- Caspar Froebel

ancestor of Friedrich Froebel

The ancestry of Friedrich Froebel, the inventor of Kindergarten, has been traced to Caspar Froebel, who died in 1640 at Grossgoelitz, in Thuringia. Caspar was appointed to the office of Schultheiss (a village magistrate or sherrif) by the Counts of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

Grossgoelitz appears in a 1441 list of the places within the Quittelsdorf parish, which included Leutnitz, Unterrottenbach, Kleingoelitz, Cordobang, Froebitz and Keilhau.

Quittelsdorf was established before 1296, probably by Paulinzella monastry as a place to "settle accounts", that is collect the farm produce, which was paid as rent by the families who were tenants on the monastic lands. After the dissolution of the monastries the land around Paulinzella eventually passed to the Counts of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1575.

During the nineteenth century, members of the Froebel family were living in many German cities and members the family migrated to the United States, England, Canada and Australia.

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