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38-790: Frauenberg may refer to: Frauenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate , in Germany Frauenberg, Styria , in Austria Frauenberg, Moselle , a commune of the Moselle department in France Hluboká nad Vltavou , a town in South Bohemia, known as Frauenberg in German Frauenberg (Bavaria) , a mountain near Grafenau, Bavaria, Germany Frauenberg (Hesse) ,

76-433: A parish church . The earliest Christian places of worship are now often referred to as chapels, as they were not dedicated buildings but rather a dedicated chamber within a building. Most larger churches had one or more secondary altars which, if they occupied a distinct space, would often be called a chapel. In Russian Orthodox tradition, the chapels were built underneath city gates, where most people could visit them;

114-504: A castle Or masoned and windowed sable and sinister a countess proper crowned of the fourth and crined of the fifth couped at the midriff. The “chequy” part of the shield is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim and the Oberamt of Birkenfeld. The two charges in base are canting for the origin of the municipality's name, a lady ( Frau ) and a castle ( Burg ). The lady in question, of course,

152-591: A famous example is the Iberian Chapel . Although chapels frequently refer to Christian places of worship, they are also found in Jewish synagogues and do not necessarily denote a specific denomination. In England—where the Church of England is established by law— interdenominational or interfaith chapels in such institutions may be consecrated by the local Anglican bishop. Chapels that are not affiliated with

190-472: A hospital or university chapel). Chapels that are built as part of a larger church are holy areas set aside for some specific use or purpose: for instance, many cathedrals and large churches have a " Lady chapel " in the apse, dedicated to the Virgin Mary ; parish churches may have such a Lady chapel in a side aisle or a "chapel of Reservation" or " Blessed Sacrament chapel" where the consecrated bread of

228-644: A long time. By 1816, there were 19 families living in Frauenberg. Of the old village of Tal-Frauenberg, three houses are still standing in the ruins. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Sonnenberg belonged to the Principality of Birkenfeld, an Oldenburg territory, whereas Frauenberg belonged to the Principality of Lichtenberg , held by Saxe-Coburg , with its capital at Sankt Wendel . This put

266-663: A military or commercial ship. Third, chapels are small places of worship, built as satellite sites by a church or monastery, for example in remote areas; these are often called a chapel of ease . A feature of all these types is that often no clergy were permanently resident or specifically attached to the chapel. For historical reasons, chapel is also often the term used by independent or nonconformist denominations for their places of worship in England and especially in Wales, even where they are large and in practice they operate as

304-507: A mountain near Marburg, Hesse, Germany [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frauenberg&oldid=895126980 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

342-406: A particular denomination are commonly encountered as part of a non-religious institution such as a hospital, airport, university or prison. Many military installations have chapels for the use of military personnel, normally under the leadership of a military chaplain . The earliest Christian places of worship were not dedicated buildings but rather a dedicated chamber within a building, such as

380-490: A room in an individual's home. Here, one or two people could pray without being part of a communion or congregation. People who like to use chapels may find it peaceful and relaxing to be away from the stress of life, without other people moving around them. The word chapel , like the associated word chaplain , is ultimately derived from Latin . More specifically, the word is derived from a relic of Saint Martin of Tours : traditional stories about Martin relate that while he

418-472: A town, as the word is nowadays understood, ever grew out of Tal-Frauenberg. The village merely held more importance than other places in the area because it was the seat of a castle, which itself consisted of a manor house, a castle chapel , the comital mill, a tithe barn and a stone bridge over the Nahe. There was also a Sponheim Amtmann living there. In 1570, when the village was home to some eight families,

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456-712: A widow's seat. Under this Sponheim castle's protection arose the village of Tal-Frauenberg ( Tal is German for “dale” or “valley”). By virtue of the Sponheims’ good relations with the then German emperor, Louis the Bavarian , Tal-Frauenberg was granted town rights in 1332, at which time also arose the Amt of Frauenberg, which encompassed not only Tal-Frauenberg, but also Reichenbach, Ausweiler, Winnenberger-Hof, Hammerstein (nowadays an outlying centre of Idar-Oberstein ), Homricher-Hof, Nohen and Rimsberg . However, nothing like

494-478: Is German for “new”), while the other nine families were to be settled on the Sonnenberg (mountain). The government required that both new villages be built halfway up the slopes at their respective locations, to forestall any threat from flooding such as that that had destroyed Tal-Frauenberg. This was duly done, and to this day, both centres lie on slopes. Land had to be shared out at the new locations, and this

