page_title: Kahl am Main
section_title: Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Kahl am Main / Culture and sightseeing / Buildings
caption_attribution_description: Oldest framework building (17th century) at Kahl, near Aschaffenburg, Bavaria/Germany
context_page_description: Kahl am Main is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany. It has around 7,500 inhabitants.
context_section_description: Baroque Schloss Emmerichshofen, built in 1768 by Baron von Bentzel-Sternau.
  Saint Margaret's Catholic parish church (Katholische Pfarrkirche Sankt Margareta) in Baroque Revival style, made of red quarried Buntsandstein. A church was first mentioned at this site in 1330.
  Evangelical Cross Church (Evangelische Kreuzkirche) in Bauhaus style.
  Town hall: former customs house, built in 1830 in Neoclassical style, after 1834 a match and cigarette factory, after that an inn, weather station and school, since 1939 the community administration's seat.
  Watertower, built in 1931.
  Bakehouse (Backes): public oven, in which until 1938 bread was baked for almost 300 years. Today it is one of the oldest constructions of the city.
  Timber-frame house (former estate), known to have stood before the Thirty Years' War; later a house and an inn; damaged by improper drain restoration.
  Sand Hare Monument (Sandhasendenkmal): Kahl landmark of the former sand quarrying in the region, built in 1952 by Hermann Kröckel. The sand hare is also a charge in the community's arms.
  Mills on the Kahl: Once, eleven mills were running on the lower three kilometres of the Kahlgrund upstream from where the Kahl empties into the Main. The first was mentioned in 1358. Ground were grain, mustard seed and oilseed. “Sand mills” played a rôle beginning about 1900. In one of the fulling mills with 15 workers, Nikolaus Wahl brought the world's first automatic feltmaking machine into service in 1904. At the beginning of the 21st century, only a few mills bear witness to that time, and some have been converted to houses: Obere Fallersmühle, Untere Fallersmühle (rolling mill), Schäfereimühle, Lohmühle, Nassmühle. Since the millers often backed the water up too high, there were time and again floods. In particular, the Nassmühle (literally, “Wet Mill”) came to grief one day in the late 16th century when local farmers, angered at having their harvest wiped out by flooding, stormed the mill on 2 June 1573 and destroyed it. A hiking path with documentary plaques follows the historic mill route.
caption: Timber-frame house (17th century)
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