Großostheim
Grossostheim (or Grossostheim) is a market town in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany. The inhabitants call themselves Aistmer (ostheimers).
Geography
Location
Grossostheim is on the northeast edge of the Odenwald in the Bavarian Lower Main (Bayerischer Untermain) region.
Constituent communities
Grossostheim's Ortsteile are Grossostheim, Pflaumheim, Wenigumstadt and Ringheim.
Neighbouring communities
Clockwise from the north, these are the community of Stockstadt, the district-free town of Aschaffenburg, the community of Niedernberg, the community of Momlingen (both in Miltenberg district) and the community of Schaafheim (Darmstadt-Dieburg).
Together with Stockstadt am Main and the neighbouring Hessian community of Schaafheim, the market community forms the historic Bachgau region.
Population development
Within the municipal area lived 12,788 inhabitants in 1970, 13,514 in 1987, 15,913 in 2000 and 16,299 in 2004.
Politics
The mayor is Herbert Jakob (CSU), elected in April 2014 and re-elected in 2020.
The income from municipal taxes in 1999 amounted to EUR9,751,000 (converted) of which net intake from business taxes amounted to EUR3,180,000.
Education
There are the following institutions (as at 2007):
Kindergartens: 675 kindergarten places with 652 children
Elementary schools: 5 with 72 teachers and 1,234 pupils
Famous people
Sons and daughters of the town
Otto Becker (1958- ), German show jumper
Heinrich Hock (1887-1971), German chemist
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schussler (1960- ), German (moral) philosopher
Town partnerships
Carbon-Blanc, Gironde, France
Saulxures-sur-Moselotte, Vosges, France
Hamoir, Liege Province, Belgium
References
Further reading
Wolfgang Hartmann: 1200 Jahre Grossostheim. Grossostheim 1999
Frank Schmelz: Lineare anthropogene Geholz- und Saumstrukturen im Bachgau (Gmde. Grossostheim, Lkrs. Aschaffenburg). Giessen 2001
Other websites
Bavarian Lower Main history portal
Grossostheim in National Socialist times, documentation
Aschaffenburg (district)