Kleinostheim

Kleinostheim
Coat of arms
Kleinostheim
Location of Kleinostheim within Aschaffenburg district
Coordinates: 50°0′N 9°4′E / 50.000°N 9.067°E / 50.000; 9.067Coordinates: 50°0′N 9°4′E / 50.000°N 9.067°E / 50.000; 9.067
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Unterfranken
District	Aschaffenburg
Government
• Mayor	Hubert Kammerlander
Area
• Total	13.89 km2 (5.36 sq mi)
Elevation	114 m (374 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	8,218
• Density	590/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	63801
Dialling codes	06027
Vehicle registration	AB
Website	www.kleinostheim.de

Kleinostheim is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.

The community of Kleinostheim is about 40 kilometers east southeast of Frankfurt am Main about a half hour drive from it. Kleinostheim lies upstream from Frankfurt on the Main river. It is at the western edge of the Spessart range near Aschaffenburg. Like the nearby city of Mainz to the west, the 50th parallel north goes through the community.

Kleinostheim’s four Ortsteile are Kleinostheim, Waldstadt, Industriegebiet West and Wingert.

Owing to the favourable transport connections over an important north-south railway link and the Autobahnen A 3 and A 45, and because it lies on the Rhine-Danube waterway and in the middle of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region, the community offers many advantages as a location. Kleinostheim benefits from lying near prosperous cities such as Frankfurt, Offenbach and Aschaffenburg by serving as a commuter town. Since the 1960s, the community’s population has more than doubled from 4,000 to over 8,000.

Kleinostheim was most likely founded in the 6th century as Ossenheim by the Franks, and in 975, it had its first documentary mention. For almost a thousand years it was ecclesiastically and politically tightly bound with Saints Peter’s and Alexander’s Monastery in Aschaffenburg.