Frauensee Castle was built between 1632 and 1634 by Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel. It stands on the grounds of the old Cistercian monastery Frauentalsee, which was once on an island in the lake.
Today, the castle, which is well worth seeing, houses the local museum of local history.

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The Frauensee monastery was an abbey of the Cistercian nuns in Frauensee, a district of the town of Bad Salzungen in the Thuringian Wartburg district.

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