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{{short description|Place in Bavaria, Germany}}
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{{Infobox German place
|type              = Stadt
|name              = Lohr a.Main<br>Loa
|image_photo       = Lohr_am_Main.JPG
|image_caption     = Lohr (left) and Sendelbach (right), viewed from the ''Lohrer Alm''
|image_coa         = Lohr Wappen.svg
|coordinates       = {{coord|50|0|N|09|35|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan        = Lohr am Main in MSP.svg
|state             = Bayern
|region            = Unterfranken
|district          = Main-Spessart
|mayor             = Mario Paul<ref>[https://www.statistik.bayern.de/wahlen/kommunalwahlen/bgm/ Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden], [[Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik]], 15 July 2021.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2020&ndash;26
|party             = independent
|elevation              = 160-350
|area            = 90.42
|postal_code               = 97816
|area_code           = 09352
|licence               = MSP 
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 09 6 77 155
|divisions         = 10 ''Stadtteile''
|website           = [http://www.lohr.de/ www.lohr.de]
}}
[[File:Lohr Kirchturm.jpg|thumb|right|The town's parish church, St. Michael]]

'''Lohr am Main''' ({{IPA|de|ˈloːɐ̯ ʔam ˈmaɪn}}, {{lit|Lohr on the [[Main (river)|Main]]}}; officially: ''Lohr a.Main'') or '''Loa''' ({{Langx|bar|Loa}}) is a town in the [[Main-Spessart|Main-Spessart district]] in the ''[[Regierungsbezirk]]'' of [[Lower Franconia]] (''Unterfranken'') in [[Bavaria]], [[Germany]] and the seat (but not a member) of the ''[[Municipal association|Verwaltungsgemeinschaft]]'' (municipal association) of Lohr am Main. It has a population of around 15,000.

==Etymology==
The town takes its name from the eponymous river that flows into the Main in the municipality.
<ref name="LfO">Wolf-Armin Frhr. v. Reitzenstein: Lexikon fränkischer Ortsnamen. Herkunft und Bedeutung. C.H.Beck, München 2009, {{ISBN|978-3-406-59131-0}}, p. 133.</ref><ref>Theodor Ruf: ''Quellen und Erläuterungen zur Geschichte der Stadt Lohr am Main bis zum Jahr 1559''. Lohr am Main 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-00-035963-7}}, pp.&nbsp;46–47.</ref> The addition "am Main" distinguishes it from other towns also named Lohr.

Past ways of spelling the name include:<ref name="LfO" />
{|
|-
|width="100" valign="top"|
* 1296 Lare
* 1331 Lore
* 1342 Lor
* 1526 Lohr
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* 1573 Loarn
* 1747 Lahr
* 1831 Lohr
* 1946 Lohr am Main<ref name="LfO" />
|}

== Geography ==

=== Location ===
The municipal territory extends on both banks of the [[Main (river)|Main]] about halfway between [[Würzburg]] and [[Aschaffenburg]] in Lower Franconia. The town of Lohr lies on the eastern slope of the [[Spessart]] at a bend in the river Main, which swings towards the south here, forming the beginning of the ''Mainviereck'' ("Main Square" – the southern part of the Spessart). In Lohr, the river [[Lohr (river)|Lohr]] empties into the Main. Perhaps for its geographical location or the fact that two major valleys lead into the interior of the range, the town is known as the "Gateway to the Spessart" (''Tor zum Spessart'').<ref name="Tourist1">{{cite web|url=http://www.lohr.de/Sites/gensite.asp?SID=cms280520151148193620721&Art=4&WB=1|title=Lohr a. Main (German)|publisher=Lohr Touristinformation|accessdate=28 May 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528144224/http://www.lohr.de/Sites/gensite.asp?SID=cms280520151148193620721&Art=4&WB=1|archivedate=28 May 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

The Main river valley is steep with an elevation change from 160&nbsp;m above [[sea level]] at Gemünden dropping to 100&nbsp;m above sea level at Hanau. The river Main in its natural state is a fast-moving stream unsuitable for shipping. In the 19th century the river was tamed and a system of dams and locks is now part of the [[Rhine-Main-Danube Canal]] connecting the [[North Sea]] with the [[Black Sea]].

