A nunnery, a meadow, and a river are the namesakes of this district, which is located seven kilometers southwest of Erlangen in the valley of the Mittlere Aurach – a tributary of the Regnitz. The historic center boasts its former monastery church and its Welsche Haube (Welsh Hood), the neighboring Museum in Amtshausschüpfla, the partly exemplary restored half-timbered houses of the 17th and 18th centuries and the Aurach Bridge built in 1788.
Frauenaurach was first documented in 1271. The town and its history are closely linked to the Dominican monastery of Frauenaurach, whose heyday (1436 to 1451) is attributed to the reign of Abbess Elisabeth Auer. The monastery was plundered in the Peasants' War of 1525 and completely destroyed in the Second Margrave War of 1553. The monastery church was rebuilt in 1586/88.
In 1778, the village consisted of 62 properties. In 1894, the town was connected to the Erlangen-Herzogenaurach local railway. After 1945, the population increased from 1465 in 1946 to 3.055 in 1970 due to the influx of displaced persons. After the completion of the motorway to Würzburg in 1962, the first industrial park was established, followed by the construction of the Franconia power plant from 1964 to 1966.
Only the remains of the convent buildings surrounding the cloister, which once bordered the south (on the site of today's cemetery), remain. The monastery mill and the former brewery are still evidence of the former private economy in the spacious monastery grounds, which form the old town center.
The incorporation into Erlangen with a municipal area of 5,49 square kilometers took place in 1972. Today, 3.280 inhabitants live here (as of 2002).
