Urspringen
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Urspringen | |
|---|---|
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Urspringen within Main-Spessart district  | |
  Urspringen  Urspringen | |
| Coordinates: 49°54′N 9°40′E / 49.900°N 9.667°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Unterfranken |
| District | Main-Spessart |
| Municipal assoc. | Marktheidenfeld |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–26) | Volker Hemrich[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 17.99 km2 (6.95 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 345 m (1,132 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 245 m (804 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 1,420 |
| • Density | 79/km2 (200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 97857 |
| Dialling codes | 09396 |
| Vehicle registration | MSP |
| Website | www.urspringen.de |
Urspringen is a municipality in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (Administrative Community) of Marktheidenfeld.
Location
Urspringen lies in the Würzburg Region.
The community has only the Gemarkung (traditional rural cadastral area) of Urspringen.
History
The former Amt of the County of Castell passed after mediatization in 1806 and border adjustments in 1810 to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg, with which it passed in 1814 to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current community came into being with the Gemeindeedikt (“Municipal Edict”) of 1818.
Population development
Within town limits, 1,168 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 1,160 in 1987 and in 2015 1,344.
Politics
Mayor: since 2014 Volker Hemrich.[1]
Municipal taxes in 1999 amounted to €615,000 (converted), of which net business taxes amounted to €150,000.
Coat of arms
The community's arms might be described thus: Gules a pallet wavy argent, dexter a ram's attire of the same, sinister quarterly of the first and second.
The wavy pallet (narrow vertical stripe) is canting for the community's name as it represents a brook's source, or “origin” (Ursprung in German). About 1730, the Counts of Castell held the Vogtei over Urspringen with which the Voit von Rieneck family was enfeoffed. Recalling this are the quartering on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side, which was the arms borne by the Counts of Castell, and the ram's horn on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side from those borne by the Voit von Rieneck family.
The arms have been borne since 1970.[3]
