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hirg had for its particular fliare tlic villages of Lufzelinden, Hcfnß.eim, Hocheiiim,
Lower-Kkef7, Dombolzhaujen, and Rechtenbach. Prince 'John I.
cx>\xx\X.oi Naljaii, obtained this prefedturate with his firfb vvife.
7, The prefectiirate of Gleiberg defcended likewife to the fame Prince
after the fame m;mner. In it is
Gleiberg or Gieiburg^ a large village, containing a feat.
Krofdorf Salzbote}!, and other villages.
2. The large country town of Reichelßmm, fituate on the river Horlof,'
not far from the prefedlurate of Bingenheim, belongs to HeJfe-'Darmjladt.
This town lies in the marc of iv//^Ä?, forming a fief thereof. It was an--
iiexed to the houfe of Naffhu by Count Philip V. and the yearly income of
this place is about 3000 florins.
3. A part of the par illi of Kirdorf.
4. A part of the prefefturate of Nassau, which one year with anotiier,
is reckoned to bring in 4500 florins.
5. A part of the Vierhen-ifch.
6. Naßau-Weilbiirg, and Nnff'au-Tdßein or Ußngeii, jointly poflefs in the
Wetterau, the Zijoeyherj-ifche, as it is called, to which belong the villages of
Mylen or Muhlcft on the Muhlhach , as alfo Enlighoß-n or Edighofe??, Lypon?,
Strut, JFelterty Rudlen farm and Schonau, which laft was tormerly a convent
of BenediBines.
7. The lordfhip of Kirchheim and Stai/ßWes on the high ridge of mountains
called Don?2ersberg, running betwixt the prefeclurates of Alzey and
Lautem, and the counties of JL«;z///_g"('« and Falkenflein. It is planted with
oak, beach, and cheftnut-trees. This prefefturate was annexed to it by
Philip I. and confifts of the prefecfturates of Kirchheim and Stauff, containing,
exclufive of twenty villages, the following places, i7.s.
Kirchheim-Pohvid, a fmall town, and the feat of a prefedturate. In its
neighbourhood fliood Poland-hoiij'e, now a farm.
Heuberg, a manor near the preceding town, part of the revenues of
which were in the year 1686, fold by the owner Chrißophcr "John von
Friefenhaufen to Lewis William, baron of Stauff, who in ijco again difpofed
of them to Count John Rrnfl, of Naßuu JVcilbwg, who in the
year 1706 purchafed of the barons of Stauff the whole manor, together
with the little efl:ate of Bifcheim.
Rotheukirchen, which is a fequefl:rated convent.
Dannßeh on Donnenberg ; having abundance of cheftnut-trees in its
neighbourhood.
Stauff,
a prefedurate and feat.
Gellheiw, formerly Gillenheim or Gellenheim, a country town, celebrated
in hiftory for the vidlory gained there in the year 1298, by Albert o\
Auflria over Adolphus of Naßau, who lofing his life on the fpot, was
hafliily interred in the then neighbouring convent of Roßnthal. A monu-
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ment,