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GERMANY, [Wurtemberg,
Monßmm, Munklingen, Refiningen, Rutmarßeim or Rutheßeim, Schockinge?},
and Wannbronn.
6. The town and diftrict of Göppingen, containing
Göppingen, a town, fituate in a delightful plain on the river Fih, with
a ducal feat in it, and a fpecial-fuperintendency. Before the reformation,
this town contained a cathedral, and at prefcnt has a manufactory of filkftuffs.
Probably the town belonged anciently to the Barons of Stauffen,
and was taken from them either by Count Ulrich or Rberhard of Wurtemherg.
In the year 1425 it was demolifhed by fire. In 1 5 19 the
Swabian confederacy made ihemfelves maflers of it ; and in 1643 the Ba-
•varian General yohn Von IVerth. Not far from the town lies the excellent
mineral fpring of Schwalbrunn.
The diftridt of Göppingen comprehends feventeen pariflies, namely,
Alberßjaufen, Betzgenrictb, Boll, near which is a mineral fpring ; Eberfpacb,
Faurndau or Faiirdnau, which, before the Reformation, contained a
cathedral ; Ganjzlofen, Gruibingcn, whence the above-mentioned town of
Grmbingau took its name ; Hattenhofen, and Hochdorf.
Hoben- St auff'en, a parochial village, in which was the family feat of the
houfe oi Hohen- Stauffen belonging to the dutchyof Sivabia and the Empire,
and at firft named Stophe, or Stoyphe. In the year 1525 this palace was
deflroyed by the peafants.
Heiningen, a parochial village, on which the Emperor Frederick III.
conferred the privileges of a town, but with httle benefit to it.
Holzheim, Reichenbach, Schlath, Schlierbach, Uhingen or Uwingen, and
Wangen.
Hohenftatt, a village, belonging partly to this amt or bailiwick, and lying
beyond Wicjenjteig on the Alb, the higheft part of which is faid to be
hereabouts.
7. The town and diftrid: oi Urach, containing
Urach,, a little town, fituate on the Alb, in a valley near the river Erms,
in which is a ducal feat, and a fpecial fuperintendency. In this place alfo
was formerly an abbey and a chartreux. Conliderable quantities of damafk
and other linens made here are exported by the Urach company. This
town is the capital of the ancient earldom of the fame name. One of
the oldefl: counts of Urach whom we know with any degree of certainty
is Gerhard, who died bifhop of Spire in the year mo. Count Henry of
Furftenbsrg inherited the caftle and earldom of Urach by his mother,
and in 1254, exchanged one half of it, together with the caflle, with
the count of Wurtemberg for one half of Wittlingen. In the year 1260
Count Berthold of Urach (in whom and his brother Rudolph this family
became extinct) left the other half of this earldom to this count Ulrich,
in the poffeffion of which he was confirmed by King Richard, and the
remaining part was purchafed by this Count, in the year 1265, of Count
Henrys