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Wiirtemberg.] GERMANY.
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In the years 1415 and 1563 this place fufFered greatly by fire, and
in '1675 was wholly burnt down.
The diflricl of Dornßetten contains a mountain which is faid to abound
in ores ; as alio the five parities of Bayerßroun, Glatten, Griaithal, Pfalzgrafefiioeiler,
and Tiimlingcn. In this diftridt is likewife held, twice a ye-r,
a Waldgerkht or foreft-court of twelve judges who are chofen out of the
villages of Dieterßveiler, Bcfizhigen, Upper- and Under- Aach, Wif^Hnfv^eilety
Grandel, Under-Miifabach and Hal'wangen, but the prefident thereof is the
prefed: of Dornfletten.
21. The town and diflrift o^ Wmneiiden, fituate betwixt the towns and
diftrids of Backnaiig and Waiblingen, and containing
Winjienden, a fmall town, fold in the year 325, by Conrad oi Weinfferg
to Count Ulrich of Wurtemberg. In it anciently was a commandery of the
'Teutonic order, which, in the year 1665, they parted with to Duke Eberhard
III. for 48,000 florins, who converted the manfion belonging to the
commandery into a feat. In the year 1693, the town was laid in arties by
the French. In its neighbourhood once flood a caftle which was called
after its name.
The diftridl of Winnenden contains in it the parifhes of Bucch, Oppelfpohn
and Schioaickbeim.
22. The town and diftridl of Guglingen. In it
Gi/glingen, a fmall town, fituate on the river Zö^i?r, and formerly belonging
to the lords ofNeuffen, from whom it defcended to the counts of Ebertlein j
but the counts of Wurtemberg became proprietors of it in the fourteenth
century, and at prefent it is the feat of a fpecial fuperintendency of
Lutherans.
Within the difi:ri£l of Guglingen are fix parifiies ; namely, Frauenz-immern,
Hafner-Hajzlach, Kurnbach, (of which a half, or rather two thirds
belong to the houfe of Heffe-Cajfel) Ochjenbach, Pfaffenhofen and Weiler.
Near Kirpach, or Kirchbach, Duke Eberhard III. built him a feat with
a hunting-park belonging to it, which he flocked with divers kinds
of beafls.
23. The town and diflrid of Groningen. In it
Marggroningen, a town fituate on the river Glems, and the feat of a
fpecial fuperintendency. In the year 1295, this place was fold by the counts
Conrad and Eberhard to the Emperor Adolphus, on whofe deceafe it efcheated
to the Empire, and thus continued an Imperial town till the year 1332,
when the Emperor Lewis of Bavaria conferred it on Conrad of Scblußclberg
; who, as chief ftandard-bearer, had a great fhare in the viftory obtained
over Frederick of Aiiflria at the obflinate battle of Muhldorf, net far
from Ochlingen. This nobleman, in the year 1336, fold it to Ulrich, count
of Wurtemberg, for 6000 pounds weight of Hellers. The Emperor ratified
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