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Rhinegraves.] GERMANY, 125
The Line of the Counts of Grumbach, pojfeffes,
1. The lordihip and prefedurate of Grimihach on the river Glan^ which
runs into the Nahe. In this territory are found amethyfts, agate, cornelians
and mocha-ftones.
Grumbach^ the capital, is a municipal town feated in a valley not far
from Lautereck, and above it on a rock is the refidentiary feat of the line of
Grumbach.
Sulzbach is a village in it, and the place of interment of the Grumbach
family.
2. Of the eftate of the late line of Kirburg, the houfe oi Grumbach,
purfuant to an act of partition made in 170 1, poffefles,
The lordfliip of T'roiieckc?!, or Dronccken, which lies on the Hunfrucky
conftituting a prefecturate of fourteen villages; two of which are Catholic
and twelve Lutheran. Its yearly produce is computed at about 2400 floäns.
In it we (hall take notice of 'Tro7iccke?2y a feat and village fituate on the rivulet
of 'Tron.
Talfang, a market town, in which the Lutheran vafTals of this lordfhip
have their church. The tythes of this place are payable to the abbey of
St. Maximin at 'Trier i, which has afligned one third to the convent of
St.
A/i?ie in Triers and the Romißj priefls of this town..
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I. The Rhinegraveate o( Stein, or as it is alio called the county of i?/vWgrafenßdn,
lying on the Nahe. In it is
Rheingrafenjlein, once the refidentiary caftle, and ilanding on a higlv
rock on the Nahe. It was formerly a very ftrong and formidable place,
but in the year 1688, the French, incenfed at the fi^mr^efs of the Rhinegrave
Frederick William, demoürtied it. Near this caftle formerly flood
the Affenßein, or Jpe-jlonc
Munßer-am-Stein, a fmall village lying between the caflle on the otherfide
of the Nahe, and containing falt-works.
Under, or Gau-Grefweiler, or (imply Grehweiler, feated near the little
river Appel, on the demolition of the caftle oi Rheingrajenftcin, became the
refidence of the IVild zx\6. Rhinegraves oi Stein, who in the year 1747 built
there a very (lately feat. This little place was endowed with fo many privileges
and fo greatly improved by the counts John, Charles Lewis, and
Charles Magnus, that it is now grown to a little town. In the year 1501,
the Palfgrave John purchafed three fourths of it from Frederick Derne, and
in 1553 fold it again to CarfiUus Beyer of Bellenhqfen, who alfo made a purchafe
of the other fourth from the familv oi Gronenberg, whofe defcendants
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