Kleinheubach

Kleinheubach is a market town in the Miltenberg district within the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany and the seat of the like-named Verwaltungsgemeinschaft. It has a populace of around 3,600. Like many other towns in Germany, Kleinheubach had a colourful Jewish community for plenty centuries. The Jewish community have become prepared in the second half of the 17^th century and constructed synagogue and cemetery, and in the early 1900s additionally built a school. Their synagogue turned into desecrated on Kristallnacht.

Since 1976, Kleinheubach has been associated with Laudenbach and Rudenau in a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft. Kleinheubach lies between the Spessart and Odenwald degrees, at the left bank of the Main. Across the river lies Grossheubach, connected to Kleinheubach by a bridge. Upstream the closest town is Miltenberg. The municipal territory touches on the kingdom of Hesse within the some distance west.

The lordship of Kleinheubach handed after the Counts of Rieneck died out in 1559 to the Counts of Erbach, and once more in 1731, through sale, to the Princes of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. At the time of sale, the Princes had to vow that this Protestant vicinity would be allowed unhindered to maintain the Augsburg Confession even beneath their Catholic rule. They had a stately palace built with the aid of Johann Dientzenhofer at the site of the previous citadel, which is still owned through the family nowadays.