Burgsinn

Burgsinn (German pronunciation: [ˈbʊʁkˌzɪn] ) is a market municipality in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany and the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (municipal association) of Burgsinn. It has a population of around 2,500. Burgsinn lies in the Main-Spessart district, in the Mittelgebirge Spessart. It is located in the valley of the river Sinn from which it takes its name. The community has only the Gemarkung (traditional rural cadastral area) of Burgsinn. The municipal territory stretches into the wooded hills east and west of the Sinn valley. Burgsinn borders on (from the north, clockwise): Mittelsinn, the unincorporated areas Forst Aura and Omerz und Roter Berg, Wartmannsroth, Gräfendorf, Rieneck, Herrnwald (unincorporated area), Fellen and Aura im Sinngrund. A stone hatchet found in Burgsinn, from the final days of the Neolithic Münchshöfener Kultur bears witness to the first known human presence in the municipal area. In 812 a document from Fulda Abbey mentioned the Sinngau ("Sinn District"), or in the spelling of the time, Sinnahgeuue. From the year 1001 comes the first written proof of the community's existence; at that time it was the village of Sinna, a Würzburg holding.