=== Geology ===
The bedrock, with a depth of about 400&nbsp;m, is made up mainly of [[Sedimentary rock|sedimentary]] minerals. In the Spessart is found a great deal of [[Bunter (geology)|bunter]]. This geological plain with a slight slope to the southeast is the product of a large continental sea that drained owing to a tectonic shift. In the east, the range is abutted by the ''Fränkische Platte'' (a flat, mostly agricultural region), whose geology is mainly [[Muschelkalk]]-based.

The sandstone bedrock with strata of [[loess]] and [[clay]] in conjunction with an extensive forest provide for excellent water quality of the springs and groundwater of the region. The people of Lohr thus enjoy high-quality drinking water. Currently, large amounts of this water are pumped to areas as far away as Würzburg.

===Subdivisions===
Lohr am Main's ''[[Ortsteil|Stadtteile]]'' are {{Interlanguage link|Halsbach (Lohr am Main)|de|3=Halsbach (Lohr am Main)|lt=Halsbach}}, Lindig, {{Interlanguage link|Pflochsbach|de}}, {{Interlanguage link|Rodenbach am Main|de|3=Rodenbach am Main)|lt=Rodenbach}}, {{Interlanguage link|Ruppertshütten|de}}, {{Interlanguage link|Sackenbach (Lohr am Main)|de|3=Sackenbach (Lohr am Main)|lt=Sackenbach}}, {{Interlanguage link|Sendelbach (Lohr am Main)|de|3=Sendelbach (Lohr am Main)|lt=Sendelbach}}, {{Interlanguage link|Steinbach (Lohr am Main)|de|3=Steinbach (Lohr am Main)|lt=Steinbach}} and {{Interlanguage link|Wombach|de}}.<ref name="Town1">{{cite web|url=http://www.lohr.de/sites/gensite.asp?SID=cms28052015121008957910&Art=0777:604|title=Lohr a. Main - Stadtteile (German)|publisher=Lohr Touristinformation|date=|first=|last=|accessdate=28 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528140940/http://www.lohr.de/sites/gensite.asp?SID=cms28052015121008957910&Art=0777:604|archive-date=28 May 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The town has the following ''Gemarkungen'' (traditional rural cadastral areas): Halsbach, Lohr a. Main, Pflochsbach, Rodenbach, Ruppertshütten, Sackenbach, Sendelbach, Steinbach, Wombach.

Moreover, the town of Lohr am Main also owns plots of land within other municipalities, namely [[Partenstein]], [[Gemünden am Main]] and [[Rechtenbach]].

=== Neighbouring communities ===
Clockwise from the north, these are Partenstein, [[Frammersbach]], [[Flörsbachtal]], [[Fellen]], [[Burgsinn]], [[Rieneck]], [[Neuendorf, Bavaria|Neuendorf]], Gemünden am Main, [[Karlstadt am Main|Karlstadt]], [[Steinfeld, Bavaria|Steinfeld]], [[Neustadt am Main]] and Rechtenbach.

== History ==
[[File:Lohr Bayersturm.jpg|thumb|The ''Bayersturm'']]
The town of Lohr am Main was settled no later than the 8th century, and by the time of its first documentary mention in 1295 it was already the main centre of the [[County of Rieneck]].

In 1333 Lohr was granted town rights, which can be explained by the disagreement about the inheritance of the Counts of Rieneck-Rothenfels, which had died out. Indeed, Lohr had been a "town" for quite some time already. The town lords were the Counts of Rieneck, who had been enfeoffed by the [[Archbishop of Mainz]] (evidence of this is only available beginning in 1366).

