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c>4 GERMANY.
[Naflau-Saarbruck.
by Vunct George Aiiguftus, and embellifhed hyVv'\x\ct Charles, and at prefent
the ufiiai refidence of the Prince of Najjau-UJingen, Exclufive of its
delightful fituation this place is large and {lately.
Schierßeij], a church village ; its wine is held in great repute.
producing alfo good wine.
Nimberg, a manor of the Princes ;
Mosbach,
a large village.
Dotzheim, Erbenheim, Berßatt, Kloppenhei7n, Naiiroth, all large church villages.
Sonnc-nberg,
a large village with a caftle lying in ruins.
Clarcnthal, a manor-houfe belonging to the Prince; but originally a
nunnery.
5. Apart 0? the. Ziveyherrifchen.
6. A part of the parifli of Kirdorf.
7. A part of the prefedlurate of Nassau;
8 .
A
part of the Fierherrifchen.
Obf. The Vierherrijchen, of which mention has been more than once
made before, is a territory belonging feparately to Naßau-Ujingen, NaJJ'au-
V/cilhiirg, and Hcße-Darinftadt. It lies north of, and partly within, the
lower county o^ Katzenellnbogen, confifting of feveral villages and farms.
i). The lurdfliip of Lahr or Lohr in the Ortenau. Henry von Gerolfeck, •
lord of Lahr, dying in the year 1426 without male heirs, this lordflfip devolved
to John count of Mors and Saariverden, who married his heirefs
jddelheida-, and on the failure of that line defcended, by means of Catharifie
he'nek of Saar'werden, to Count ^15^/2 Lewis of Najj'au; but it was
afterwards claimed by Gangolf and Walther, another branch of the lords of
Gerolfeck, and after a procefs carried on from the year 1532 to 1625, the
contefting parties agreed that Count Lewis of NaJJdu fliould hold the lordfhip
for himfelf and his heirs ; but that on the other hand he fhould difcharge
a debt of 24,000 florins due to the Margrave of Baade?i Hochberg; and
likewife pay to 'James lord of Hoheji-Gerolfeck and Suiz, who abfolutely renounced
all claim to it, 100,000 florins, exclufive of two other funis, for
which he ceded one half of the lordOiip of Lahr as a fecurity. This payment
devolved to Margrave Frederick V. of Baaden and Hochberg, as heir to
his wife, the 1 aft heirefs of Gfro/y^c^ ; and the intereft not being paid, the
Margrave, in the year 1659, on application to the Emperor, obtained an
order that he ihould be put in pofieffion of the lordfliip of Lahr as a fecurity
till fuch time as the intereft due on it, which had continued unpaid ever
fince the year 1654, fhould be difcharged. Accordingly Baaden-JDour/acb
held this lordfliip till the year 1726, when the houfe of Najau redeemed
it. The Princes of Baaden, however, ftill bear it in their title. In the divifion
of this lordfliip, it fell to Count John of Najjau-Idjlein, on the failure
ofwhofeline, it efcheated to iY