Arnstein () is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany. Geography Location The town lies on the banks of the river Wern and is roughly 20 km from Schweinfurt and 25 km from Würzburg. Constituent communities Arnstein's Stadtteile are: History Town rights were granted in 1333 by Emperor Louis the Bavarian. The former Oberamt of the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg was in Bavaria's favour secularized and passed in 1805 to Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg. Population development 1961: 7943 1970: 8403 1987: 7640 1995: 8092 2005: 8345 2010: 8090 2015: 8161 Politics Mayor 1972-2002: Roland Metz (CSU) 2002-2014: Linda Plappert-Metz (CSU) 2014–2019: Anna Stolz (independent) 2019–incumbent: Franz Josef Sauer (CSU) Town partnerships Cancale, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France (since 7 September 1988) Łubniany, Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland (since 22 May 1993) Coat of arms The town's arms might be described thus: Argent in base a mount of three vert, thereon an eagle reguardant wings expanded sable armed Or and langued gules. The usual German word for eagle is Adler, but the poetic word Aar also exists. The noun Aar can follow the weak declension, in which case the genitive form is Aaren. The “mount of three” (called a Dreiberg in German heraldry), moreover, can be taken to be a stone (Stein in German). This makes the arms canting, as the town's name, Arnstein, can be taken to mean “Eagle’s Stone”, which is the image suggested by the charges in the arms. The town's oldest known seal, from 1378, already showed this image, as have all Arnstein's seals and coats of arms since then, although the eagle has changed in size and shape over time. The tinctures are known to have been used since 1544. Culture and sightseeing Buildings The Late Gothic parish and pilgrimage church of Maria Sondheim was already Arnstein's parish church at the time when Sondheim was founded. During the time when Arnstein was pledged to the Lords of Hutten, it served the noble family as a family gravesite. The Town Hall was built about 1550 on the site of an older, Gothic building, and in 1754 it was renovated. In 1945, it burnt down to the foundation, but after the War was built once again in its old form. The Pfründnerspital is an historic building built in 1555 at the behest of Moritz