Kirchzell

Coat of arms

Kirchzell

Location of Kirchzell within Miltenberg district

Coordinates: 49°37′N 09°11′E / 49.617°N 9.183°ECoordinates: 49°37′N 09°11′E / 49.617°N 9.183°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Stefan Schwab (CSU)

Area

• Total

63.86 km² (24.66 sq mi)

Elevation

192 m (630 ft)

Population (2016-12-31)

• Total

2,224

• Density

35/km² (90/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

63931

09373

MIL

Website

www.kirchzell.de

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

This community in the Odenwald lies at the three-state common point shared by Bavaria, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg.

Kirchzell is the biggest municipality by land area in the Miltenberg district with a great deal of woodland, and it lies in the Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald. The area, whose geology is bunter-based, is drained by the Waldbach, Gabelbach and Mud into the Main.

Nearby towns include Amorbach, Erbach, Michelstadt, Miltenberg, Mudau and Walldürn.

Kirchzell’s Ortsteile are Breitenbach, Breitenbuch, Buch, Kirchzell, Ottorfszell, Preunschen and Watterbach.

Kirchzell is a community with a 1,200-year history. Kirchzell owes its founding and its name to the Benedictine abbey in Amorbach. In 1168, the Amorbach Abbey and thereby also Kirchzell ended up under the lordship of the Lords of Dürn. This princely family built Wildenberg Castle (Burg Wildenberg) upon the Preunschener Berg, a highlight in Staufer-era castle building. One hundred years later, the Lords of Dürn sold the Archbishop of Mainz their estates. In 1700, Kirchzell was granted market rights, as it was the middle point of the Kirchzeller Grund.

The Electoral Mainz Amt was assigned in the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to the Princes of Leiningen, later being mediatized by Baden in 1806 and then in 1810 ceded to the Hesse-Darmstadt. In the Hesse-Bavaria Rezess (Frankfurt 1816) it finally passed to Bavaria.

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