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Schweinfurt
Onomastics: swin (Old Franconian./Old Saxonian.,= shallow water; the 2nd part -furt means -ford) --> Suuinfurtero, Swinfurthe, Swinvorde, Sweynfurt
first documentary mention: 791 A.D.
Number of inhabitants: 54,000
Area: 35,70 km²
State: Bavaria
Administrative district: Lower Franconia
County: /
Vehicle registration plate: SW
River: Main; Wern
The Club FKK Kings is located in Schweinfurt-Hainig.
From the Franconian highlands, the Main river makes its way over 500 kilometres past Bayreuth, Bamberg, Schweinfurt, Würzburg, Aschaffenburg, Hanau and Frankfurt until it finally flows into the Rhine at Wiesbaden. As with the other towns mentioned, in particular the Franconian ones, Schweinfurt is a residence town with a proud tradition that has existed since the early Middle Ages and, similar to Bamberg and Rothenburg ob der Tauber, the city has suffered relatively little damage from the Second World War. In the cityscape architectural styles from numerous epochs are preserved, beginning with the historical city wall, the market place with the proud town hall, the lead shot tower, the armoury, the former monastery yard Ebrachter Hof, the castle Peterstirn, important church buildings like the St. Johannis from the 13th century and the St. Salvador, the Main bridges, the old town Entrée and the old fisherman's quarter at the Main. Recent highlights include the intact Bauhaus style of the 1930s and the extensive renovation of the old town, as well as new districts such as Bellevue and Carus-Park. Schweinfurt is also home to the University of Applied Sciences; the Carus-Park i-Campus/i-Factory science complex will be newly established in conjunction with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation. Schweinfurt is regarded as the city where Philipp Moritz Fischer built the first bicycle in 1853.
Schweinfurt is one of the oldest towns in Bavaria. From the 12th century until the end of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsdeputationshauptschluss), the city was an imperial city; later on it came to Bavaria. During the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) the town was one of the followers of the Reformation; in 1632 Swedish King Gustav II Adolf and his Field Marshal Wrangel took up quarters there and assively expanded the town's fortifications. In the same century Schweinfurt's rise to a humanistic and scientific centre began. The German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina was founded in 1652 (today the National Academy of Sciences with its headquarters in Halle).
Schweinfurt is thoroughly influenced by Franconian tradition and yet a multicultural city. With the exception of Wolfsburg and Ingolstadt, in Germany per capita GDP is nowhere higher than in Schweinfurt. Traditional industrial groups - especially in the field of rolling ball bearings - such as Schaeffler (FAG Kugelfischer), SKF (Svenska Kullagerfabriken), ZF Friedrichshafen (Fichtel & Sachs), SRAM bicylcle equipment (Fichtel & Sachs), Winora-Staiger Bicycles, Fresenius Medical Care, SenerTec, Cahl Kühne and Bosch-Rexroth have important branches or even their headquarters here and give the city the largest contiguous industrial area in the whole of Bavaria with its own port on the Main river. Nevertheless, Schweinfurt proves itself to be a city with a high recreational value, not least because of its natural location on the Rhön, Haßbergen, Steigerwald and Spessart low mountain ranges with many parks and inshore waters, numerous traditional Franconian festivals and church consecrations, the city theatre, museums (e.g. Museum Georg Schäfer) and Mainberg Castle, but also modern institutions such as the Honky Tonk pub festival, numerous in-discos, a distinctive hiphop scene and the Lower Franconian Fair. From 1945 to 2014, Schweinfurt was one of the most important US garrison cities in Europe (USAG Schweinfurt). After his military service in Schweinfurt, the US-American Harry Gelbfarb opened Germany's first bodybuilding studio in Schweinfurt in 1956.
Among Schweinfurt's famous sons and daughters are Judith von Schweinfurt, Otto III (Swabia), Johann Elias Bach, Johann Lorenz Bach, Friedrich Rückert, Theodor Fischer, Philipp Moritz Fischer, Friedrich Fischer, Willy Sachs, Andreas Kupfer, Albin Kitzinger, Stefan Marquard, Jürgen Höller and Bernie Paul as well as Gunter Sachs, born at Mainberg Castle.

Kolping-Hotel GmbH (2,1 Km)
Moritz-Fischer-Straße 3
97421 Schweinfurt
https://www.kolpinghotel-schweinfurt.de
Hotel am Bergl (2,4 Km)
Berliner Platz 1
97424 Schweinfurt
https://www.hotelambergl.de