Location

Rüdenau lies in the Bavarian Lower Main (Bayerischer Untermain) Region.

The municipality has only the Gemarkung (traditional rural cadastral area) of Rüdenau.

Population development

The figures up to 1950 are drawn from the local chronicle. The 1900 figure is estimated.

Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might be described thus: Gules three bars wavy argent, in chief a dog's head of the second erased gorged sable, in base a sword of the second hilted and pommelled Or per bend sinister.

The dog's head is a canting charge. Although the usual word for “dog” in German is Hund, there is also the word Rüde, and thus this dog's head refers to the noble family of Rüdt who once held sway here, and also for Rüdenau itself. The sword is a reference to the Rüdt family's jurisdiction with regards to the court over which they presided, and also to the place where the Thing was held. The wavy bars are a water symbol. The tinctures argent and gules (silver and red) refer to Electoral Mainz's former hegemony over the area, which ended with the Old Empire's downfall in 1803.

The arms have been borne since 1957.^[3]

Education

• Kindergarten: The local kindergarten with 47 places is sponsored by Caritas. Classes are in the morning.
• Schools: Primary school and Hauptschule services for Rüdenau are supplied by the Kleinheubach collective school (Verbandsschule) with its branches in Rüdenau and Laudenbach. For further schooling, students mostly go to the Realschule in Miltenberg or the Gymnasien in Miltenberg or Amorbach.
• Higher learning: Tertiary education is to be had nearby at the Fachhochschulen in Aschaffenburg or Darmstadt and the universities in Würzburg or Heidelberg.