Burgstadt

Burgstadt is a market town in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia Unterfranken in Bavaria, Germany and the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Administrative Community of Erftal. Burgstadt is a winegrowing network in the wine district of Franken. It has a population of around 4,300. Burgstadt lies at the mouth of the stream Erf where it exhausts into the Main and has become together with the district seat of Miltenberg misleading the southwest. It lies at the upper east edge of the Odenwald slope, on the limit with Baden-Wurttemberg.

The Burgstadter Berg was possessed as ahead of schedule as 3,200 BC by individuals from the Michelsberg culture. Amid the Urnfield time frame ca. 1200 to 800 BC an invigorated settlement secured by a round defense was developed on the slope. The bulwarks extended for an all out length of 3.2 km, encompassing a region of ca. 40 hectares. Unearthings discovered survives from an entryway from around 900 BC. Until the 18th century, Burgstadt was the seat of a Centgraf tithe tally, yet had effectively lost quite a bit of its significance by the late Middle Ages to neighboring Miltenberg, likewise a property of Mainz, which had a progressively good key area and was ensured by a stronghold.