Heigenbrücken

Heigenbrücken is a municipality in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany, and seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (municipal association) of Heigenbrücken. It has a population of around 2,288.

Geography

Location
Heigenbrücken is in the Bavarian Lower Main (Bayerischer Untermain) in the middle of the Spessart (range).

Constituent communities
Heigenbrücken has one outlying Ortsteil, Jakobsthal, is about 5 km away from the main town.

Demographics
The municipal area had 2,330 inhabitants in 1970, 2,332 in 1987 and 2,499 in 2000.

Religion
 Catholic: 1,961
 Evangelical: 255
 other: 376
(as at 1 January 2005)

Economy
The municipal tax revenue in 1999 amounted to €935,000.

Governance
Community council

The council is made up of 15 council members, counting the mayor.
  CSU  SPD  Freie Wähler Heigenbrücken-Jakobsthal  Total 2008  6  6  3  15 seats
(as at municipal election held on 2 March 2008)

Mayor
The mayor is Jochen Drechsler, elected in 2020.

Education
The following institutions are to be found in Heigenbrücken (as at 1999):
Kindergartens: 100 kindergarten places with 79 children.
Elementary school: 1 with 17 teachers and 312 pupils.

References

Other websites

 Community’s official webpage 

Category:Aschaffenburg (district)