Fronhofen

Fronhofen is a municipality in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality simmering / Hunsrück.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

The place is located in the Beaver centrally located in the Hunsrück between the federal highway 50 and the Hunsrückhöhenstraße. The village itself is situated on a hillside, at an altitude 370-408 m above sea level. NN.

Neighboring towns

History

The first mention was made in the year 1285th

Originally Fronhofen of a cloister and a mill. Through a donation of Count Berthold in 1074 it was owned by the monastery Ravengiersburg and belonged until 1408 to the Provost Ravengiersburg, since the upper office simmering. With the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops, the place was French, 1815, he was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Fronhofen consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

On 29 December 1980, the council decided to introduce a municipality coat of arms. Design and final drawings were made by Willi Wagner. The district government Koblenz issued on 15 March 1981, the granting of the coat of arms presented.

The coat of arms description reads: " Black on Silver Three mountain, is growing blue crook, a rotbewehrter and gezungter golden lion to the left".

Historical explanation: Three Mountain and Lion are the Fronhofener Schultheißereisiegel from 1773 taken ( State Archives in Koblenz, Part 4, No 2156 ). The lion refers to the former rulers, the Counts Palatine of simmering and the Elector of the Palatinate, the crook refers to the Fronhof the Augustinian Canons of Ravengiersburg from which the place name is derived.

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