532-542: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Frauenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate The municipality lies on the upper Nahe between the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France , and the Hunsrück . Frauenberg borders in the south on Reichenbach , in the west on Sonnenberg-Winnenberg , in the north on Idar-Oberstein and in

570-583: Is the one who financed and moved into the castle, the aforementioned Countess Loretta (or Lauretta) von Sponheim-Starkenburg, and the castle was called "Frauen burg " (not Frauen berg with an "e", which is pronounced differently and means "Lady's Mountain" rather than "Lady’s Castle"). The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate ’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: An earlier version of this article falsely identified this Frauenburg with that built by Sophie of Brabant. To

608-526: Is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. First, smaller spaces inside a church that have their own altar are often called chapels; the Lady chapel is a common type of these. Second, a chapel is a place of worship, sometimes interfaith , that is part of a building, complex, or vessel with some other main purpose, such as a school, college, hospital, palace or large aristocratic house, castle, barracks , prison , funeral home , hotel, airport, or

646-541: The Amt of Frauenberg was dissolved and merged with the Amt of Birkenfeld. The Frauenburg was thus forsaken and left to fall into ruin, having lost its military importance with territorial changes and the rise of firearms , serving thereafter only as a refuge where the local people could flee and seek shelter in times of war. The parish of Reichenbach mentioned in 1655 that after the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), no-one

684-513: The British - and French- occupied Saarland. The remaining 68 municipalities then bore the designation “Restkreis St. Wendel-Baumholder”, with the first syllable of Restkreis having the same meaning as in English, in the sense of “left over”. As the last element of the name suggests, Baumholder was the seat of this “leftover” district. This situation persisted until 1937 when St. Wendel-Baumholder

722-654: The First World War , electricity came to Frauenberg, allowing many agate , gem and diamond cutters to set up their workshops at home. The upshot from the First World War, of course, was the Treaty of Versailles , which stipulated, among other things, that 26 of the Sankt Wendel district's 94 municipalities – including the like-named district seat but not including Frauenberg – had to be ceded to

760-500: The 14 Ortsgemeinden in the Verbandsgemeinde of Baumholder. Unlike other municipalities in the Verbandsgemeinde , Frauenberg's population has undergone steady growth since the war, rising from 356 in 1950 to some 500 in 1986. This owes itself mainly to relatively strong activity in the building sector beginning in 1972 and the municipality's favourable location only 7 km from Idar-Oberstein. In 1979, Frauenberg brought

798-514: The Frauenberg area as early as 500 BC or thereabouts. On the Nahekopf (a hill overlooking Frauenberg) once stood a Celtic ringwall , and it is said that the castle itself was built on the ruins of a Roman fort. About 1330, Frauenberg had its first documentary mention. It was in this year that Countess Loretta (or Lauretta) von Sponheim moved into the Frauenburg; the castle served her as

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836-569: The cape was called the capella and the priests who said daily Mass in the tent were known as the capellani . From these words, via Old French , we get the names "chapel" and "chaplain". The word also appears in the Irish language (Gaelic) in the Middle Ages , as Welsh people came with the Norman and Old English invaders to the island of Ireland. While the traditional Irish word for church

874-456: The celebration of services, particularly the Mass, which is not a parish church. This may be a private chapel, for the use of one person or a select group (a bishop's private chapel, or the chapel of a convent, for instance); a semi-public oratory, which is partially available to the general public (a seminary chapel that welcomes visitors to services, for instance); or a public oratory (for instance,

912-473: The early 1970s been unknown in Frauenberg. The loss of a great deal of farmland to the military reserve in the time of the Third Reich and the rather vast proportion of the municipal area (roughly 65%) covered by forest have not favoured agriculture. Chapel A chapel (from Latin : cappella , a diminutive of cappa , meaning "little cape") is a Christian place of prayer and worship that

950-514: The east on the Baumholder military reserve. In early historical times, a road from Ausweiler – a now vanished village that was evacuated to make way for the military reserve in 1937 – passed by the Frauenburg ( castle ) and through the Nahe, running by way of Oberbrombach , Siesbach and Allenbach to the Moselle . Archaeological finds have established that there was a human presence in

988-528: The first modern biological sewage treatment plant in the Verbandsgemeinde into service. The village's expansion also occasioned the updating of sewerage with new, bigger pipes. The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. Frauenberg's mayor since April 2023 is Karl-Heinz Thom. The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per bend sinister chequy gules and argent and vert issuant from base

