Karsbach

Karsbach 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.GeographyLocationKarsbach lies in the Würzburg Region. The community has the following Ortsteile and Gemarkungen (traditional rural cadastral areas): Heßdorf, Höllrich, Karsbach, Weyersfeld.HistoryIn the course of Secularization in 1803, the rights of the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg in the community, and those held by the Juliusspital, passed to Bavaria, which under the terms of the Peace of Pressburg in 1805 it ceded to the newly formed Grand Duchy of Würzburg. In 1814 the community passed along with this back to Bavaria in 1814. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current community came into being with the Gemeindeedikt (“Municipal Edict”) of 1818.The Jewish families living in the outlying centre of Heßdorf built their synagogue at Fußgasse 6, but it was destroyed on Kristallnacht (9 November 1938). A plaque at the community chancellery at Höllriederstraße and Brunnengasse recalls this event.