In 1559, after the last Count of Rieneck, Philipp III’s death, the fief passed to the Archbishopric of Mainz. From 1603 to 1618, during the "Recatholization"<!--Acc.to de:WP, this is a distinct event from the Counterreformation.--> many townsfolk fell victim to [[Witch trials in the early modern period|persecution as witches]]. The former ''[[Amt (country subdivision)|Oberamt]]'' of the [[Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg]] was [[German mediatisation|secularized]] in favour of [[Prince primate|Prince Primate]] [[Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg|von Dalberg]]'s [[Principality of Aschaffenburg]] and passed along with this state in 1814 (by this time it had become a part of the [[Grand Duchy of Frankfurt]]) to the [[Kingdom of Bavaria]]. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current town-level municipality came into being with the ''Gemeindeedikt'' ("Municipal Edict") of 1818.

In 1875, the ''Alte Mainbrücke'' (old Main bridge) was built. In 1936 came the new Lindig neighbourhood. In 1939, Sendelbach was amalgamated with the town.

Between 1940 and 1945, under [[Nazi]] rule more than 600 children, women and men were deported to [[Sonnenstein castle|Sonnenstein]] and [[Grafeneck]], as well as to the [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] and [[Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp|Mauthausen]] concentration camps from what was then the Health and Care Institute (now the Regional Hospital for Psychiatry) as part of the [[Euthanasia]] programme, "[[Action T4]]". Since 1993, a bronze relief in the street by artist Rainer Stoltz serves as a memorial to these victims of the Nazi régime.

On 2 April 1945, Lohr citizen Karl Brand was murdered, because he wanted to surrender the town to [[United States|American]] troops without a fight. Since 1979, a memorial stone has recalled this.<ref>Gedenkstätten für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Eine Dokumentation, Band 1. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn 1995, {{ISBN|3-89331-208-0}}, S. 161</ref>

From 1972 to 1978, the surrounding communities of Halsbach, Rodenbach, Ruppertshütten, Sackenbach, Steinbach, Wombach and Pflochsbach were amalgamated with the town. On 1 July 1972, the greater part of the District of Lohr (''Landkreis Lohr'') became part of the new District of Mittelmain (''Landkreis Mittelmain''), which in 1973 was given its current name, Main-Spessart. At first, Lohr am Main was chosen as the district seat (''Kreisstadt''), but in October 1972 it was decided that Karlstadt would be the new district seat, and the ''Landratsamt'' (district office) was moved from Lohr to Karlstadt.

== Economy ==
Lohr am Main is economically the most important centre in the Main-Spessart district.<ref name="Town2">{{cite web|url=http://www.lohr.de/sites/gensite.asp?SID=cms28052015121008957910&Art=0777:602|title=Lohr a. Main - Wirtschaftsstandort (German)|publisher=Lohr Touristinformation|date=|first=|last=|accessdate=28 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528144237/http://www.lohr.de/sites/gensite.asp?SID=cms28052015121008957910&Art=0777:602|archive-date=28 May 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Out of some 12,000 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in town, only some 5,500 actually live in Lohr. The greater number of roughly 6,200 workers commute each day to Lohr. Comparing Lohr am Main with the district seat of Karlstadt, Lohr's importance stands out even more sharply. Although both towns have roughly the same population, Lohr am Main has about three times as many jobs. The greater number of jobs and the number of large businesses in town are also reflected in per-capita tax revenue: in 2005, this was about €1,000.

