Gräfendorf

Gräfendorf is a community in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (Administrative Community) of Gemünden am Main.GeographyLocationGräfendorf lies in the Würzburg Region near Gemünden am Main.Constituent communitiesThe community has the following Gemarkungen and Ortsteile: Gräfendorf, Michelau an der Saale, Schonderfeld, Weickersgrüben, Wolfsmünster.HistoryIn Gräfendorf the Barons of Thüngen and the Juliusspital in Würzburg – a hospital foundation that still exists today – shared the lordship. The latter’s rights passed under the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803 to Bavaria, and in 1805 to the Grand Duchy of Aschaffenburg. The former’s rights were traded by Aschaffenburg in 1808, after mediatization, to the Grand Duchy. In 1813, the community became definitively Bavarian. 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, 1,729 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 1,452 in 1987, 1,554 in 2000 and in 2006 1,601.PoliticsThe mayor is Alfred Frank . Municipal taxes in 1999 amounted to €576,000, of which net business taxes amounted to €71,000.