Lauda-Königshofen

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in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Lauda-Königshofen
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Location of Lauda-Königshofen
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Coordinates: 49°34′07″N 09°42′14″E / 49.56861°N 9.70389°E / 49.56861; 9.70389Coordinates: 49°34′07″N 09°42′14″E / 49.56861°N 9.70389°E / 49.56861; 9.70389
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Stuttgart
District	Main-Tauber-Kreis
Government
• Mayor	Thomas Maertens (CDU)
Area
• Total	94.47 km2 (36.48 sq mi)
Elevation	192 m (630 ft)
Population (2017-12-31)[1]
• Total	14,561
• Density	150/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	97922
Dialling codes	09343
Vehicle registration	TBB (Main-Tauber-Kreis)
Website	www.lauda-koenigshofen.de

Lauda-Königshofen is a town in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Tauber, 7 km southeast of Tauberbischofsheim, and 30 km southwest of Würzburg. Most of the roughly 300 houses in the traditional village of Königshofen date to between the 16th century and mid-19th century, and it is known for the 500+ year-old Königshöfer Messe, an annual festival that attracts 150,000 people over the 10-day festival. Lauda station is at a junction of the Franconia Railway and the Tauber Valley Railway.

Contents

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  1 Districts
  


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  2 Twin towns
  


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  3 Sports
  


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  4 Notable natives
  


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  5 Notable enterprises
  


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  6 Events
  


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  7 References
  


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  8 External links
  

Districts

The 12 districts with number of population (as in 2001):Area in km² (as in 2006)

Lauda	5.745	12.55
Königshofen	2.815	13.81
Gerlachsheim	1.888	8.75
Unterbalbach	1.634	5.18
Oberlauda	742	6.96
Oberbalbach	698	7.99
Heckfeld	470	14.68
Beckstein	372	2.88
Sachsenflur	351	5.98
Messelhausen	336	8.16
Marbach	262	1.31
Deubach	118	6.22

Twin towns

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  Boissy-Saint-Léger (France)


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  Paks (Hungary)


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  Rátka (Hungary)

Sports

• FV Lauda, soccer


• Lauda Hornets, American football

Notable natives

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  Johann Gottfried von Aschhausen, (1575-1622), Bishop of diocese Würzburg and Archbishopric of Bamberg
  


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  Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, (1760-1802), composer


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  Johann Martin Schleyer, (1831-1912), developer of artificial language Volapük
  


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  Albert Hehn (1908-1983), actor


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  Heinrich Ehrler, (1917-1945), Luftwaffe fighter


• Karl Weid, (born 1921), the mayor from 1970s onwards


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  Jürgen Hehn, (born 1944), fencer, team world champion with his sword in 1973


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  Manuela Ruben, (born 1964), figure skater, Vice European Champion 1984


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  Thorsten Weidner, (born 1967), fencer, Olympic team champion with the foil 1992


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  Martin Lanig, (born 1986), football player

Notable enterprises

Among the business entities located in Lauda are the two world famous manufacturers of laboratory equipment:

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  Lauda, a manufacturer of thermostats.


• Herzog, a manufacturer of crude oil and fuel testing equipment. The founder of the company, Walter Herzog, has moved to Lauda after World War II, and pioneered a few important innovations in the testing of oil and fuels, like first automatic flash point tester, first automatic distillation apparatus, and others.

Events

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  Keep It True, annual heavy metal festival


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  Königshöfer Messe, annual fair

References

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External links

• Stefan Heidrich's page about Lauda-Königshofen (German)


• Oliver Pinkos's page about the district Beckstein (German)


• Ralf Liebenstein's page about the district Messelhausen (German)


• Sascha Renk's page about the district Oberlauda (German)

v t e Towns and municipalities in Main-Tauber (district)
Ahorn Assamstadt Bad Mergentheim Boxberg Creglingen Freudenberg am Main Großrinderfeld Grünsfeld Igersheim Königheim Külsheim Lauda-Königshofen Niederstetten Tauberbischofsheim Weikersheim Werbach Wertheim am Main Wittighausen

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