Kleinostheim
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Kleinostheim is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.
Constituent communities The community of Kleinostheim is about 40 kilometers east southeast of Frankfurt am Main about a half hour drive from it.
Kleinostheim lies upstream from Frankfurt on the river Main.
It is at the western edge of the Spessart range near Aschaffenburg.
Like the nearby city of Mainz to the west, the 50th parallel north goes through the community.
Kleinostheim's four Ortsteile are Kleinostheim, Waldstadt, Industriegebiet West and Wingert.
The later three, however, are not officially recognized.
Owing to the favourable transport connections over an important north-south railway link and the Autobahnen A 3 and A 45, and because it lies on the Rhine-Danube waterway and in the middle of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region,
the community offers many advantages as a location.
Kleinostheim benefits from lying near prosperous cities such as Frankfurt, Offenbach and Aschaffenburg by serving as a commuter town.
Since the 1960s, the community's population has more than doubled from 4,000 to over 8,000.
Kleinostheim was most likely founded in the 6th century as Ossenheim by the Franks, and in 975, it had its first documentary mention.
For almost a thousand years it was ecclesiastically and politically tightly bound with Saints Peter's and Alexander's Monastery in Aschaffenburg.
On 21 January 1945, the community suffered the most dreadful day in its history.
In an air raid, more than 500 buildings were either damaged or utterly destroyed, and 61 people were killed.
Commemorating this is a memorial site, renovated in 1995, at the graveyard.
In 1951, the third Saint Lawrence's Church (Laurentiuskirche) in the Catholic parish's over 1000-year history was consecrated.
Nearby, in 1955, so was Sa...
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