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Country
  
Germany

Admin. region
  
Stuttgart

Elevation
  
192 m (630 ft)

Area
  
94.47 km²

Local time
  
Monday 1:37 PM

State
  
Baden-Württemberg

District
  
Main-Tauber-Kreis

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Population
  
14,805 (31 Dec 2008)

Postal code
  
97922

Lauda-Königshofen wwwlaudakoenigshofendepbsiteLaudaKoenigshof

Weather
  
12°C, Wind N at 5 km/h, 41% Humidity

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.

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Map of 97922 Lauda-K%C3%B6nigshofen, Germany

Districts

The 12 districts with number of population (as in 2001):Area in km² (as in 2006)

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 the 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

    Lauda-Königshofen Wikipedia
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