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U. Yfenbiirg.] GERMAN
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Hayn-zur Dreyeichen, or im Hayt?, a little town, feated about three
hours from Frankfort. Its caftle was formerly called Hagen, and was the
refidence of the lords of Hagen, who afterwards, in the year 1 1
74, removing
to Munz.enberg, afllimed the title. This place is the centre of the
old Imperial forefl: o^ Dreyeichen, in which the ancient Emperors ufed frequently
to hunt. It formed a confiderable parcel of the Imperial demefnes
about the Rhine and Mayn, and comprehended within its circuit a great
part of the Rheiiigau. The places in it, which ftill pay the fees for the
Dreyeichcr chace, being in ancient records and narratives placed in the Pagus
Rheinenjis. It alfo included a large part of the ancient Mayngau and
Niedgau ; and within it, at prefent, lye the woods of Bieg, Rüder, Diepurg
and the marcs of Anheim, as alfo the villages in them, which pay their
yearly hunting-tax to the foreft-offices at i)ri?}r/VZ)f;/, belonging to the two
lordihips oi Ifenburg and Hanau. With refpedt to the ancient fuperintendency
at Hagen or Munzenbcrg, or the patronage over the Imperial foreft of
Dreyeichen, on the extindlion of the male line of the lords of Hagen or
Munzenbcrg, who had held it as a fief of the Empire, itdefcended all but one
fixth, which Hanau referved, to the houfe of Falkenftein, and afterwards
jointly to Sayn and Ifenburg ; but, in the year 1648, Count Lewis having
made an abfolute purchafc of the part of Sayn, which had been before
mortgaged to him, he procured the Emperor's patent as fole forrefter. This
country continues ftill, in a particular fenfe, to be termed Das Reich, i. e.
'
the Kingdom, or Empire.'
New-TJenburg, a new and regular built town, founded by a colony of
French Refugees.
Sprendlingen, or Sprengungen, a country-town.
Philips-Eich, the refidence of an appenaged line of Ifenburg.
Geinßeim, a village, feated on the Rhine, the government or patronage
of which is lodged in the houfe of Ifenburg, but as a fief of the convent of
St. Jacob's-Berg at Menfz.
77)e Lim of the Counts of Ifenburg-Budingcii.
To it belongs, i. The diftridl of Büdingen, containing
Büdingen, afmall town, but the capital of the whole county, which obtained
its charter in the year 1353. The palace here has a fine parterre,
contiguous to which is the orphan-houfe, in which a woollen manufacture
is carried on. The free-fchool here was founded in the year 1606 by Count
Wolfgang Erneß. Exclufive too of the new fuburb, without the town lies
alfo a place called
Great-Dorf, in which is an ennobling manfion-houfe, and not far from
it a feat with a park for deer, and falt-works. In its neighbourhood alfo grows
a good fort of wine.
Vol. V. R Hernhag,