Frankenthal

Frankenthal is a town in southwestern Germany, in the territory of Rhineland-Palatinate. Frankenthal was first referenced in 772. In 1119 an Augustinian cloister was worked here, the remnants of which known, after the organizer, as the Erkenbertruine - still stand today in the town focus. In the second half of the 16th century, individuals from Flanders, mistreated for their religious convictions, settled in Frankenthal. They were innovative and aesthetic and conveyed monetary flourishing to the town. Some of them were significant rug weavers, gem specialists and craftsmen whose Frankenthaler Malerschule "Frankenthal school of painting" procured some distinction.

In 1577 the settlement was raised to the status of a town by the Count Palatine Johann Casimir. In 1938 the Jewish synagogue, worked in 1884, was scorched to the ground amid the Kristallnacht. In 1943 amid a besieging assault the focal point of the town was totally decimated. In 1945, toward the finish of World War II, its businesses in remnants, it was involved first by the Americans and after that by the French. From 1946 Frankenthal has been a piece of the government province of Rhineland-Palatinate. Today the town is again the site of some medium-sized businesses.