Lauda-Königshofen

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Town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Lauda-Königshofen within Main-Tauber-Kreis district

(2020–28) Lukas Braun^[1] (FDP)Area

• Total94.47 km² (36.48 sq mi)Elevation

192 m (630 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total14,578 • Density150/km² (400/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

97922

Dialling codes09343Vehicle registrationTBBWebsitewww.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.

Districts

The 12 districts with population (as of 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

Boissy-Saint-Léger (France)
Paks (Hungary)
Rátka (Hungary)

Sports

FV Lauda, soccer
Lauda Hornets, American football

Notable natives

Johann Gottfried von Aschhausen, (1575–1622), Bishop of diocese Würzburg and Archbishopric of Bamberg
Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, (1760–1802), composer
Johann Martin Schleyer, (1831–1912), developer of artificial language Volapük
Albert Hehn (1908–1983), actor
Heinrich Ehrler, (1917–1945), Luftwaffe fighter
Karl Weid, (born 1921), the mayor from 1970s onwards
Jürgen Hehn, (born 1944), fencer, team world champion with his sword in 1973
Manuela Ruben, (born 1964), figure skater, Vice European Champion 1984
Thorsten Weidner, (born 1967), fencer, Olympic team champion with the foil 1992
Martin Lanig, (born 1986), football player

Notable enterprises

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

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

Keep It True, annual heavy metal festival
Königshöfer Messe, annual fair

References

^ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 13 September 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.