===Economic structure===
The most important industries are [[hydraulic machinery]], [[electronics]] manufacturing as well as wood and glass processing. In addition, there are a large number of craftsmen's businesses.<ref name="Town2"/>

Important employers in Lohr are:
* [[Bosch Rexroth]] AG (hydraulics, engine building and automation technology) with 6,620 employees, including the former [[Indramat]]
* ''Bezirkskrankenhaus Lohr'' (hospital for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine) with 607 employees
* [[Gerresheimer]] Lohr GmbH (specialty glass and plastics) with 350 employees
* ATY Automotive & Industrial Components GmbH with 250 employees
* Nikolaus Sorg GmbH & Co KG (glass processing) with 165 employees
* Walter Hunger KG (hydraulic components) with 160 employees
* OWI Oskar Winkler GmbH & Co.KG (wooden and plastic mouldings) with 120 employees

The local unemployment rate is less than 3%.<ref name="Town2"/>

===Logging===
The town of Lohr am Main is, with its more than 6,300&nbsp;ha of woodland<ref name="Town2"/> (of which around 4,000 ha are municipally owned) Bavaria's second largest municipal forest owner. The town's woodlands are a mixed broadleaf forest managed under the precepts of the ''Arbeitsgemeinschaft Naturgemäße Waldwirtschaft'' (ANW, "Natural Forest Management Working Group"). Since 2000, the town's forest has been certified according to the [[Forest Stewardship Council]]'s (FSC) criteria.<ref name="Town3">{{cite web|url=http://www.lohr.de/sites/gensite.asp?SID=cms28052015121008957910&Art=0777:402|title=Lohr a. Main - Stadtwald (German)|publisher=Lohr Touristinformation|date=|first=|last=|accessdate=28 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528144229/http://www.lohr.de/sites/gensite.asp?SID=cms28052015121008957910&Art=0777:402|archive-date=28 May 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Arts and culture==

=== Museums ===
[[File:Schloss Lohr 9149 2.jpg|thumb|The ''Lohrer Schloss'']]
[[File:Lohr Friedhofstor.jpg|right|thumb|Small churchyard gate]]
The ''{{Interlanguage link|Lohrer Schloss|de}}'' houses the ''Spessartmuseum''. It deals mainly with economics and handicrafts, but also with the Spessart's regional history.

In the outlying centre of Sendelbach is a school museum with the foci '"Imperial Germany" (1871-1918) and "Third Reich" (1933-1945).

Germany's smallest museum{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} is to be found on Haaggasse in a former transformer hut under monument protection, it shows a variety of [[insulator (electrical)|insulator]]s.

=== Buildings ===
[[File:Lohr altes Rathaus.jpg|thumb|Old town hall]]
Some of the sights of Lohr are the {{Interlanguage link|Townhall (Lohr am Main)|de|3=Rathaus (Lohr am Main)|lt=old town hall}} (1599-1602), the ''Lohrer Schloss'' (an Electoral Mainz palatial castle, 15th to 17th century, that grew from a 14th-century castle of the Rieneck counts), the Roman Catholic parish church {{Interlanguage link|St. Michael (Lohr am Main)|de|3=St. Michael (Lohr am Main)|lt=St. Michael}} (12th to 15th century), the ''{{Interlanguage link|Bayersturm|de}}'' (old town watchtower, 1330-1385), remnants of the town's fortifications, the historic ''Fischerviertel'' ("fishermen’s quarter") and the old town with many [[Timber framing|timber-frame]] buildings. Outside of the town, there is the important pilgrimage site of {{Interlanguage link|Mariabuchen|de}} Monastery and the [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] ''{{Interlanguage link|Schloss Steinbach (Lohr am Main)|de|3=Schloss Steinbach (Lohr am Main)|lt=Schloss}}'' and church in Steinbach.

The ''{{Interlanguage link|Alte Mainbrücke Lohr|de}}'' ("Lohr old Main bridge"), an [[arch bridge]], has spanned the river Main since 1875. One hundred years later, the 417&nbsp;m-long ''{{Interlanguage link|Neue Mainbrücke Lohr|de}}'' ("Lohr new Main bridge"), a [[Prestressed concrete|prestressed-concrete]] structure was constructed.

=== Events ===
The Lohr Good Friday Procession each year draws thousands of visitors. Thirteen life-sized figures mark the [[Way of the Cross]]. The figures are borne and overseen by members of the various craftsmen's guilds. The Procession is actually a remnant of a once much greater, Baroque figure procession. It likely arose in the years after the [[Thirty Years' War]]. The earliest confirmed mention in the church records kept by Saint Michael's parish comes from 1656.

