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^42 GERMANY. [Worms.
§.4, To this lordiliip belong
Bretzenhe'im, a caftle feated on the Avz^f, but in 1688 the greateft part
of it was deftroyed by the French.
Wtnzeiiheim, a village lying not far from Kreutzamcb.
The villages of Kireckenbach and Breidmbach near fValknßein, and the
Wagenßadt near Lebcrwajigen.
The Lordßjip
•j/'Dachstul
Lies betwixt the prefedlurates of Sarburg and Gr'imburg, which belong
to "Trier, and the German prefedurate in the dutchy of Lorrain. It belonged
formerly to the lords oi Falkenßein, of whom it was purchafed in the
year 1644 by Philip Chrißop! er, of the family of Sotern and Eledtor of
Trier, who transferred it to his family as a fidei commijfum. By Maria
Sidonia, heirefs to her father Count Philip Francis of Sotern, this lordfhip
devolved to her hufband Notger William, count of Oettingen-Baldern. It
confers the title of vogt in the Diet of the Circle, but not in that of the
Empire, Its affelTment in the Imperial matricula is one horfe and one footnian,
or fixteen florins j and to the chamber oi Wetzlar ten rix-doUars feventy-three
kruitzers.
The L,07'dßdip ö/'Olleruck
Lies in the upper part of the archbifhopric of Cullen betwixt the prefedturates
oi Andernach and Konigsfeld, and belongs to the houfe of the barons of
Waldbott-Bajfetiheijn of Ollbruck-Bamheim, but forms however no ftate of
the empire, and on this account its vote at the Diet of the Vpfer Rhine, by
virtue of this lordfiup, has been contefted and denied by other States, infomuch
that it never obtained a formal affent. This lordfliip, howevqr, is
thought worthy of being rated in the tnatricula of the Empire at one horfe
and one footman, or fixteen florins ; and to the chamber at Wetzlar is taxed
m feventeen rix-doUars forty-five kruitzers.
The Imperial City of Worms.
Worms, in Latin Wormatia, and in the middle ages named Giiarmacia
and Gormetia, as alfo Vangojiia ; and by Marcellinns, Vangio ; by Antoninus,
Bormitomagus ; and by Ptolemy, Borbetomagiis ; was the capital town of the
Vangiones. It lies in the heart of the diocefe to which it gives name, not
far from the Rhine, and near the place where the Eisbach and Gießenbach
fall into it. This city has undergone many misfortunes, for to omit its fires,
earthquakes and other calamities, in the year 407 it was deflroyed by the
Vandals, in the year 451 and 938 by the Hanns, in 891 by the Normans,
and