1026-628: The north runs Bundesstraße 41 and to the south runs the Autobahn A ;62 ( Kaiserslautern – Trier ). There is a railway station on the Nahe Valley Railway ( Bingen – Saarbrücken ) in Idar-Oberstein. The jewellery industry is still an important sector of the municipality's economy, subject though it may be to structural changes to which small and family-run operations have fallen victim. Agriculture has since

1064-478: The northern industrial towns of the late 18th and 19th centuries, and centres of population close to but outside the City of London . As a result, "chapel" is sometimes used as an adjective in England and Wales to describe members of such churches: for example in the sentence, "I'm Chapel." While the word chapel is not exclusively limited to Christian terminology, it is most often found in that context. Nonetheless,

1102-799: The opening of the Nahe Valley Railway ( Bingen – Saarbrücken ) in 1860 – single-tracked until 1882 – came transport links for the first time between the Nahe Valley and both the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region and the Saarland . In 1880, Sonnenberg station came into service, whereupon many Frauenbergers found work in Idar-Oberstein, the Saarland and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region. This also brought about population growth: by 1910 there were 51 families. After

1140-539: The rise in Nonconformist chapels during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, by the time of the 1851 census , more people attended the independent chapels than attended the state religion's Anglican churches. (The Anglican Church does not function as the established church in Scotland.) In Roman Catholic Church canon law, a chapel, technically called an " oratory ", is a building or part thereof dedicated to

1178-550: The two sister villages in two separate states and made the river Nahe, which at the time the two new villages had been established had been designated the municipal boundary, into a border . In 1834, Frauenberg became Prussian . Economic progress in the village came only with the onset of the Industrial Revolution . Sometime around 1850, the two grinding mills on the river Nahe west of the village came into being, but these were torn down between 1931 and 1935. With

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1216-767: The word's meaning can vary by denomination, and non-denominational chapels (sometimes called "meditation rooms") can be found in many hospitals, airports, and even the United Nations headquarters . Chapels can also be found for worship in Judaism . "Chapel" is in particularly common usage in the United Kingdom , and especially in Wales , for Nonconformist places of worship; and in Scotland and Ireland for Roman Catholic churches. In England and Wales, due to

1254-427: Was eaglais (derived from ecclesia ), a new word, séipéal (from cappella ), came into usage. In British history, "chapel" or " meeting house " were formerly the standard designations for church buildings belonging to independent or Nonconformist religious societies and their members. They were particularly associated with the pre-eminence of independent religious practice in rural parts of England and Wales,

1292-431: Was done by drawing lots . Farm lots were measured and pegged out. At Neu-Frauenberg, each one measured 4 × 4 Ruten , while at Sonnenberg they measured 10 × 4 Ruten , a Rute being the local version of the linear rood ; a square Rute at that time ranged from 32 to 39 m . The new arrangement's consequences were that they only slowly recovered and began growing, and poverty and hardship reigned for

1330-500: Was living in Tal-Frauenberg. The Niederbrombach church book mentioned in 1673 that French soldiers had attacked the castle, where inhabitants of surrounding villages had sought refuge. Several men were apparently killed. It is furthermore likely that the castle itself was heavily damaged in this attack. In 1682, there were once again people living in Tal-Frauenberg, although it was only three families. In 1761, Tal-Frauenberg

1368-501: Was merged with the Oldenburg territory of Birkenfeld to form today's Birkenfeld district. With this, Sonnenberg and Frauenberg were once again united under the name Birkenfeld, as they had once been centuries earlier. In 1938, Frauenberg lost roughly 40 ha of its municipal area to the new military reserve. The municipality of Frauenberg originally belonged to the Amt administration of Baumholder, but since 1969, it has been one of

1406-511: Was still a soldier, he cut his military cloak in half to give part to a beggar in need. The other half he wore over his shoulders as a "small cape" ( Latin : cappella ). The beggar, the stories claim, was Christ in disguise, and Martin experienced a conversion of heart, becoming first a monk, then abbot, then bishop. This cape came into the possession of the Frankish kings, and they kept the relic with them as they did battle. The tent which kept

1444-720: Was stricken by a great flood , brought on by several heavy storms. The flooding destroyed most of the houses and made the ones it left standing unfit for use. The population by this time was made up of 20 families – some 100 persons, who were now all homeless. Thus it was that the Hochfürstlich Sponheimische Gemeinschaftliche Regierung (the Sponheim government) at Trarbach decided to found two new villages. A group of 11 families were to be settled in Neu-Frauenberg ( neu

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