Going back to a vow made during the [[Plague (disease)|Plague]] in 1666 is the Lohr custom of holding a procession each year on Saint Roch's Day (16 August) to the Valentinusberg (hill) above the town and holding festive church services there in honour of the Holy Trinity.

''Spessartsommer'' combines an array of summertime events such as ''Lohrer Tanzfest'' (dance festival), ''Altstadtfest'' (old town festival), ''City-Festival'' and ''Klingendes Lohr'' (ringing Lohr).

Of particular importance is the ''Spessartfestwoche'' ("Spessart festival week"), which lasts ten days around 1 August. A Bavarian beer tent with seating for 4,500 and live music and a beergarden right on the Main with seating for a further 2,000 form the event’s centrepiece. There are also rides and a fireworks finale. In 2008, the 63rd ''Spessartfestwoche'' was held. The ''Festwochen-Express'' bus service’s 12 special lines to and from the festival saw a ridership of 23,416.

There are also cabaret and amateur theatre events in Lohr and the outlying centres.

==Governance==

===Mayor===
The mayor (''Erster Bürgermeister'') of Lohr is Mario Paul.<ref name="Town4">{{cite web|url=http://www.lohr.de/sites/gensite.asp?SID=cms28052015121008957910&Art=0771:384|title=Lohr a. Main - Unsere Bürgermeister (German)|publisher=Lohr Touristinformation|date=|first=|last=|accessdate=28 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528144241/http://www.lohr.de/sites/gensite.asp?SID=cms28052015121008957910&Art=0771:384|archive-date=28 May 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was elected in March 2014. He is the successor of Ernst-Heinrich Prüße (CSU).

=== Coat of arms ===
The town's [[Coat of arms|arms]] might be described thus: Barry of ten gules and Or a bend wavy azure.

The town's arms are essentially those borne by the Counts of Rieneck, who were the local lords from the 13th century until 1559. The wavy bend most likely refers to the Lohrbach, a local stream. The town’s oldest known seal, from 1408, already shows this design. Over time, the number of bars in the [[escutcheon (heraldry)|escutcheon]] has varied, as has the [[tincture (heraldry)|tincture]] of the bend (a version published in the 1920s, for instance, showed “Barry of nine gules and Or a bend wavy vert” – with nine bars and a green bend), for there was no proper blazon for the arms until 1957, when they were officially conferred on the town.<ref>[http://www.ngw.nl/int/dld/l/lohr.htm Description/explanation of Lohr’s coat of arms at ''Heraldry of the World'']</ref>

===Town twinning===
Lohr am Main is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:
*{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Ouistreham]], [[Calvados (department)|Calvados]], France<ref name="Ouistreham twinnings">{{cite web|url=http://www.cncd.fr/frontoffice/bdd-region.asp?action=getRegion&id=4#tabs3 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131127063207/http://www.cncd.fr/frontoffice/bdd-region.asp?action=getRegion&id=4 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-11-27 |title=National Commission for Decentralised cooperation |accessdate=2013-12-26 |work=Délégation pour l’Action Extérieure des Collectivités Territoriales (Ministère des Affaires étrangères) |language=French }}</ref>
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Burgeis]], [[South Tyrol]], Italy
*{{flagicon|POL}} [[Milicz]], [[Lower Silesian Voivodeship|Lower Silesia]], Poland

=== Sponsorship ===
*{{flagicon|CZE}} [[Přísečnice]], [[Czech Republic]]
In 1956 the town undertook the sponsorship arrangement for [[Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)|Sudeten Germans]] [[Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia|driven out]] of their homeland in the town and district known in [[German language|German]] as Preßnitz. The town itself no longer exists. In 1974, its former site became the bed of a new reservoir.

