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Ellwangen.] GERMANY. 16^
1 1. The prefedurate of Oberdorf, fituate on the river Wcrtach. Belonging
to it
Oberdorfy
a market-town.
12. The prefedturate of Nesselwang, with the market-town of the
fame name.
13. FuESSEN, or Füssen, in Latin OppidumFaucenJe, ov Fiejfenfe, afmall
town, feated on the Lech, and alfo a frontier place and pafsto Bavaria and
the Tyrolefe. In it is a BenedicWie abbey and a convent of Francifcam %
but the town is more noted for the peace concluded there betwixt Außria
and Bavaria in the year 1745.
14. The prefedurate of Sonthofen, fituate on the river Her, which
receives its fource at the boundary of this bailiwick. Belonging to it
Sonthofen, or Sunthofen, a market-town.
Fluchenftein, Rettenberg, Hindlang, Oy or Au, and other places, together
with
Oberfdorf, a market-town.
Obf. I . The cathedral has acquired feveral lands and places which formerly
paid, or ftill pay tribute to the immediate noblefle of the quarter on
the Danube, as Ottilienberg, Altcnsbcrg, Sidzfcbmidt, Auten-ried, Anhofen,
Donau-Altheim, Lindau, Riebling, Sec. 2. In the T/Vo/f/^ it has a cuftomhoufe
^iLurx and a farm at Botzen. 3. Befides feveral village?, eflates and
efcheats which it would be too long here to enumerate.
ELLJVANGEN,
The Princely Priory of
§. I. 'TpHE lands of this priory are fituate on the frontiers of the Circle
*• of Franconia, betwixt the county of Oettingen, a part of the
dutchy of Wurtemberg and the Imperial city of Aalen, as alfo the county of
Limburg and the marquifate of Brandenburgh-Onohhach.
§. 2. Its foundation was firft eftabliflied in the year 764 as a convent of
Benedictines, afterwards as an abbey, and in 1460 and 1461, changed
into a temporal priory. Some are of opinion, that this foundation was declared
Princely fo early as the year 10 1 r, by the Emperor Heriry II. and that
this dignity was confirmed to it by the Emperor Charles IV. in the year 1347.
Others, on the contrary, aflert that it was not raifed to the Princely rank
till the year 1555, though from the Imperial votes of 1500, the priors of £//-
zvangen appear to have fat in the Diets among the Princes before that time.
Vol. V. Z §.3. The