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Marktbreit is a municipality
Municipalities of Germany

Municipality are the lowest level of territorial division in Germany. This may be the fourth level of territorial division in Germany, apart from those States of Germany which include Regierungsbezirke , where municipalities then become the fifth level....
 in the district of Kitzingen
Kitzingen (district)

Kitzingen is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Schweinfurt , Bamberg , Neustadt -Bad Windsheim and W?rzburg ....
 in the Regierungsbezirk
Regierungsbezirk

A Regierungsbezirk is a type of government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states . It is responsible for the districts , either List of German rural districts or urban districts: cities which constitute a district in their own right ....
 Unterfranken in Bavaria
Bavaria

Bavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is a region located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest States of Germany of Germany by area....
 situated at the most southern point of the Main
Main

The Main is a river in Germany, 524 km long , and it is one of the more significant tributaries of the Rhine. The Main flows through the States of Germany of Bavaria, Baden-W?rttemberg and Hesse....
 river. It is the birthplace of Alois Alzheimer
Alois Alzheimer

Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer, was a Germany psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease....
 who first identified the symptoms of what is now known as Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease , also called Alzheimer disease, Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type or simply Alzheimer's, is the most common form of dementia....
. With its Suburb Gnodstadt, Marktbreit has about 4,000 inhabitants (2004).

as first mentioned as "broite inferior" in a document of the count of Castell
Castell

A castell is a human tower traditionally built during festivals in many places in Catalonia, Spain. At these festivals, several colles castelleres meet and try to build the most impressive towers they can....
 in 1266.






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Marktbreit is a municipality
Municipalities of Germany

Municipality are the lowest level of territorial division in Germany. This may be the fourth level of territorial division in Germany, apart from those States of Germany which include Regierungsbezirke , where municipalities then become the fifth level....
 in the district of Kitzingen
Kitzingen (district)

Kitzingen is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Schweinfurt , Bamberg , Neustadt -Bad Windsheim and W?rzburg ....
 in the Regierungsbezirk
Regierungsbezirk

A Regierungsbezirk is a type of government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states . It is responsible for the districts , either List of German rural districts or urban districts: cities which constitute a district in their own right ....
 Unterfranken in Bavaria
Bavaria

Bavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is a region located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest States of Germany of Germany by area....
 situated at the most southern point of the Main
Main

The Main is a river in Germany, 524 km long , and it is one of the more significant tributaries of the Rhine. The Main flows through the States of Germany of Bavaria, Baden-W?rttemberg and Hesse....
 river. It is the birthplace of Alois Alzheimer
Alois Alzheimer

Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer, was a Germany psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease....
 who first identified the symptoms of what is now known as Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease , also called Alzheimer disease, Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type or simply Alzheimer's, is the most common form of dementia....
. With its Suburb Gnodstadt, Marktbreit has about 4,000 inhabitants (2004).

History

It was first mentioned as "broite inferior" in a document of the count of Castell
Castell

A castell is a human tower traditionally built during festivals in many places in Catalonia, Spain. At these festivals, several colles castelleres meet and try to build the most impressive towers they can....
 in 1266. It is very likely that there was a settlement for some hundred years at the delta of the Breitbach. In 1557, King Ferdinand
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

Ferdinand I was a Central European monarch from the Habsburg. He was Holy Roman Emperor from 1558, King of Bohemia and King of Hungary and Croatia from 1526....
 allowed the settlement to hold markets, and the name Marktbreit was given to the small town. In the 17th and 18th century Marktbreit was an important marketplace because the shortest way to the Danube
Danube

The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg River rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance...
 from the Main (which ends in the Rhine
Rhine

File:Swiss Grand Canyon.jpgThe Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....
) starts in Marktbreit.

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