- Froebitz
Place of the Froebels
Froebitz was recorded as a place name in the Quittelsdorf parish by the monks of Paulinzella in 1441. At that time, it was part of the vast estates of the Paulinzella monastry and grapes were grown near Froebitz.
According to local tradition, Froebitz and surrounding settlements were established and named during the fifth century at the time of the Kingdom of Thuringia. The name Froebitz suggests that it was a settlement of descendants of Frowin, perhaps the governor of Schleswig, Freawine (Frowinus), from whom the royal family of Wessex claimed descent in the Anglo Saxon Chronicles.
Froebitz and the surrounding district eventually passed to the Counts of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1575, after the dissolution of the monastries. Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt became a Principality in 1700 and continued as a sovereign state until 1920, when it formed part of the new state of Thuringia. Lavendar grows today on the hillsides where grapes grew in the Middle Ages.
Friedrich Froebel wrote in 1826 that Schwarzburg and Thuringia were his home and his native land.
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