Rechtenbach

Rechtenbach
Coat of arms
Rechtenbach
Location of Rechtenbach within Main-Spessart district
Coordinates: 49°59′N 9°30′E / 49.983°N 9.500°E / 49.983; 9.500Coordinates: 49°59′N 9°30′E / 49.983°N 9.500°E / 49.983; 9.500
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Unterfranken
District	Main-Spessart
Municipal assoc.	Lohr am Main
Government
• Mayor	Klaus Bartel (FW)
Area
• Total	2.09 km2 (0.81 sq mi)
Elevation	338-530 m (−1,401 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,003
• Density	480/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	97848
Dialling codes	09352
Vehicle registration	MSP
Website	www.rechtenbach-spessart.de

Rechtenbach is a community in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (municipal association) of Lohr am Main. It has a population of around 1,000.

Rechtenbach lies in der Würzburg Region in the Spessart (range) west of Lohr am Main. The village is located in the valley of the Rechtenbach (), a tributary of the Main. It is surrounded by forest.

The community has two Gemarkungen (traditional rural cadastral area): Rechtenbach and (since January 2014) Rothenberg. The latter was an unincorporated area until 2013.

Until the merger with Rothenberg, the municipal territory was not continuous as it included the village and the separate Weickertshöhe or Weickertswiese, a meadow located on a nearby hill at an altitude of around 500 m. In between the two used to be forest that was part of Rothenberg.

The municipal territory touches only on the community of Lohr. It also borders on two unincorporated areas, Partensteiner Forst () and Forst Lohrerstraße ().

On 18 August 1522, Rechtenbach had its first documentary mention in a document from Count Philipp of Rieneck. It was an early modern industrial centre where plate glass was made for the mirrors of the Lohr State Manufacturer until 1791. As part of the Archbishopric of Mainz, Rechtenbach passed with the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to the newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg, with which it passed in 1814 (by this time it had become a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt) to the Kingdom of Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current community came into being with the Gemeindeedikt ("Municipal Edict") of 1818.