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30 GER M ANT. [Lemlngen.
Grnnßchlf, a pretty large town with flreight ftrects in it and handlbme
lioures. This place lies in a plain near a high mountain. In it are two
refidences belonging to the counts which were built fmce the decay of the
old Lcin'uigen feats, and called the Upper and Loivcr-Courts. The former
of thefc belongs to the George line, who rebuilt it quite anew. The latter,
of which the Chriflopher line is owner, was formerly an abbey, but purchafcd
of the abbot together with all its appurtenances, which at that time
were very confiderable. The ancient great church here is in the hands of
the Liiitheram. The Proteftantj, after much oppofition, have obtained permiillon
by confent of the tvfo lines and the burghers to build themfelves a
church ; and in 1673 the exercife of their religion was alfo granted to the
, 7?(?;;w« Catholics. In 1703 2i Capuchin convent was eredled jufl: without a
gate of the town. In the fuburl)s is an orphan-houfe, and to the town belongs
a large trad: of corn-land and vineyards, which with its markets and
fairs give it
a very thriving traffic.
Hunningen, anciently Monaßerium Hegenenfe^ and a convent of Aiigiißines,
lies in heininger vale, and ever fince the year 1450 has been called
Hayn. This convent was founded in the 12th century, and at the time of
the Reformation the Monks one and all voluntarily embraced Lutherani[m.
The Latin fchool here was brought to a period by the thirty years war.
The county-paüors and fchoolmafters are now paid out of the revenues of
the convent. To it belongs Neuhoj\ a neighbouring manfion-houfe, with
its grounds.
Wattenheim., a village mortgaged to the family of Bhimenkron.
The church-villages of Munchweiler and Gambach, which in the year
1705 Count Wiefer poffefled himfelf of under a pretext of their being allodial,
and which has occafioned a procefs before the aulic council.
Hoch-Speyer, a parochial village, of which only two thirds belong to the
joint-tenure, but the houfe of Leiningen-Hartefiburg, taking poffeffion of
them, a procefs commenced alfo for this part before the aulic council.
^cirnheim, a village held as a fief by the Me7-z family. To it belongs
the farm of Busbar,
or Eufdnveiler.
Obf The inhabitants of Rodejjbach were formerly fubjedl to Leiningen-
Weßerbicrg, but the Elector-palatine has affumed the fovereignty over them.
II.
The Chrifiopher line poflelles
Old-Leiningeny a caftle {landing on a high hill in the vale of Leiningen,
and which was deftroyed by the French. Beneath it in the vale lies a
church-village of the fame name.
Hertlingßanfen, a village, in which once was a nunnery, but it went to
ruin long before the Reformation.
The Hintere Gericht, as it is called, comprehending the church-villages
of Dieffenthal, Ebertßoeitn, and Wachenheim, in which is an old ruined
caftle and an ennobling manfion-houfe, together with the villages of Merteß:eim.