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Frohnveste (Wirsberg Gatehouse)

Frohnveste (Wirsberg Gatehouse)

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Frohnveste (Wirsberg Gatehouse)

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Location: Wirsberg, Landkreis Kulmbach, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

May 31, 2026

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In 1901, the Wirsberger Torhaus with "Fronveste" on Hauptstraße, directly next to the Gatshof Hereth inn, was demolished. For 469 years, it had protected the most important traffic route through the market town and, if necessary, could also block it with a heavy wooden gate. Every stranger, every cart could be stopped and checked here. The gatehouse, built at the behest of Nuremberg burgrave Friedrich from fieldstones, also served as a residence for the lord's bailiff and as a prison. Today, the arched gallery below the town hall architecturally recalls the former gate to the market.

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Günter L.S.

May 30, 2026

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In 1432, Friedrich Burggraf von Nürnberg made the market rights conditional on the place being protected "with ditches and fortifications". The gatehouse with "Fronfeste" (prison) thus served to protect and block the most important traffic route through the market town. Every stranger and every wagon could be stopped and checked.

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Liesl und ich 🐕‍🦺🐾🌲

June 1, 2025

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The "Frohnveste", the gatehouse Wirsberg

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