Frohnlach
| Frohnlach | |
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| Ortsteil of Ebersdorf bei Coburg | |
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| Coordinates: 50°13′00″N 11°05′16″E / 50.21667°N 11.08778°ECoordinates: 50°13′00″N 11°05′16″E / 50.21667°N 11.08778°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Oberfranken |
| District | Coburg |
| Municipality | Ebersdorf bei Coburg |
| Area | |
| • Total | 26.50 km2 (10.23 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 310 m (1,020 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 2,000 |
| • Density | 75/km2 (200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Postal codes | 96237 |
| Dialling codes | 09562 |
| Vehicle registration | CO |
| Website | www.frohnlach.de |
Frohnlach is located in Upper Franconia (Oberfranken) in the district of (Landkreis) Coburg. It is the easternmost part of the municipality (Gemeinde) of Ebersdorf bei Coburg and, with around 2,000 inhabitants, the largest district after Ebersdorf.
Frohnlach is located on Bundesstraße 303, 6.4 miles (or 10.3 km) southeast of Coburg near the Thuringian border and at the northern edge of the Lichtenfels Forest.
The Lichtenfels Forest - a former Imperial forest - was in the 10th Century in the possession of the Fulda Abbey. It came in the year 1070 by the hand of the Markgräfin [Countess of the Marches] Alberada with the founding of the Banz Abbey to the Diocese of Bamberg, and was later of greater importance for the Sonnefeld Monastery and its surrounding villages.
At the edge of the Lichtenfels Forest, a settlement called vronenloh was built in the 11th Century with the clearing of the woodlands. Its name mean something like “manorial forest [Herrenwald]”. The first mention of Frohnlach was in the year 1260 when the founder of the Sonnefeld Monastery, Graf [Count] Henry II von Sonneberg, bought the village of “Otnandus de sleten” (from Kirchschletten near Zapfendorf). But it is very possible that Frohnlach might be a little older than that. However, the proof of its true age has not yet been found in any of the civil and church archives of Germany.
But Henry II did not keep Frohnlach for long. On 7 January 1260, according to the records of the Bishop of Bamberg, Henry came to the Cathedral of Bamberg and announced, by placing his cape on the Altar of St. Peter, that he was handing over the villages of Ebersdorf and Frohnlach to the Church. At that time, these villages were owned in part by the Bishop and Cathedral of Bamberg as fiefs. To fulfill Henry's wishes, the villages were conveyed to Jutta von Maidbronn, the Abbess of the Cistercian cloistered monastery of Maidbronn near Würzburg. She was instructed, with the nuns from her cloister, to build a new nunnery, “Sunnental [Valley of the Sun]”, at a place called “Superius Eberharts-Dorf [Upper Village of Eberhard]”, which they took under their separate protection. They were allowed to obtain for their new convent from their woodlands - namely the Lichtenfels Forest - timber for the construction and commerce.
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