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Hanau-Munz.] GERMANY, 109
part in the year 1684, now enjoys feren twelfths, and Stolberg-Roßa five.
This village is an Imperial fief.
The town and caftle of Rieneck and the village of Schaibach, in
the county of Riejttxk, one fourth of which is held by Hanau as a fief
of Mentz.
Geluhaiifen. a town, feated on the river Ki?izig, was formerly an Imperial
toV((nj but, in the year 1349, the Emperor Charles IV. mortgaged it to
Gt'mther, count of Schwarzburg. This mortgage Count Henry of Schivarzhurg
difpofed of, in the year 143 5, to the Eleftor-Palatine and Hanau ;
which transfer was confirmed by the Emperor Sigifmund'm the fame year,
and alfo by the Emperor Maximilian in the year 1499 the latter of whom
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further borrowed on this mortgage the fum of 6000 Rhenijh guilders of
Philip and Reijthard, counts of Hanau. This long mortgage of the town
afterwards gave rife to a difpute, whether it fiill continued an immediate
and free Imperial town. The Eledor-palatine and the counts of Hanau
urged their right to it as mortgagees and patrons ; notwithffcanding which,
in the year 1734, the Aulic Council declared the town immediate, but
without prejudice to the rights of the mortgagees j and accordingly, in the
year 1735,
it took' its feat and voted in the college of Imperial towns. On
this the mortgagees moved for a fecond hearing againft the fentence of the
Aulic Council ; but the town, already exhaufted by the length of the former
procefs, and other grievances, rather than run itfelf into frefli expences,
the ifilie of which was uncertain, in the time of the Emperor Charles VII.
fubmitted itfelf entirely to the two mortgagees j and, in 1746, Hefc-
Caßel, as proprietor of the county of Ha7iau-Mimze7iberg, purchafed the
Eledlor-palatine's part for 12,000 florins. The caftle near the town, which
is faid to have been ere(fled by the Emperor Frederick I. for his refidence
about the year 1 144, belongs to certain coheirs.
18. The fliare oi Hanau., in the Dreyicher Wildbann, is derived from the
Munzenberg inheritance, which, towards the middle of the thirteenth century,
on the failure of the male-line of Munzenberg, devolved to Hanau.,
by Adelheida, heirefs to Munzenberg. A further account of this Wildbann,
or chace, will occur under the county of Yjenburg, which holds it in common
with the county of Hanau.
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