| Friedrich I. was born in 1372 at Cadolzburg. He was the first member of the House of Hohenzollern to rule the Margraviate of Brandenburg and in that capacity was known as Friedrich I. He was known as Friedrich VI as Burgrave of Nürnberg. He entered into the military service of Austria early and fought on the side of King Sigismund of Hungary. After he returned he divided the inheritance from his father with his brother Johann, who received Bayreuth while Friedrich kept Ansbach. Constant feuding, notably with the nobility of Brandenburg, occupied his life until he withdrew to his castle at Cadolzburg in 1425. An American bomb in World War Two burned the old Cadolzburg castle down to the walls. |
| The "Cadolzburger Altar" was created in Nürnberg around 1420/25 and donated as an altar for the church at Cadolzburg by Friedrich I., above, and his wife Elisabeth Wittelsbach. Two of its wings are now lost. It was badly restored in 1662 and moved from Cadolzburg, in return for a copy, to the Hohenzollern museum in the Monbijou Palace Museum in Berlin (later destroyed), then to the royal hunting lodge Schloss Grunewald. |
| The Church bears a cartouche with the monogram CWF for Carl Wilhelm Friedrich, the "Wild Margrave" of Ansbach, 1712-1757 |
| Evangelische Markgrafenkirche in Kadolzburg |
