Frauenburg
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Frauenburg (as well as Marienburg or the similar Frauenberg) was a name given to many buildings and several towns that had German-speaking population in the Middle Ages. The names usually originated in the construction of a fortified (hence "-burg") chapel, church, or monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary, also called "Heilige Frau" (holy woman) in German.
Cities, parts of cities or buildings that (used to) bear the name Frauenburg are nowadays located in:
- Austria
- Styria (state)
- Castle Wohnturm der Frauenburg
- Town Unzmarkt-Frauenburg , district of Judenburg
- Styria (state)
- Germany
- Bavaria
- Hesse
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- Ruin Frauenburg [1] [2] [3] in Frauenberg (Nahe), Baumholder, Birkenfeld (district)
- Latvia
- Courland
- Saldus [4] [5], Saldus District
- Courland
- Poland
- Warmia
- Frombork (Latinized to Ginnepolis), known for its cathedral and the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
- Warmia
In Hesse, the Frauenburg is an abbey initially founded as a daughter house of the Abbey of Fulda. The Abbey and the Frauenburg were, however, constructed between the 8th and 10th centuries in what was at the time the region known as Thuringia. [Frauenburg Abbey:[6]]
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