Bessenbach

Bessenbach
Coat of arms of Bessenbach Coat of arms
Bessenbach
Location of Bessenbach within Aschaffenburg district 250px
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Unterfranken
District	Aschaffenburg
Government
• Mayor	Franz Straub (CSU)
Area
• Total	29.99 km2 (11.58 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	5,756
• Density	190/km2 (500/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	63856
Dialling codes	06095
Vehicle registration	AB
Website	www.bessenbach.de

Bessenbach is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.

Geography

Location

File:Gemeinde Bessenbach.PNG

Constituent communities

Bessenbach lies southeast of the town of Aschaffenburg among the Spessart range's outlying hills.

Subdivision

Bessenbach's Ortsteile are Beetacker, Frauengrund, Gemeindezentrum, Keilberg, Klingerhof, Klingermühle, Oberbessenbach, Steiger, Straßbessenbach, Unterbessenbach, Waldmichelbach and Weiler.

History

The community was formed on 1 January 1972 through the merger of the communities of Keilberg and Straßbessenbach. In 1978, the community of Oberbessenbach followed.

Governance

Community council

The council is made up of 20 council members.

	CSU	SPD	Total
2008	14	6	20 seats

(as at municipal election held on 2 March 2008)

Mayor

On 2 March 2008, Franz Straub (CSU) was elected mayor for the second time with 63.3% of the vote.

Coat of arms

The community's arms might be described thus: Azure a stork argent armed gules with two heads, the sinister reguardant, in base a fess wavy of the second.

The formerly self-administering communities of Keilberg, Straßbessenbach and Oberbessenbach merged into a greater community in 1978, taking on the historical name of Bessenbach once again.

The local noble family, also called Bessenbach, were instrumental in the community's development. Their ancestral seat, a castle, stood in today's centre of Keilberg. The family's existence is documented as far back as the 12th century. They had lordly and juridical rights throughout the Bessenbach valley that they alienated in the late 13th century. The family arms – the two-headed stork – were later adopted as the charge in the community's arms. Standing for the Bessenbach, the brook that serves as the geographical link in the community named after it, is the wavy fess in the base of the escutcheon.

These arms have been borne since 28 November 1977.

Town twinning

• Dury, Somme, France
• Saint-Fuscien, Somme, France
• Sains-en-Amiénois, Somme, France

This is one partnership that Bessenbach has maintained with all three French communes since 1985.

Infrastructure

Transport

The community is served by various bus lines of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft am Bayerischen Untermain ("Transport Association of the Bavarian Lower Main") from the main railway station in Aschaffenburg.

Moreover, Bessenbach lies right on the A 3 interchange Bessenbach/Waldaschaff and near the Spessart service centre near Rohrbrunn.

Sports

The Ortsteil of Straßbessenbach has been host to the German Sidecarcross Grand Prix numerous times.

External links

• Community’s official webpage (German)