Abbot of Ebrach
Bartholomäus Fröwein was born in the Free City of Nürnberg and entered the Cistercian monastery of Ebrach between 1360 and 1370. He was chosen in 1426 by the Ebrach monks as their new Abbot. He was consecrated by the prelate of the daughter monastery of Heilsbronn.
The first Cistercian monastery in Germany was founded in 1127 by the Brothers Berno and Richwin (fränkische Edelfreie) in the wooded Ebrach valley of Upper Franconia between Bamberg and Würzburg.
Extensive donations of the Franconian nobility established the prosperity of the monastery. The Burggraf zu Nürnberg Friedrich III. and his son Johann I presented the monastery with various estates, as did Grafen Heinrich and Friedrich von Castell. Ludwig von Windheim gave his possessions at Burgwindheim to this monastery.
Most of the benefactors of the monastery found their final resting place within its walls. Other Houses of this monastery were in Schweinfurt, Rödelsee, Bamberg and Mainstockheim.
Bamberg estates about 1700 J.B. Homann