Großwallstadt

Großwallstadt is a community in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany.GeographyLocationGroßwallstadt lies in the Bavarian Lower Main Region. The community has only the Gemarkung of Großwallstadt.HistoryAs part of the Archbishopric of Mainz, Großwallstadt passed at Secularization in 1803 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 Bavaria.Population developmentWithin town limits, 3,011 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 3,345 in 1987 and in 2005 4,091.PoliticsThe mayor is Roland Eppig . In 2008 he succeeded Reinhold Köhler . Municipal taxes in 1999 amounted to €3,222,000, of which net business taxes amounted to €1,522,000.Coat of armsThe community’s arms might be described thus: Gules a crown with two arches pearled ensigned with a cross Or, the whole surmounted by the letter W argent.Although the example in this article appears purple (which would be “purpure” in English heraldry), the German blazon clearly states In Rot… (that is, “In red…”). Hence, the word “gules” has been used above.The arms come from an emblem from 1755 that was on the parish church’s façade. The crown and the W refer to the community’s former names of Königswallstadt (“King’s Wallstadt”) and Wallstadt Regis (the same, regis being the Latin genitive of rex – “king”). The tinctures argent and gules (silver and red) refer to the community’s feudal overlord, the Archbishopric of Mainz.