Rüdenau

Rüdenau is a municipality in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (Administrative Community) of Kleinheubach.GeographyLocationRüdenau lies in the Bavarian Lower Main Region.The municipality has only the Gemarkung of Rüdenau.HistoryOn 3 May 1285, the knight Wipert Rüd von Rüdenau donated tithe income in Gönz and Weckbach to the Amorbach Monastery. At this time, then, the village was already in being, and it stayed in the Rüd family’s hands until 1635; during this time, they had the valley cleared and vineyards planted.The Electoral Mainz Amt was assigned in the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to the Princes of Leiningen, was mediatized in 1806 by Baden, and in 1810 was ceded to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. In the Hesse-Bavaria Rezeß (Frankfurt 1816), it finally passed to Bavaria.Population developmentThe figures up to 1950 are drawn from the local chronicle. The 1900 figure is estimated.PoliticsThe mayor is Udo Käsmann . He succeeded Ludwig Heilmann in 2002.Municipal taxes in 1999 amounted to €333,000, of which net business taxes amounted to €27,000.