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Wurtemberg.] GERMANY. i8g
Henry of Furßetiberg for three hundred and ten marks of filver. In
1473 all the counts of Wurtemberg, and in i486 the two Counts 'Eberhard
entered alfo into a convention here relative to the government of
the country. In the year 1634 the Imperialifts made themfclves mafters
of this town. Near it on the other fide lies the Erms.
Hohen-Vrach, a ftrong caflle ftanding on a mountain, and formerly pretty
•well fortified. In the year 1635 this caflle was obliged to furreadcr to the
Imperiaiifts after a
long fiege.
In the neighbourhood of the town of Urach are fome fine mills for lead, ,
iron, and paper.
In the diftrid of Vrach are feveral curiofities. Near the town of Urach
i's a beautiful white earth, which is faid to furpafs the terra figillata oi
Malta. At St. John's, Gutcrßcin, and Offcnhaujen, which were formerly
convent?, are fine ftuds of horfes. In a high and fiieep mountain, not far
from the town of Urach, is the famous Holzrutfche or wood-ßidc, whichconfifts
of one thick iron pipe, about three feet broad,, being on both fides
upwards of two feet high and about nine hundred long. This pipe begins
at the top of the mountain and reaches almoft down the valiey near
the town of Urach and the river Erms. Into its upper opening is put the
wood felled on the Alb and afterwards cut into billets, which being thus
carried down the pipe with prodigious celerity, is thrown into the Erms,.
which forwards it into the Neckar near Ten^lingen, and after this runs beyond
Nurttingen and Efzlingen to Berg near Stuttgardt, where it is at lafi:
flopped and piled up in the duke's wood-yards. In this manner every
year, about Eaßer, are brought from the Alb to Stuttgardt upwards of
9000 cords of wood, befides what ferves for the duke's court. Its produce is
applied to the payment of the ecclefiaftical and civil officers. To the diftrid
belong thirty parifhes, namely Bempßi?igen, Bernloch, Blietzhaufen,
Bohringen, Dettingen Under-Urach, which carries on a confiderable trade in
dried fruit ; Dofin/letten, Ehningen near Reutlingen, Erpßtigen, Fcldßctten.,.
Gechingen, Gomendingen, Gruorn, Haufen on the Lauchert, Hengen, Kohlßetten,
Magerkongen, Laichingen, on which the Emperor Charles IV. in
the year 1364, conferred the privileges of a town ; Metzingen under Urachy
Mittdßatt, Neuhaufen under Urach, Ohnaßetten, Seeburg, anciently a
fortified place ; Sondelßngen, Sontheim on the Alb, Steingebronn, Upßngen^
Wilhnandingen, Wittlingen, which anciently enjoyed the privileges of a town.;.
Wurtingen, and Zaimngen.
8. The town and diftridl oi Munßngen. In it
Munßngen, a fmall town, in which a convention was made in the year
1482 betwixt the Counts Eberhard \he elder and younger, relative to the
right of primogeniturefhip and the indivifibility of the Wurtemberg lands. It !S
not known with any degree of certainty whether this town anciendy belonged
to the borough of Wittlingen or the earldom of Urach. Li the year
1 1347