Karlstadt am Main

Karlstadt is a town in Main-Spessart in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany. It is the administrative centre of Main-Spessart (Kreisstadt), and has a population of around 15,000.

Geography
Karlstadt is on the River Main in Main-Spessart, about 25 km north of the city of Würzburg. It belongs to the Main-Franconian wine-growing region. The town itself is on the right edge of the river, but the municipal territory extends to the left edge.

Since the combinations in 1978, Karlstadt's Stadtteile have been Gambach, Heßlar, Karlburg, Karlstadt, Laudenbach, Mühlbach, Rohrbach, Stadelhofen, Stetten, and Wiesenfeld.

Notable people
 Johannes Schöner (b. 1477, d. 1547 in Nuremberg), mathematician, geographer, cartographer, astronomer, and astrologist
 Andreas Bodenstein (b. about 1482, d. 1541 in Basel), also named after his birthplace Karlstadt, or in Latinized form Carolstadius, reformer
  (b. about 1494, d. 1566 in Wittenberg), theologian, humanistic philosopher, and reformer
  (b. 1522, d. 1587 in Strasbourg), historian, poet, jurist, and official
 Johann Rudolph Glauber (b. 1604 in Karlstadt; d. 1670 in Amsterdam), apothecary and chemist
 Franz Sperr (b. 1878, d. 23 January 1945 executed in Berlin-Plötzensee), jurist and member of the Widerstand in the Third Reich
  (b. 1887, d. 1915 near Soldau in Masuria), painter
  (b. 1894 in Wiesenfeld-Erlenbach, d. 1971), writer, poet
 Ruth Westheimer (b. Karola Ruth Siegel and known as "Dr. Ruth," 4 June 1928 in Wiesenfeld), sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper; later, U.S. citizen.
  (b. 1948 in Aschaffenburg, d. 2007 in Karlstadt), carnevalist
 Roland Büchner (b. 1954), Regensburg cathedral choirmaster, conductor, leader of the Regensburger Domspatzen

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References

Other websites

 Town’s official webpage 


Category:Main-Spessart