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Capital: Würzburg
Area:8,531.59 Km&2
Inhabitants:1,344,629''(12/2004)''
Pop. Density :157,61 inh./km&2
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Lower Franconia ( German ''Unterfranken'') is one of the three Administrative Region s 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 unter the name of ''Untermainkreis'' (Lower Main District) and renamed in 1837 as ''Unterfranken and 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").


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HISTORICAL COUNTRY DISTRICTS


Until the municipal reform ( "Kreisreform" ) in June 1972 Lower Franconia had 22 country districts,
16 of them were attached to the other six existing country districts
Aschaffenburg, Bad Kissingen, Kitzingen, Miltenberg, Schweinfurt, Würzburg
or united to one of the three new country districts Haßberge, Main-Spessart, Rhön-Grabfeld.

Old country district Now part of the country district(s)
Alzenau .............. Aschaffenburg
Bad Brückenau ........ Bad Kissingen
Bad Neustadt/Saale.... Rhön-Grabfeld
Ebern ................ Haßberge
Gemünden ............. Main-Spessart
Gerolzhofen .......... Schweinfurt, Kitzingen, Hassberge, Würzburg
Hammelburg ........... Bad Kissingen
Haßfurt .............. Haßberge
Hofheim/Unterfranken . Haßberge
Karlstadt ............ Main-Spessart
Königshofen .......... Rhön-Grabfeld
Lohr ................. Main-Spessart
Marktheidenfeld ...... Main-Spessart, Miltenberg, Würzburg
Mellrichstadt ........ Rhön-Grabfeld
Obernburg ............ Miltenberg
Ochsenfurt ........... Würzburg


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