Frondorf (desert)

Frondorf is a desert near Eisenbach (Taunus) .

location

The deserted Frondorf was at an altitude of 307 m above sea level in the Eisenbach district of the municipality of Selters (Taunus) near today's Hof zu Hausen am Hauser Bach. The field names Frondorfer Berg and Frondorfer Born still remind of the lost place

history

Frondorf was first mentioned in a document in 1189. Other forms of the name were Vrondorp (1189) and Fronendorf. A noble family from Frondorf named themselves after the place . Frondorf was still inhabited in 1380/81, but in 1534 and certainly also in 1454 it had fallen in desolation.

literature

• Walter Lottermann: Outgoing places in the Camberg area: Contribution to the desert history of the districts of Camberg, Dombach, Eisenbach, Münster, Steinfischbach, Walsdorf and Würges; Font sequence Goldener Grund, Volume 3, 1969, pp. 19-21.
• Walter Lottermann: Former villages in the Camberg district; in: Helmut Heil (Red.), Magistrat der Stadt Camberg (Ed.): Camberg: 700 years of city rights; Contributions to local history, 1981, ISBN 3-87460-045-9 , p. 294.
• Rudi Otto (Red.): Heimatbuch 750 Jahre Eisenbach, Gemeinde Selters (Taunus): 1234 - 1984, 1984, ISBN 3-88913-074-7 , pp. 14-17.

Web links

• Frondorf. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Hellmuth Gensicke: Eisenbach then and now: The desert areas of Frondorf and Wilhelmshain and the Hof Hausen

Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 19.7 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 44.3 ″  E