==Infrastructure==

=== Transport ===

==== Rail ====
The [[Main-Spessart Railway]] (''Main-Spessart-Bahn'') from [[Würzburg]] and Gemünden leaves the Main valley on the way to [[Aschaffenburg]]–[[Frankfurt am Main]] and crosses through the Spessart.

The {{Interlanguage link|Bahnstrecke Lohr–Wertheim|de|3=Bahnstrecke Lohr–Wertheim|lt=Lohr–Wertheim line}} from Lohr station through the town was a single-track, unelectrified, standard-gauge line to [[Wertheim am Main|Wertheim]]. Passenger transport between Lohr-Town station and Wertheim was discontinued on 30 May 1976. Passenger service between Lohr-Bahnhof and Lohr-Town ended on 22 May 1977, although this part of the line is still in use for occasional goods transports. The former Lohr-Town station was converted to a pub.

A direct early [[InterCity]] service to [[Munich]] was replaced with a [[Regionalbahn]] to Würzburg when the [[Nuremberg–Munich high-speed railway]] came into service in 2006. The nearest [[InterCityExpress]] stops are Aschaffenburg and Würzburg.

On the eastern edge of town runs a short stretch of the ''Mühlbergtunnel'' on the [[Hanover-Würzburg high-speed rail line]] running north-south. Also within town limits runs a part of the Nantenbach Curve with the ''Schönraintunnel''.

==== Road ====
Lohr lies on ''[[Bundesstraße 26]]'', ''{{Interlanguage link|Bundesstraße 276|de}}'', ''Staatsstraße'' (State Road) 2435 and ''Staatsstraße'' 2315. The nearest [[Autobahn]]en are the [[Bundesautobahn 3|A&nbsp;3]] (Munich - Würzburg – Frankfurt) through the [[Weibersbrunn]], [[Hösbach]] and [[Marktheidenfeld]] [[interchange (road)|interchange]]s, and the [[Bundesautobahn 7|A&nbsp;7]] (Würzburg - [[Kassel]]) through the [[Hammelburg]] interchange.

==== Waterway ====
The river Main is a "Federal Waterway" (''Bundeswasserstraße'') of the first order, [[Wasser- und Schifffahrtsamt|administered]] by the ''{{Interlanguage link|Wasser- und Schifffahrtsamt Schweinfurt|de}}''.
[[File:Lohr Altstadt2.jpg|thumb|''Gasthaus Krone ''(inn) from 1589]]

===Healthcare===
Lohr has at its disposal a ''Kreiskrankenhaus'' (District Hospital) with the disciplines of [[surgery]], [[internal medicine]], [[Anesthesia|anaesthesiology]], [[neurology]], [[gynaecology]], [[urology]], [[ophthalmology]] and [[otolaryngology]], and also the ''Bezirkskrankenhaus'' (Regional Hospital) for [[psychiatry]], [[psychotherapy]], [[psychosomatic medicine]] and [[forensic medicine]] for the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'').

== Education ==
* [[Primary school]]s: Lohr am Main, Rodenbach, Sackenbach, Sendelbach, Wombach
* [[Special education]] schools: St. Kilian-Schule Sonderpädagogisches Förderzentrum Marktheidenfeld – Lohr; St. Nikolaus-Schule with emphasis on mental development
* [[Hauptschule]]: Gustav-Woehrnitz-Volksschule Lohr am Main
* [[Realschule]]: Georg-Ludwig-Rexroth-Realschule
* [[Gymnasium (school)|Gymnasium]]: Franz-Ludwig-von-Erthal-Gymnasium
* [[Vocational school]]: Staatliche Berufsschule Main-Spessart with professional school and training centre
* Professional school - Berufsfachschule für Krankenpflege ([[nursing]])
* Forest school: Bayerische Forstschule
* Forest management school: Bayerische Technikerschule für Waldwirtschaft
* [[IG Metall|IGM]] education centre
* [[College or university school of music|Music school]]: municipal singing and music school
* [[Folk high school]]: Volkshochschule der Stadt Lohr am Main

