# Fronhofen

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**Fronhofen** is an *[Ortsgemeinde](/source/Ortsgemeinde_(Germany))* – a [municipality](/source/Municipalities_of_Germany) belonging to a *[Verbandsgemeinde](/source/Verbandsgemeinde)*, a kind of collective municipality – in the [Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis](/source/Rhein-Hunsr%C3%BCck-Kreis) district in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate), [Germany](/source/Germany). It belongs to the *Verbandsgemeinde* [Simmern-Rheinböllen](/source/Simmern-Rheinb%C3%B6llen), whose seat is in [Simmern](/source/Simmern).

## Geography

### Location

The municipality lies in the central [Hunsrück](/source/Hunsr%C3%BCck) in the Biebertal, the valley of the Bieberbach, between *[Bundesstraße](/source/Bundesstra%C3%9Fe)* 50 and the *Hunsrückhöhenstraße* (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on [Hermann Göring](/source/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring)’s orders). The village itself lies on sloped ground at an elevation of 370 to 408 m above [sea level](/source/Sea_level).

## History

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](/source/Ravengiersburg), and thereafter to the *[Oberamt](/source/Amt_(country_subdivision))* 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](/source/Vogt)* 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](/source/Morgen)* (roughly 14 ha) in cropfields, a great [heath](/source/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).

Of the tithes gathered at Fronhofen, the priest got one third, while the other two thirds were shared out by the [Counts of Sponheim](/source/County_of_Sponheim) and their heirs to the families von Wildberg, von Koppenstein, Blicker Landschad von Steinach and Schenk von Schmidtburg, as well as to the Barons of Hacke. The *Haus Klopp* lay south of Fronhofen and was a farm with four households. Fronhofen and Klopp, according to Elector Palatine Phillipp’s *Geistliches Lehenbuch* (“Clerical Book of Fiefs”), belonged to the ecclesiastical region (*Pfarrbezirk*) of Neuerkirch-Biebern.[2]

Beginning in 1794, Fronhofen lay under [French](/source/France) rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of [Prussia](/source/Prussia) at the [Congress of Vienna](/source/Congress_of_Vienna). Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded [state](/source/States_of_Germany) of [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate). *[Flurbereinigung](/source/Flurbereinigung)* was undertaken in 1912 and again in 1985.[3]

## Politics

### Municipal council

The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

### Mayor

Fronhofen’s mayor is Dirk Klöckner.[1]

### Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: *In Schwarz auf silbernem Dreiberg, darin wachsender blauer Krummstab, ein rotbewehrter und gezungter goldener Löwe nach links.*

The municipality’s [arms](/source/Coat_of_arms) might in English [heraldic](/source/Heraldry) language be described thus: Sable in base a mount of three argent surmounting which an abbot’s staff sinister issuant from base azure, and upon which a lion rampant sinister queue fourché Or armed and langued gules.

The silver [charge](/source/Charge_(heraldry)) in base, the mount of three (called a *Dreiberg* in German heraldry) and the lion standing thereupon are drawn from the 1773 seal once used by the *[Schultheißerei](/source/Schulthei%C3%9F)*.[4] The lion refers to the former landholders, the [Counts of Simmern](/source/Palatinate-Simmern) and the [Elector of the Palatinate](/source/Elector_of_the_Palatinate). The abbot’s staff refers to the lordly estate of the [Augustinian](/source/Canons_regular#Canons_Regular_of_Saint_Augustine) canons of Ravengiersburg, from which the municipality gets its name, “lordly estate” being *Fronhof* in [German](/source/German_language).

The arms have been borne since 15 March 1981, and they were designed by Willi Wagner.

## References

1. [Direktwahlen 2019, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis](https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1400000000000.html), Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 4 August 2021.

1. [Fronhofen’s history](http://www.fronhofen.net/ortschronik/)

1. [Municipal facts and figures](http://www.fronhofen.net/gemeindedaten/)

1. Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, Best. 4, Nr. 2156

## External links

- [Municipality's official webpage](http://www.fronhofen.net/) (in German)

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