DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Freistaat Bayern	Bavaria
Regierungsbezirk: Unterfranken
Kreis: Main-Spessart

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Lohr am Main (officially: Lohr a. Main) is situated at an elevation of 161 m on the Main river, about halfway between Würzburg and Aschaffenburg. The municipality has a population of about 15,100 (2015). It is also the seat of, but not part of, the administrative union Lohr am Main (Neuendorf, Neustadt a. Main, Rechtenbach and Steinfeld).

The town 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 following a disagreement about the inheritance of the Counts of Rieneck-Rothenfels, which had died out. 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 death of the last Count of Rieneck the fief passed to the Archbishopric of Mainz. The former Oberamt of the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg was secularized in favour of Prince Primate 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. From 1972 to 1978, the surrounding communities of Halsbach, Rodenbach, Ruppertshütten, Sackenbach, Steinbach, Wombach and Pflochsbach were amalgamated with the town. In 1972, the greater part of the District Lohr became part of the new District Mittelmain, which in 1973 was given its current name, Main-Spessart. At first, Lohr am Main was chosen as the district seat, but in October 1972 it was decided that Karlstadt would be the new district seat.

The history of the parish church Sankt Michael [background right] goes back to the 13th century. The parish was first mentioned in 1295. The original church was dedicated to St. Martin. The sacristy of today was built in the 12th century, at first as a cemetry chapel. Around 1300, this church was enlarged by the addition of side naves to the north and south. Major transformations from the prior Romanesque to a Gothic church were carried out in 1488–1500. The west tower was built in 1496. Further modifications followed in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Old Main Bridge [foreground] was built in 1871–1875. The red sandstone bridge has a length of 296 metres and crosses the river in 6 spans of 29–30 metres each. In March 1945 the German army blew up one of the pillars. After the war, the pillar and the two adjacent spans were reconstructed in concrete (cased in red sandstone); the bridge was reopened in May 1946.