Eichenbühl

Eichenbühl is a community in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.GeographyLocationEichenbühl lies in the Bavarian Lower Main Region.Constituent communitiesEichenbühl’s Ortsteile are Eichenbühl, Guggenberg, Heppdiel, Pfohlbach, Riedern and Windischbuchen.HistoryFrom the outlying centre of Riedern came the like-named noble family of Riedern whose armorial bearing was a red pot, which is still a charge in the community’s coat of arms today. The community in the Archbishopric of Mainz was awarded in the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to the Principality of Leiningen, then mediatized by Baden, and in 1810 ceded to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. In the Hesse-Bavaria Rezeß in Frankfurt in 1816, it finally passed to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current community came into being with the Gemeindeedikt (“Municipal Edict”) of 1818.Population developmentWithin town limits, 2,553 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 2,680 in 1987, in 2000 2,809 and in 2013 2,572.PoliticsCommunity councilThe mayor is Günther Winkler (CSU).