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Lower Franconia

Lower Franconia is a region in the state of in . The scenic attractions of the River Main including the Mainschleife at Volkach and the low mountain ranges of the Rhön with the spa town Bad Kissingen and of the Spessart with Mespelbrunn Castle belong to the major tourist attractions.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Würzburg and Aschaffenburg.

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or Wuerzburg is in , in northern , . It is the largest city in the Lower Franconia region, famous throughout Germany for its wine and as the northern end of the .

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is a city of 71,000 people in Lower Franconia. It is the largest city in the Bavarian Lower Main region. Because of its location, it is often referred to as the gateway to the Spessart.

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is a city and district in Lower Franconia on the Main river. It is a university town, a wine town and promotes itself as a city of art.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Bad Kissingen and Miltenberg.

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is a famous spa town in Lower Franconia. It is one of 11 "Great Spa Towns of Europe", a transcontinental UNESCO world heritage site.

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is a town in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in , . It is the seat of the and has a population of over 9,000.

is a Landkreis in , . It is bounded by the districts of , and , and the states of and .

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or Loa is a town in the in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in , and the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of . It has a population of around 15,000.

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is a Landkreis in , . It is bounded by the districts of , , and , and by the state of .

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is a town of 9,500 people in Lower Franconia, Germany. Its main claim to fame and indeed the first thing many people think of when hearing the name is the fact that Fastnacht in Franken, a humorous TV program during carnival, is shot here.

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is a community in the in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in , and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of , whose seat is in .

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is a Mittelgebirge, a range of low wooded mountains, in the States of and in . It is bordered by the , Rhön and . The highest elevation is the at 586 metres above sea level.

Lower Franconia

Latitude of center
50.0002° or 50° 0′ 1″ north
Longitude of center
9.9999° or 9° 59′ 60″ east
Population
1,320,000
Elevation
289 metres (948 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4696326929
Geo­Names ID
2819564
Wiki­data ID
Q10547
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Volapük—“Lower Franconia” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Unterfranken”
  • Arabic: “فرانكونيا السفلى”
  • Arabic: “فرنكونيا السفلى”
  • Arabic: “محافظة فرنكونيا السفلى”
  • Aragonese: “Baixa Franconia”
  • Armenian: “Ստորին Ֆրանկոնիա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aşağı Frankoniya”
  • Basque: “Frankonia Beherea”
  • Bavarian: “Untafrankn”
  • Belarusian: “Дольная Франконія”
  • Belarusian: “Ніжняя Франконія”
  • Bulgarian: “Долна Франкония”
  • Catalan: “Unterfranken”
  • Cebuano: “Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken”
  • Cebuano: “Unterfranken”
  • Chinese: “下弗兰肯行政区”
  • Chinese: “下法蘭克尼亞”
  • Chinese: “下法蘭克尼亞行政區”
  • Chuvash: “Анат Франкони”
  • Czech: “Dolní Franky”
  • Danish: “Unterfranken”
  • Dutch: “Bezirk Unterfranken”
  • Dutch: “Neder-Franken”
  • Dutch: “Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken”
  • Dutch: “Unterfranken”
  • Esperanto: “Malsupra Frankonio”
  • Estonian: “Alam-Frangimaa ringkond”
  • Estonian: “Alam-Frangimaa”
  • Finnish: “Unterfranken”
  • French: “Basse-Franconie”
  • French: “District de Basse-Franconie”
  • Friulian: “Basse Franconie (distret governatif)”
  • Friulian: “Basse Franconie”
  • Galician: “Baixa Franconia”
  • German: “Bezirk Unterfranken”
  • German: “Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken”
  • German: “Ufr.”
  • German: “UFr”
  • German: “Unterfranken (Bezirk)”
  • German: “Unterfranken und Aschaffenburg”
  • German: “Unterfranken”
  • German: “Untermainkreis”
  • Greek: “Κάτω Φρανκονία”
  • Hebrew: “פרנקוניה התחתית”
  • Hungarian: “Alsó-Frankföld”
  • Indonesian: “Lower Franconia”
  • Indonesian: “Unterfranken”
  • Interlingue: “Infra Franconia”
  • Italian: “Bassa Franconia”
  • Italian: “Distretto della Bassa Franconia”
  • Italian: “Distretto governativo della Bassa Franconia”
  • Japanese: “ウンターフランケン”
  • Japanese: “ウンターフランケン県”
  • Japanese: “ウンターフランケン行政管区”
  • Korean: “운터프랑켄현”
  • Kurdish: “Frankonyaya Jêrîn”
  • Latin: “Franconia Inferior”
  • Latin: “Provincia Franconia Inferior”
  • Lombard: “Basa Francònia”
  • Low German: “Leegfranken”
  • Low German: “Ünnerfranken”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ënnerfranken”
  • Luxembourgish: “Regierungsbezierk Ënnerfranken”
  • Macedonian: “Долна Франконија”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Unnäfrônkä”
  • Maltese: “Frankonja t’Isfel”
  • Northern Frisian: “Unterfranken”
  • Northern Sami: “Unterfranken (ráđđehusdistrikta)”
  • Northern Sami: “Unterfranken”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Unterfranken”
  • Norwegian: “Unterfranken”
  • Ossetian: “Дæллаг Франкони”
  • Persian: “فرانکن سفلی”
  • Persian: “فرنكونيا سفلى”
  • Polish: “Dolna Frankonia”
  • Polish: “Unterfranken”
  • Portuguese: “Baixa Francónia”
  • Portuguese: “Unterfranken”
  • Romanian: “Franconia Inferioară”
  • Russian: “Нижняя Франкония”
  • Serbian: “Доња Франконија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Donja Frankonija”
  • Slovenian: “Spodnja Frankonija”
  • Slovenian: “Spodnja Frankovska”
  • Slovenian: “Spodnje Frankovsko”
  • Spanish: “Baja Franconia”
  • Swedish: “Unterfranken”
  • Thai: “อุนเทอร์ฟรังเคิน”
  • Turkish: “Aşağı Frankonya”
  • Ukrainian: “Нижня Франконія”
  • Urdu: “فرینکونیا زیریں”
  • Venetian: “Franconia Basa”
  • Vietnamese: “Unterfranken”
  • Volapük: “Disfrankän”
  • “Unterfranken”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lower Franconia”. Photo: Benreis, CC BY 3.0.