Kleinwallstadt

Kleinwallstadt is a market community in the Miltenberg district inside the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany and the seat of the like-named Verwaltungsgemeinschaft. Kleinwallstadt changed into already settled quite early on. Archaeological unearths from Hallstatt times bear witness to the prehistoric settlers. At a discover in 1980, no longer only have been some lady skeletal stays unearthed, but also some lovely grave items from Alamannic instances. In Kleinwallstadt, then additionally known as Bischofswallstadt, which was transformed to Christianity as early as the early 8^th century, the Archbishop of Mainz set up in 1023 a Vogtei and a tithe court over a first rate expanse of the Spessart.

In the 12^th and early 13^th century, the Lords of Waldenberg had been enfeoffed with the vicinity. About 1185 they built a citadel on a crag east of the community, but this had already been destroyed through the mid 13^th century. From the 16^th century, the Focke von Wallstadt circle of relatives had been resident in the community. Their seat, the “Ingelheimer Hof” subsequent to the metropolis corridor, and all appurtenances exceeded in 1587 to the Echter von Mespelbrunn own family, and thereafter to the Imperial Counts of Ingelheim.