FRAUSTADT (Polish, IVschowa), a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Grenzmark, 5o m. S.S.W. of Posen by rail. Pop. 7,502. Cigars and bricks are manufactured and trade is in corn and cattle. Fraustadt was founded by Silesians in 1348, and afterwards belonged to the principality of Glogau.