Frensdorf

Frensdorf is a community in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg.GeographyThe community lies in Upper Franconia south of Bamberg on the lower reaches of the Rauhe Ebrach.Constituent communitiesFrensdorf’s main and namesake centre is the biggest of its Ortsteile with a population of 1,359, but this makes it only slightly bigger than Reundorf with 1,151. The community furthermore has these other outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure: Abtsdorf 286Birkach 255Ellersdorf 150Herrnsdorf 407Hundshof 31Lonnershof 32Obergreuth 109Rattelshof 14Schlüsselau 365Untergreuth 151Vorra 335Wingersdorf 159 (as of 31 December 2006)The community also has four traditional rural land units, known in German as Gemarkungen, named Birkach, Frensdorf, Herrnsdorf and Reundorf, the same names as four of the constituent communities (it is traditional for a Gemarkung to be named after a town or village lying nearby).HistoryThe Lords of Abenberg made Frensdorf into the administrative hub of their holdings in the Bamberg area in the 12th century. They were, like the Andechs Meranians who followed them about 1190, Vögte (sing. Vogt – reeve) of the High Monastery at Bamberg, among whose holdings lay Frensdorf until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803, since which time the community has belonged to Bavaria.