Fronhofen

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Fronhofen

Location of Fronhofen within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district

Coordinates: 49°59′30″N 7°27′56″E / 49.99168°N 7.46543°ECoordinates: 49°59′30″N 7°27′56″E / 49.99168°N 7.46543°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Günter Steffens

Area

• Total

3.71 km² (1.43 sq mi)

Elevation

370-408 m (−969 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

219

• Density

59/km² (150/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55471

06761

SIM

Website

www.fronhofen.net

Fronhofen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Simmern, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück in the Biebertal, the valley of the Bieberbach, between Bundesstraße 50 and the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders). The village itself lies on sloped ground at an elevation of 370 to 408 m above sea level.

In 1285, Fronhofen had its first documentary mention; however, its history does reach back somewhat further. Originally, Fronhofen consisted of a monastery estate and a mill. In 1074, Count Berthold donated the holding to Ravengiersburg Monastery, and until 1408 it belonged to the Provostry of Ravengiersburg, and thereafter to the Oberamt of Simmern.

This lordly estate was what was actually mentioned by name in the first documentary mention in 1285. In a dispute between the Provost of Ravengiersburg and the Vögte of Heinzenberg in that year, it was determined that the monastery should own its four lordly estates free of all service. The estate at that time had a manor house, two barns, a stable and a mill. The grounds amounted to 44 Morgen (roughly 14 ha) in cropfields, a great heath field in the Oberbrühl of 12 Morgen (about 3.8 ha) and 11 meadows, along with a forest of 200 Morgen (roughly 64 ha).

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