Gemunden

Gemunden is a city inside the Main Spessart district inside the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany and lies kind of 40 km down the Main from Wurzburg. Gemunden has round 10,000 inhabitants. The local Schonau monastery becomes founded in 1189 by Philipp von Thungen. A Conventual Franciscan monastery considering the fact that 1699, the clergymen' foremost task become to attend to the monastery and pilgrimage church. The city, which in all likelihood had grown out of an early fishing village at the confluence of the 3 rivers, had its first documentary point out in 1243 in a settlement among Prince Bishop of Wurzburg Hermann I of Lobdeburg and Countess Adelheid of Rieneck.

According to the settlement, two thirds of the fort and half of the settlement were situation to the Hochstift or secular authority of the Prince Bishops of Wurzburg. This observed attempts with the aid of the Counts of Rieneck to enlarge their territory to the south. At that point, Gemunden had already been offered the fame of metropolis through the Rieneck counts.