Elsenfeld

Elsenfeld is a market community in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.

The community has the following Gemarkungen (traditional rural cadastral areas): Eichelsbach, Elsenfeld, Rück, Schippach and Himmelthal (formerly a monastery estate).

This is witnessed by Linear Pottery culture (Bronze Age) burial finds near Eichelsbach and Rück-Schippach.

Rück came to light for the first time about 1270 in the so-called Mainzer Heberolle ("Mainz Levy Roll" – a taxation document).

Until the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, the community's development was tightly bound to Klingenberg castle, town, court, Amt and stewardship holdings.

In 1804, Elsenfeld passed to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt and was transferred into the ownership if the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814.

Eichelsbach and the remaining Himmelthal monastic landholdings were delivered from serfdom and socage.

According to official statistics, there were 999 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in producing businesses in 1998.

In the outlying centre of Rück lies a winegrowing area for Frankenwein with the appellation Rücker Schalk.

Although the industrial park bears the name Obernburg, and this is also the postal address, it lies exclusively within the communities of Erlenbach am Main and Elsenfeld.

Council seats are apportioned thus: The community's arms might be described thus: Per pale, dexter gules a wheel spoked of six, in base a bend wavy argent, sinister of the second a mount, thereon an alder tree vert.

A sunroom with access to the leisure area and to the sunbathing field is inviting to those who want to unwind.

In the former diving basin, a skating facility with a halfpipe, a 450 m2 wetland biotope, an integrated festival square with a bowls area, a badminton and streetball court, table tennis tables, big chessboards, a music pavilion and in the former wading pool a water and adventure playground for children up to ten years old were built.

Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg (district) Main-Spessart Hohe Wart (unincorporated area) Forstwald Hohe Berg Collenberg Dorfprozelten Altenbuch Wörth am Main Weilbach Sulzbach am Main Stadtprozelten Schneeberg Rüdenau Röllbach Obernburg Niedernberg Neunkirchen Mönchberg Mömlingen Miltenberg Leidersbach Laudenbach Klingenberg am Main Kleinwallstadt Kleinheubach Kirchzell Hausen Großwallstadt Großheubach Faulbach Eschau Erlenbach am Main Elsenfeld Eichenbühl Bürgstadt Amorbach Amorbach Hesse Baden-Württemberg
The Elsava between Rück (left) and Schippach (right)
Rück-Schippach with the Rücker Schalk winegrowing area
Industrie Center Obernburg
Town hall
Civic centre
Himmelthal monastery
The signage along the Franconian Red Wine Hiking Path
Coat of Arms of Miltenberg district
Coat of Arms of Miltenberg district