Trogen

Trogen is nestled between hills in a valley.
The Town is located about six kilometers northeast of the county seat Hof on the Bundesautobahn 72 , and Bundesautobahn 93 and the federal highway B173.
The community is located in the Bayerischen Vogtland, belongs to the district Landkreis Hof and thus also to Region of Hochfranken.
The neighboring village Feilitzsch is only a few hundred meters away from Trogen.

The first documentary mention of Trogen dates from December 21, 1306. The later Margrave of Kulmbach-Bayreuth were since 1373 rulers in Trogen.
In Trogen were three knight seats were in the possession of the Counts of Reuss, the Margrave of Kulmbach-Bayreuth and Kursachsen.
As a part of the 1792 Prussian Principality of Bayreuth Trogen fell in the Treaties of Tilsit in 1807 to France and came in 1810 to Bavaria. As part of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, the municipality of today was founded with the community edict of 1818.

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