Dammbach

For other uses, see Dammbach (disambiguation).

Dammbach
Municipality
Church of Saint Valentine in Wintersbach
Coat of arms
Location of Dammbach within Aschaffenburg district
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Coordinates: 49°51′N 9°18′E
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Unterfranken
District	Aschaffenburg
Municipal assoc.	Mespelbrunn
Subdivisions	2 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor (2020–26)	Waltraud Amrhein[1]
Area
• Total	32.93 km^2 (12.71 sq mi)
Elevation	220 m (720 ft)
Population  (2023-12-31)[2]
• Total	1,942
• Density	59/km^2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	63874
Dialling codes	06092
Vehicle registration	AB
Website	www.gemeinde-dammbach.de

Dammbach (German pronunciation: [ˈdambax]) is a municipality in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany, and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (municipal association) of Mespelbrunn, whose seat is in Heimbuchenthal.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies in the centre of the Spessart (range), in the so-called High Spessart (Hochspessart). The namesake brook, the Dammbach, rises near Rohrbrunn and has many small tributaries.

As for elevation extremes, the municipality's lowest point lies in the constituent municipality of Neuhammer at 200 m above sea level, and the highest on the Geishöhe at 525 m.

Subdivision

The municipality of Dammbach contains several small hamlets such as Schnorrhof, Hundsrück, Heppe and Oberwintersbach.

History

In 1991, the municipality celebrated the festival “750 years of villages in the Dammbach valley”.

Amalgamations

The municipality came into being in 1976 in the course of municipal restructuring in Bavaria out of the formerly self-administering communities of Wintersbach and Krausenbach. Since both constituent communities were in the Dammbach valley (Dammbachtal in German), Dammbach was chosen as the new name.

Economy

In the last few years, the municipality of Dammbach has opened up a weekend neighbourhood near the constituent municipality of Wintersbach in which more than 100 weekend and holiday homes have been built.

Since 1 December 2006, the municipality of Dammbach has been levying a tax on second homes.

Governance

municipality council

The council is made up of 14 council members, not counting the mayor.

	CSU	Unparteiische Wählergruppe	Total
2002	9	5	14 seats

(as at municipal election held on 3 March 2008)

Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might be described thus: In chief above a bar wavy argent enhanced, gules an acorn in pale surmounted by two oakleaves in saltire of the first, the base party per pale, dexter barry of eight gules and Or, sinister azure a bend sinister argent surmounted by three rings azure.

Dammbach is a very new municipality, having arisen only in 1976 out of the formerly self-administering communities of Wintersbach and Krausenbach through voluntary merger. Geographically it lies on the Dammbach, whence its name comes. This brook has as a reference to it the wavy bar in the municipality's arms. The oakleaves and acorn in the chief symbolize the municipality's location in the High Spessart. Below the wavy bar on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side, the red and gold bars are taken from the arms formerly borne by the Counts of Rieneck. Krausenbach was for a long time one of their holdings. The bend sinister on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side with the rings is taken from the arms formerly borne by the family Echter von Mespelbrunn. They held the lordship over Wintersbach, building a church there in 1415 and a hospital in 1584.

The arms were conferred on 22 July 1988.

Infrastructure

Transport

In Dammbach is found the air navigation beacon “PSA” of an international airway.

References

1. Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden, Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik, 15 July 2021.
2. Genesis Online-Datenbank des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Statistik Tabelle 12411-003r Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes: Gemeinden, Stichtag (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011).