Altenbuch

Altenbuch
Coat of arms
Altenbuch
Location of Altenbuch within Miltenberg district
Coordinates: 49°50′N 9°25′E / 49.833°N 9.417°E / 49.833; 9.417Coordinates: 49°50′N 9°25′E / 49.833°N 9.417°E / 49.833; 9.417
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Lower Franconia
District	Miltenberg
Municipal assoc.	Stadtprozelten
Area
• Total	37.79 km2 (14.59 sq mi)
Elevation	240 m (790 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,242
• Density	33/km2 (85/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	97901
Dialling codes	09392
Vehicle registration	MIL
Website	www.altenbuch.de

Altenbuch is a community in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (municipal association) of Stadtprozelten. Altenbuch has around 1,200 inhabitants.

Altenbuch lies in the Bavarian Lower Main (Bayerischer Untermain) region in the Spessart (range).

The community has the following Gemarkungen (traditional rural cadastral areas): Altenbucher Forst, Oberaltenbuch, Unteraltenbuch, Altenbucher Leibstuhl.

Oberaltenbuch (formerly belonging to the Grünau Charterhouse) was mediatized in 1806 into the Principality of Aschaffenburg. Unteraltenbuch (belonging to Electoral Mainz) passed in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to Prince Primate von Dalberg’s Principality of Aschaffenburg. After the Treaties of Paris in 1814, Oberaltenbuch and Unteraltenbuch belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the communities of Oberaltenbuch and Unteraltenbuch came into being with the Gemeindeedikt ("Municipal Edict") of 1818.

On 1 April 1938, the two communities were merged into the one community of Altenbuch.

Altenbuch formerly belonged to the Catholic parish of Dorfprozelten and only became a parish in its own right about 1760. Saint Wolfgang’s Church was built in 1770 in the Baroque style and was converted and expanded several times.