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Frauenburg or Marienburg were given to many towns in German-speaking countries in the Middle Ages. Because of its cathedral and the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, the most famous town with the German name Frauenburg is Frombork, Poland.
The names usually originate din the construction of a fortified (hence -burg) chapel, church, or monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Cities or parts of cities in Austria, Bavaria, and Hesse bear this name Frauenburg.
In Hesse, the Frauenburg is an abbey initially founded as a daughter house of the Abbey of Fulda. The Abbey and the Frauenburg were, however, constructed between the 8th and 10th centuries in what was at the time the region known as Thuringia.
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