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to the place. In the year 1635 the country was so impoverished, “that also here many people had to leave houses and farms, many because of lack of the necessary nourishment had to fill themselves with earth, bran and dusty flour bread, tree bark, oil-cakes, skins of grapes, dogs, cats, and, yes, even
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Sonnefeld Monastery owned Frohnlach, it gave its residents the lands for the farming. In return, they farmed them to deliver the tithes and provided the compulsory labor. The pitchforks of the place would be merged with the arms of Frohnlach. In 1508, for its defense, Frohnlach had 25
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Cloister. Lay brothers went from church to church through the dioceses, announced the indulgence and collected donations for the reconstruction. Very quickly, the Monastery was in the position to build the necessary structures again. The new buildings were not at the old place any more, but at
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to establish a business and the basketwares in industrial production failed to produce results and the companies perished again. Only a few master craftsmen were able to stay above the water. The basketmakers were able to have, with good years of work, sufficient profits but not as much as they did
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Over the centuries, even individual craftsmen, such as coopers , butchers , bakers and innkeepers worked for the monastery. The inn, now House No. 43, is especially worth noting. It was already, in the days of the monastery, a tavern, and belonged to the
Cloister. So the inhabitants of Frohnlach
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Sonneberg gave the newly founded monastery, as the first present, the village of Frohnlach, and on 29 July 1264 Heinrich and his wife Kunigundis handed over their properties to the now finished monastery of Sonnefeld. Amongst them the Bishop of Bamberg included the
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carrion. Also, because malignant and horrible sickness came out of this, many died and many had to languish from hunger. Since the soldiers had taken away all the horses and cattle, the farmers have to push themselves against the plow, so that they might only grow something .”
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Cloister – secular servants of the Cloister – as the House of God because they were not allowed to enter the church of the nuns. In the year 1287 an enormous fire burned the nunnery near Ebersdorf or Frohnlach to the ashes. Fourteen bishops granted
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So far, all the history and local researchers were of the view that the founding of the
Sonnefeld Monastery in Ebersdorf or Frohnlach was only a plan that did not happen because of all the possible misgivings. Walter Lorenz from Coburg in his doctoral thesis
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In 1895 and 1896 Frohnlach got its own school, which was built in 1935 and expanded in 1960. In 1969 it became a part of the School
Association of Ebersdorf. In 1975, it was training three teachers of the third scholastic year of the school association.
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The local firms produce today – in accordance with the requirements of the market – mostly upholstered and plastic furniture in great industrial companies, through which each of the two largest companies in 1975 employed approximately 400 workers.
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parish church in
Ebersdorf, which was created out of a chapel mentioned in the year 1274, is either dated from the time of the founding of the Sonnefeld Monastery or related to the same founding itself. This former chapel could have served for the
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On 13 February 1260 Bishop
Iringus of Würzburg, as the legitimate Bishop of the Diocese, granted his consent to the establishment of the Cloister on the “slope of the birch trees ” near Frohnlach. He approved for the Cloister the Charter of the
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Imperial troops,
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was built in the 11th century with the clearing of the woodlands. Its name mean something like “manorial forest ”. The first mention of Frohnlach was in the year 1260 when the founder of the Sonnefeld Monastery,
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before. However, in the bad times of 1929–1933, unemployment and hunger were regular guests at the homes of the basketmakers. The years 1934 to 1939 brought another recovery, caused by the rise of the
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the village of Hofstädten. Only after completion, the Monastery was then moved to Hofstädten. But Frohnlach would remain in the property of the Sonnefeld Monastery until 1532.
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even today. On top of that, an unimaginable pent-up demand for these goods was found in the cities bombed during the war and, therefore, sales increased steadily.
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Frohnlach is the industrial location for furniture and upholstery. In the matters of transport, Frohnlach is well connected. It has a direct connection with the
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The donations of Henry II also established the lands south of Frohnlach – the southeastern part of the Coburger Land – as a part of the borderland between the
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were making their livings with the Monastery, and we can sum up everything with the old quote: “Under the Crosier was the good life ”.
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