== Notable people ==
[[File:Spieglein.png|thumb|250px|"Snow White's mirror" at the ''Schloss'']]
* Hans Blum (between 1520 and 1527-around or after 1552), architectural theorist
* [[Philipp Valentin Voit von Rieneck]] (1612-1672), [[Prince Bishop]] of the ''[[Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg|Hochstift Bamberg]]''
* {{Interlanguage link|Franz Christoph von Hutten|de|3=Franz Christoph von Hutten zum Stolzenberg|lt=Franz Christoph von Hutten}} (1706–1770), [[Bishop]] of [[Speyer]] (born in Steinbach)
* [[Franz Ludwig von Erthal]] (1730–1795), Bishop of [[Bamberg]] and [[Würzburg]]
* {{Interlanguage link|Franz Anton Brendel|fr|3=François-Antoine Brendel|lt=Franz Anton Brendel}} (4 October 1735 – 23 May 1799 in Strasbourg), constitutional (not authorized by the Church) Bishop of [[Strasbourg]] during the [[French Revolution]]
* {{Interlanguage link|Franz Jakob Kreuter|de}} (1813–1899), German architect and building engineer.
* [[Joseph Koeth]] (1870–1936), politician and Reich minister in the [[Weimar Republic]]
* [[Ignatius Taschner]] (1871-1913), artist between [[Jugendstil]] and [[Neoclassicism]]
* [[Alfred Rexroth]] (1899-1978), [[Engineer]], [[Entrepreneur]], and [[Anthroposophist]]
* {{Interlanguage link|Karlheinz Bartels|de}} (1937-2016), pharmacist and pharmaceutical historian
* {{Interlanguage link|Katrine von Hutten|de}} (1944–2013), writer and translator
* [[Hermann Joha]] (1960–&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;), [[stuntman]], owner and managing director of the Action film production company [[Alarm für Cobra 11]] 
* [[Nadine Angerer]] (1978–&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;), [[Association football|football]] world champion 2007, European Champion 2009 and 2013
* [[Nicolai Müller]] (1987-), football player

== Other ==
* Lohr is one of the places that claim to be [[Snow White]]’s birthplace.<ref name="Brosch">{{cite web|url=http://www.lohr.de/tourismus-und-kultur/entdecken-erleben/schneewittchen/eine-lohrerin/|title=Lohr und Schneewittchen (German)|publisher=Lohr Touristinformation|date=|first=|last=|accessdate=16 January 2018}}</ref>

== Further reading ==
* Christ, Günter: Lohr am Main. Der ehemalige Landkreis. Hrsg. von der Kommission für Bayerische Landesgeschichte bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Laßleben, Kallmünz 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-7696-6854-4}}
* Loibl, Werner: Die kurmainzische Spiegelmanufaktur Lohr am Main (1698–1806) und die Nachfolgebetriebe im Spessart, 3 Volumes. Geschichts- und Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg 2012. {{ISBN|978-3-87965-116-0}}, {{ISBN|978-3-87965-117-7}}, {{ISBN|978-3-87965-118-4}}
* Ruf, Alfons, Die Pfarrkirche St. Michael in Lohr und ihre Baugeschichte. Lohr a. Main, 1983.
* Ruf, Theodor,  Quellen und Erläuterungen zur Geschichte der Lohr am Main bis zum Jahre 1559, Lohr a. Main,  2011. {{ISBN|978-3-00-035963-7}}
* Ruf, Theodor: Die Grafen von Rieneck. Genealogie und Territorienbildung. Würzburg 1984 (town history)

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* {{Meyers Online|10|875|spezialkapitel=Lohr}}
* [http://www.lohr.de Town’s official webpage] {{in lang|de}}
* [http://www.lohrerhandballer.de Handball in Lohr] {{in lang|de}}

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[[Category:Populated places on the Main basin]]
[[Category:Populated riverside places in Germany]]