Lauda-Königshofen

Lauda station is at a junction of the Franconia Railway and the Tauber Valley Railway.

• Type — Stadt • Image Photo — Grünbachbrücke (Gerlachsheim) 02.jpg • Image Coa — DEU Lauda-Königshofen COA.svg • Image Plan — Lauda-Königshofen im Main-Tauber-Kreis.svg • State — Baden-Württemberg • Region — Stuttgart • District — Main-Tauber-Kreis • Elevation — 192 • Area — 94.44 • Postal Code — 97922 • Area Code — 09343 • Licence — TBB • Gemeindeschlussel — 08 1 28 139 • Divisions — 12 Stadtteile/Stadtbezirke • Website — https: www.lauda-koenigshofen.de/ • Mayor — Lukas Braun • Leader Term — 2020–28 • Party — FDP Lauda-Königshofen (De-Lauda-Königshofen.ogg) 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.

The 12 districts with population (as of 2001): Area in km 2 (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

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

• FV Lauda, soccer • Lauda Hornets, American football

• Illustration — Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, 1799 • Johann Gottfried von Aschhausen, (1575–1622), Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and of Würzburg • 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 military aviator and wing commander • Peter Frank (born 1968), jurist, currently serves as a judge in the Federal Constitutional Court

• Hans-Jürgen Hehn, (born 1944), fencer, team world champion and silver medallist, 1976 Summer Olympics • Manuela Ruben, (born 1964), figure skater, silver medallist, 1984 European Figure Skating Championships • Thorsten Weidner, (born 1967), fencer, silver and gold medallist, 1988 & 1992 Summer Olympics

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. • Becksteiner Winzer, a wine cooperative that grows, produces and sells wines made from the region's grapes.

• Königshöfer Messe, annual fair