Frauenberg Castle

Frauenberg Castle was built by the Lords of Bodman, who served as imperial ministerials of the Staufer dynasty and later became counts. It was modified several times. A lightning strike in 1307 caused a fire that claimed the lives of the comital family and other nobles. Only the one-year-old Johannes von Bodman survived when his wet nurse threw him out of a window in a cauldron. Following this tragedy, his grandfather erected a chapel with a priest's house on the site of the destroyed castle and donated it to the Cistercian monastery of Salem in 1308/09. The monastery then developed the complex into a convent. In 1515, construction work and a re-consecration took place, followed by renovations in 1610/11. During the secularization in 1806, the property returned to the possession of the comital family.