Frohnlach is known, among other things, for its successful soccer club, the VfL Frohnlach.
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The first mention of Frohnlach was in the year 1260 when the founder of the Sonnefeld Monastery, Graf Count Henry II von Sonneberg, bought the village of “Otnandus de sleten” (from Kirchschletten near Zapfendorf).
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In 1532, the spread of the Reformation dissolved the Monastery, sending its properties, including Frohnlach, to the Protestant Electorate of Saxony.
Johann Stegner, the son of a construction worker, was born on 20 December 1866 in Frohnlach, District of Sonnefeld, in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha but he was raised in Scheuerfeld, then a village west of Coburg, in the same Duchy.
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Johann Stegner (20 December 1866, Frohnlach, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 7 January 1954, Coburg, Bavaria, West Germany) was a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Beginning with the former Bamberger fiefs of Sonnefeld, Frohnlach and Ebersdorf, the Monastery multiplied its possessions with other properties from Bamberg, the Banz Abbey and the Benedictine abbey of Saalfeld.