Frohnhausen (desert)

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Frohnhausen was a place on the site of today's Baumholder military training area south of the Nahe in Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1933 188 people lived in Frohnhausen. In 1938 the place was given up because of the establishment of the military training area, in the following years it was leveled and devastated . The residents mostly moved to the surrounding towns outside the military training area.

The war memorial for the fallen and missing of the First World War was relocated to the so-called “Ehrenhain” in Erzweiler together with the memorials of the other abandoned communities .

Frohnhausen was first mentioned in 1388. The place shared its territorial history with the nearby Baumholder . The village was part of the Protestant parish Baumholder.

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Individual evidence

  1. Population figures of the communities in the Birkenfeld district
  2. The history of the Evangelical Church Community Baumholder - stations in the 20th century.

Coordinates: 49 ° 39 ′ 10.9 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 55.4 ″  E