 The community lies in the "Mittelgebirge" Spessart and has one "Gemarkung" (traditional rural cadastral area), also named Wiesen.The former Electoral Mainz "Amt" was secularized at Prince Primate von Dalberg’s behest in 1803 and made part of his newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg, with which the "Amt" passed in 1814 (by this time it had become a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt) to the Kingdom of Bavaria.In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current community came into being with the "Gemeindeedikt" ("Municipal Edict") of 1818.