Lohr am Main

Lohr takes its name from the river that joins the Main here, on the edge of the wooded Spessart. Settled by the eighth century at the latest, it was already the principal and most important town of the counts of Rieneck when it first appeared in a document in 1295. It received town rights in 1333 amid a dispute over the inheritance of a recently extinct branch of the Rieneck family.

The counts held Lohr as a fief of the archbishops of Mainz. When the last count died in 1559, the fief passed to the archbishopric. During the Catholic restoration of the early seventeenth century, many townspeople were persecuted as witches. The political changes of the Napoleonic era eventually brought Lohr to Bavaria in 1814.