockstadt, the district-free town ofAschaffenburg, the municipality ofNiedernberg, the municipality ofMömlingen (both inMiltenberg district) and the municipality ofSchaafheim (Darmstadt-Dieburg).
Together with Stockstadt am Main and the neighbouring Hessian municipality of Schaafheim, the market municipality forms the historic Bachgau region.
The market municipality of Großostheim, as a greater municipality, is made up of theGemeindeteile of Großostheim, Ringheim, Pflaumheim and Wenigumstadt. While Ringheim has always been part of Großostheim, the other two places, Pflaumheim and Wenigumstadt, have only been as much since municipal reform on 1 May 1978.
Ostheim, called Großostheim since the 18th century –groß isGerman for “great” or “big” – had its first documentary mention in a document from theFulda Abbey dating from sometime between 780 and 799.
Ostheim belonged from the time of its first documentary mention to various lordly domains, before it passed along with the whole Bachgau to theElectorate of Mainz.
TheGemeindeteil of Ringheim gets its name from an older village that died out in the early 16th century. TheRingheimer Mühle – a mill, formerly an inn and a farmhouse – seems to be the last piece of property from the old Ringheim. The new Ringheim arose after 1945 on the lands of the formerLuftwaffe base, in whose barracks and other buildingsGermans driven out of their homelands were housed. Quick growth with industries locating in the new settlement has made of the initially smallGemeindeteil a considerable settlement today, which has become a desirable place to live.
TheGemeindeteil of Pflaumheim, despite lying right near the significant centre of Ostheim, had always been an independent municipality. It did, however, belong ecclesiastically as a branch parish to the parish of St. Peter and Paul in Großostheim. Only in 1923 did Pflaumheim, with itsKirche St. Luzia (church) become an independent parish. In 1994, Pflaumheim's 1,200-year jubilee was celebrated, as in 794 the Pflaumgau, and in the same era Pflaumheim itself, were named in documents handed down from theLorsch andFulda Abbeys.
TheGemeindeteil of Wenigumstadt had its first documentary mention in 1229 asvilla Omestad minore. The village had, however, surely been settled much earlier, as the manyarchaeological finds from Wenigumstadt show a human presence from every cultural epoch in the last 7,000 years.
The former (until 1782)Electoral MainzVogteiamt (Vogt district) became in 1803 part of Archbishop-Elector of MainzKarl von Dalberg's newly formed Electorate of Aschaffenburg, along with which, under the terms of the Treaties of Paris, it passed in 1814 (by this time it had become a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt) to Bavaria.
In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current municipality came into being with theGemeindeedikt (“Municipal Edict”) of 1818.
Within the municipal area lived 12,788 inhabitants in 1970, 13,514 in 1987, 15,913 in 2000 and 16,299 in 2004.
The mayor is Herbert Jakob (CSU), elected in April 2014 and re-elected in 2020.
The income from municipal taxes in 1999 amounted to €9,751,000 (converted) of which net intake from business taxes amounted to €3,180,000.
The municipality'sarms might be described thus: Party per fess Or and sable, a buck salient of the second langued gules and couped at the thigh, and three trefoils slipped argent.
Until the 18th century, Großostheim was known simply as Ostheim. It was in 1774 that the name Großostheim first cropped up. The coat of arms, conferred on 17 January 1911 byPrince Regent Luitpold and borne ever since, is a combination of the 17th-century municipality seal, which is no longer on hand, and a smaller version of the arms borne by the family Schad, whose members called themselves Schad von Ostheim. The family died out in 1581, after having lived for centuries in the Bachgau, to whosetithing district the municipality of Ostheim then belonged. The cloverleaves below theparting was a popular, old local symbol foragriculture. They are taken from the lost Großostheim municipality seal and refer to how, in the course of time, clover growing displacedwinegrowing.
According to official statistics, in 1998, there were 85 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working inagriculture andforestry. In producing businesses this was 2,427, and in trade andtransport 1,067. In other areas, 910 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls are employed, and 5,627 areremote workers. There were 9 processing businesses. Fourteen businesses are in construction, and furthermore, in 1999, there were 84 agricultural operations with a working area of 2 656 ha, of which 2 428 ha was cropland and 193 ha was meadowland. There are a brewery and several winegrowing operations here.
The best known firm in the municipality was the European head office ofNintendo before its closure and relocation toFrankfurt in 2015. Also, the meat processing business Salomon Foodworld is resident here.
Großostheim lies onBundesstraßen 469 and 26 nearAutobahnA 3. In theGemeindeteil of Ringheim lies a regional airport. Großostheim once had passenger train service, but unfortunately that service ended in 1974 with the closing of the Bachgau railway line. The nearest major railway station is theAschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof. Bus service to nearby towns, includingAschaffenburg, is available.
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