Lauda-Königshofen is a town in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Tauber, 7 km southeast of Tauberbischofsheim, and 30 km southwest of Würzburg. Most of the roughly 300 houses in the traditional village of Königshofen date to between the 16th century and mid-19th century, and it is known for the 500+ year-old Königshöfer Messe, an annual festival that attracts 150,000 people over the 10-day festival. Lauda station is at a junction of the Franconia Railway and the Tauber Valley Railway.

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Lauda-Königshofen
Town
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Location of Lauda-Königshofen within Main-Tauber-Kreis district
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Coordinates: 49°34′07″N 09°42′14″E
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Stuttgart
District	Main-Tauber-Kreis
Subdivisions	12 Stadtteile/Stadtbezirke
Government
• Mayor (2020–28)	Lukas Braun[1] (FDP)
Area
• Total	94.47 km2 (36.48 sq mi)
Elevation	192 m (630 ft)
Population  (2021-12-31)[2]
• Total	14,469
• Density	150/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	97922
Dialling codes	09343
Vehicle registration	TBB
Website	www.lauda-koenigshofen.de

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The 12 districts with population (as of 2001): Area in km² (as in 2006)

• Boissy-Saint-Léger (France)
• Paks (Hungary)
• Rátka (Hungary)

• FV Lauda, soccer
• Lauda Hornets, American football

• Johann Gottfried von Aschhausen, (1575–1622), Bishop of diocese Würzburg and Archbishopric of Bamberg
• Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, (1760–1802), composer
• Johann Martin Schleyer, (1831–1912), developer of artificial language Volapük
• Albert Hehn (1908–1983), actor
• Heinrich Ehrler, (1917–1945), Luftwaffe fighter
• Karl Weid, (born 1921), the mayor from 1970s onwards
• Jürgen Hehn, (born 1944), fencer, team world champion with his sword in 1973
• Manuela Ruben, (born 1964), figure skater, Vice European Champion 1984
• Thorsten Weidner, (born 1967), fencer, Olympic team champion with the foil 1992
• Martin Lanig, (born 1986), football player

Among the business entities located in Lauda are two world-famous manufacturers of laboratory equipment:

• Lauda, a manufacturer of thermostats.
• Herzog, a manufacturer of crude oil and fuel testing equipment. The founder of the company, Walter Herzog, has moved to Lauda after World War II, and pioneered a few important innovations in the testing of oil and fuels, like first automatic flash point tester, first automatic distillation apparatus, and others.

• Keep It True, annual heavy metal festival
• Königshöfer Messe, annual fair