Burgsinn

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.

Voit von Rieneck family's coat of arms according to Siebmachers Wappenbuch

The community's arms might be described thus: Or a ram's attire gules.

The ram's horn can have been taken from neither the arms borne by the Barons of Thüngen nor those borne by the Counts of Rieneck, even though both families are tightly bound with Burgsinn's history. While the half of Castle Burgsinn that the Counts of Rieneck held in fief passed, when the Counts’ Rothenfels line died out, back to Würzburg in 1333, with the Barons of Thüngen buying the whole castle in 1405 from Würzburg, it was the Voit von Rieneck family, long the Vögte at Rieneck, who were until the 15th century holders of part of the tithes and of the court at Mittelsinn.

In 1630, when the Electorate of Mainz moved to strip the family Thüngen of their fief, the court at Burgsinn was held by the von Rieneck family's steward. The Counts of Rieneck had already died out in the early 16th century. After the Thüngens were reinstated in Burgsinn in 1697, besides various other agreements made by the community, the community received an explicit assurance that it could use “its old village seal”. What kind of seal this was and from what time it came is not said, but since the Voit von Rieneck family bore a ram in its coat of arms, it can be assumed with a likelihood bordering on certainty that Burgsinn's coat of arms was a reduced version of the Voit von Rieneck family's.

Keep at the castle

Rienecker Tor (town gate)

• The castle (Burg in German, meaning a mediaeval military fortification), also called Altes Schloss is laid out like a typical moated castle with a tower at each of the four corners. At the entry into the castle stands a 22 m-tall keep with each side 8.5 m in length[5] and walls of 2.6 m thickness. Construction of the tower has been dated to the 12th century. The buildings that are still standing were converted or renovated in the 16th or 17th century.[3]^: 63 The castle is private property.
• Neues Schloss, late Renaissance[6]
• Fronhöfer Schlösschen, Renaissance building from the early 17th century[7]
• Rienecker Tor, only remaining town gate[8]
• Parish church of St. Martin[9]

There is also a park complex in the community and the cycle paths around Burgsinn run from Würzburg all the way to Fulda.

Burgsinn lies on the Hanover-Würzburg high-speed rail line and the Flieden–Gemünden railway line. At the Betriebsbahnhof Burgsinn (depot), trains can be switched between the old and new lines.

The Staatsstrasse 2303 passes through Burgsinn. To the south it connects to Bundesstrasse 26 at Langenprozelten/Gemünden.

Medical services are provided by three general practitioners with surgeries in the community, one dentist, a pharmacist and two physiotherapists. Furthermore, there is a Bavarian Red Cross rescue station in Burgsinn equipped with an ambulance.

Burgsinn has at its disposal a relatively big outdoor swimming pool with a 50 m-long basin which includes a diving tower area (1, 2 and 3 m), a basin for non-swimmers with a slide and a wading pool. The complex also has a beach volleyball court.