page_title: Franconia
section_title: Geology
hierarchical_section_title: Franconia / Geography / Geology
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: ehem. Kupfertagebau "Grube Wilhelmine" in Sommerkahl bei Aschaffenburg, Deutschland - Tagebauwand mit Verfärbungen durch Malachit und Azurit
context_page_description: Franconia is a region in Germany, characterised by its culture and language, and may be roughly associated with the areas in which the East Franconian dialect group, colloquially referred to as "Franconian", is spoken. There are several other Franconian dialects, but only the East Franconian ones are colloquially referred to as "Franconian".
  "Core Franconia" is constituted by the three administrative regions of Lower, Middle, and Upper Franconia of the state of Bavaria. Also part of the cultural region of Franconia are the adjacent Franconian-speaking regions of the otherwise Thuringian and Upper Saxon-speaking state of Thuringia, the Franconian-speaking parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in the state of Baden-Württemberg, and small parts of the state of Hesse.
  Those parts of the region of Vogtland lying in the state of Saxony are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland, however, mostly do not consider themselves as "Franconian". On the other hand, the inhabitants of the Hessian-speaking parts of Lower Franconia west of the Spessart mountains do consider themselves as "Franconian".
caption: Opened-up, copper-ore-bearing, Spessart crystalline rock in Sommerkahl near Aschaffenburg
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