Glattbach is a community in the Aschaffenburg district (landkreis) in the administrative region (regierungsbezirk) of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.

After many bad harvests, the vines were torn up in the late 18th century, and replaced with intensive fruit growing, specifically of cherries.

The endless sharing out of estates under Electoral Mainz inheritance law meant that the area of land available for each farmer to work was forever shrinking.

While only ten families shared the 310 ha municipal area in 1661, by the mid 18th century there were 50 neighbours (or Nachbarn, as residents were called, as opposed to those who had moved to the community and therefore neither owned land nor had rights) who had to eke out their lives from the soil.

The only major property, with 97 Morgen (somewhat less than 200 000 m2), was the herrschaftliches Höfchen (“Manorial Estate”), which passed to Kollegiatsstift St Peter und Alexander from noble ownership as a donation in 1334, later being bestowed by the stift upon various country noblemen.

Later still, it passed to the liege lord, the Elector of Mainz, and around 1837 it was sold into private ownership to the landed family Heeg.

About 1800, the old Hofreith was torn down, and across the road a major estate with an oil and tobacco mill and a wine press was built, today known as the Helmshof.

This may well have had something to do with the village's lying right near the town of Aschaffenburg, or perhaps it was the Gelnhäuser Straße, an old army and trade road running by Glattbach to the west, which led up to the Johannesberger Höhe (heights).

Bildstock – a cross-shaped or columnar pillar functioning as a wayside shrine), called Peststeine (“Plague stones”), on the main road.

In 1682, a chapel in Saint Nicholas's honour was built, and consecrated by the Capuchin priest Martin von Cochem, a famous repentance preacher and folk writer.

The first parish priest was Christian Benz from Weibersbrunn, who held the post for 25 years before he died in an accident on 20 December 1948.

Building work then began on today's Gothic Revival parish church, Maria Himmelfahrt (“Assumption of Mary”), which was consecrated on 15 August 1901.

Since 1986 it has served as the town hall, after the elementary school had moved to the new building auf dem Schwalbesgraben, one wing in 1958, and the other in 1964.

Fourteen people were killed in these raids, and more than a hundred buildings were utterly or partly destroyed, among them the kindergarten and the gymnasium.

Beginning then, Glattbach became a residential community with nearly 3,800 inhabitants, favoured by its proximity to the town and its scenically charming location.