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4. The town and diftrid: of Schorndorf.
Schorndorfs a fmall but fortified town, fituate on the Rems, is faid to have
had the privilege of a town conferred on it in the year 1230 by the Emperor
Frederick II.
In the years 1538 and 1560 it was ftrengthened with additional
fortifications, in 1634 befieged and taken by the Imperialifts, and in 1646
by the French. In the year 1743 almoft one half of it was deflroyed by
fire. In this place is a fpecial-fuperintendency.
The bailiwick of SchomdorJ, contains eighteen pariflies, inz.
Beutelfpach, a borough, faid to have formerly enjoyed municipal privileges.
The old town, which flood on the Cappelherg, in its neighbourhood,
was the refidence of the ancient counts of V/urtemberg. The cathedral
flood formerly in this town, but in the year 1321 was removed
to Stuttgardt. In its church is the burial-place of the ancient counts of
Tf^urfemberg.
Aichelberg, a parochial village, belonging to the barons of Holz ;
Aichfchiejz, Aurbach, Baltmanliaeiler, Eiiderfpach, Gerad/letien, Great-Heppach,
Grunbach, Hegenlohe, Haiiberforonn, Hohengehren, Pluderhaujen, Ruderjhergs
Schnaith, Schornbach, Striimpfelbach, Winterbach : Of thefe Great-
Heppach is famed for wine.
5. The town and diftridl of Leonberg, containing
Leonbergy a little town lying not far from the rivulet of Glems. In it
is a ducal palace. This town is alfo the feat of a fpecial-fuperintendency.
In the year 1498 it fufl-'ered by fire. After the battle of Nordlingen, in
1635, when the Imperialifts had made themfelves mailers of all Wur~
tembergs the Emperor granted this town to General Gallas ; but by the
peace of Weftphalia it was reftored to the duke.
Of the diftridt oi Leonberg, which lies in the Old Glemfgau, the greateft
part belonged to the earldom of Afperg, and was purchafed with it. It
comprifes feventeen pariflies,
iiiz.
Heimjheim, or Heimjen, a very old little town, which the counts of JVurtemberg,
in the years 1443, 1456, and 1497, purchafed of the noble families
oi Neuneck, Stein, Gultlingen, Stadion, s.nd Stnalnftein; and of which
at laft, namely in the year 1687, the ducal houfe of Wurtemberg alfo exchanged
with the Marggrave Frederick the Great the fhare which the family
ol Gc7nmingen had held for fome centuries as a mortgage from the Marggrave
oi Baaden. In the year 1742 this town was granted as a fief to Count
William Frederick of Gravenitz, and on his renunciation was granted by
Duke Charles Alexander to his confort Maria Angiijta for her life. In the
thirty years war it was deftroyed by fire, and in 1692 and 1693 plundered
by the French. To it belongs
Peroufe, a parochial village of the induflrious Waldenßs.
The parochial villages of Ditzingen or l'itzingen^ Eltingen, Geberß:eim,
Gerungen, Heimerdingen, Hemmi?Jgen, Hirjchlanden, Hofingen, Malmjhcin,
B b 2 Mofijheim^