Großostheim

Großostheim
Coat of arms
Großostheim
Location of Großostheim within Aschaffenburg district
Coordinates: 49°55′N 9°5′E / 49.917°N 9.083°E / 49.917; 9.083Coordinates: 49°55′N 9°5′E / 49.917°N 9.083°E / 49.917; 9.083
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Unterfranken
District	Aschaffenburg
Government
• Mayor	Hans Klug (CSU)
Area
• Total	44.31 km2 (17.11 sq mi)
Elevation	137 m (449 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	16,372
• Density	370/km2 (960/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	63762
Dialling codes	06026
Vehicle registration	AB
Website	www.grossostheim.de

Großostheim (or Grossostheim) is a market community in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany. The inhabitants call themselves Aistmer.

Großostheim lies on the northeast edge of the Odenwald in the Bavarian Lower Main (Bayerischer Untermain) region.

Großostheim’s Ortsteile are Großostheim, Pflaumheim, Wenigumstadt and Ringheim.

Clockwise from the north, these are the community of , the district-free town of Aschaffenburg, the community of Niedernberg, the community of Mömlingen (both in Miltenberg district) and the community of Schaafheim (Darmstadt-Dieburg).

Together with Stockstadt am Main and the neighbouring Hessian community of Schaafheim, the market community forms the historic Bachgau region.

The market community of Großostheim, as a greater community, is made up of the constituent communities of Großostheim, Ringheim, Pflaumheim and Wenigumstadt. While Ringheim has always been part of Großostheim, the other two places, Pflaumheim and Wenigumstadt, have only been as much since municipal reform on 1 May 1978.

Ostheim, called Großostheim since the 18th century – groß is German for “great” or “big” – had its first documentary mention in a document from the Fulda Abbey dating from sometime between 780 and 799.

Ostheim belonged from the time of its first documentary mention to various lordly domains, before it passed along with the whole Bachgau to the Electorate of Mainz.

The constituent community of Ringheim gets its name from an older village that died out in the early 16th century. The Ringheimer Mühle – a mill, formerly an inn and a farmhouse – seems to be the last piece of property from the old Ringheim. The new Ringheim arose after 1945 on the lands of the former Luftwaffe base, in whose barracks and other buildings Germans driven out of their homelands were housed. Quick growth with industries locating in the new settlement has made of the initially small constituent community a considerable settlement today, which has become a desirable place to live.