Mömbris

Mömbris
Bridge over the Kahl at Mömbris with Market Square and Saint Cyriacus Church
Coat of arms
Mömbris
Location of Mömbris within Aschaffenburg district
Coordinates: 50°4′N 9°10′E / 50.067°N 9.167°E / 50.067; 9.167Coordinates: 50°4′N 9°10′E / 50.067°N 9.167°E / 50.067; 9.167
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Unterfranken
District	Aschaffenburg
Government
• Mayor	Felix Wissel (-)
Area
• Total	35.92 km2 (13.87 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	11,576
• Density	320/km2 (830/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	63776
Dialling codes	06029
Vehicle registration	AB, ALZ
Website	www.moembris.de

Mömbris is a community – since 31 January 1964 a market community – in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany. Mömbris is the district’s fifth biggest community.

Mömbris lies in the Bavarian Lower Main (Bayerischer Untermain) in the Kahlgrund halfway between Schöllkrippen and Alzenau, which are linked by Staatsstraße (State Road) 2305, at the foot of the Vorspessart (range) with its highest elevation, the Hahnenkamm at 437 m above sea level. The river Kahl flows through Mömbris.

Mömbris comprises all together 18 centres in an area of 35.92 km². The greater share (32.81 km²) is woods, meadows and cropland. The community lies between 165 and 337 m above sea level.

Mömbris’s Ortsteile are as follows:

Hesse pokes a tongue of its territory into the market community. In 2007, a territorial exchange involving roughly 10 hectares of land was undertaken between Hesse and Bavaria, whereby the latter shrank by 1.77 hectares.

Until this time, the state boundary ran right through the FV Viktoria 1930 e. V. Brücken (football club) clubhouse. Elsewhere, the boundary also cut through a short stretch of Staatsstraße 2305 – a road administered by Bavaria – in the outlying centre of Niedersteinbach, meaning that this Bavarian-owned road ran for a short distance through Hesse; this stretch of road came to be known as the Hessenkurve.

The Mömbris tithe court belonged until 1748, along with those of Alzenau and Hörstein and the free court to the Wilmundsheim vor der Hart (Alzenau) Markgenossenschaft (a kind of collective arrangement in which several villages jointly owned land resources). Free Märker (Markgenossenschaft dwellers) gathered every year in Alzenau to choose a Landrichter (judge) and foresters and to deal with important decisions.