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198 GERMANY. [Wurtemberg.
w'liole. In 1547 the Spaniards lived here at difcretlon, and, in 1638, the
ImperialißsaXü. The neighbourhood produces fome wine.
The diftriä: of Boblijigen enjoys a very fruitful foil and contains in it
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twelve pariflies ; namely, AydUngen, Dagerßjeim, Holzgerlingen, Magßatt^
Mochingen, or Maichingen, Mauren, belonging to the free barons of Scbertlin
;
OJlelßxim and Schonaich,
28. Sindelfingen, a little town, lying one fhort half German league from
Böblingen, in a very fruitful country. This place anciently belonged to the
counts of Crt/w, on the extindion of whom it defcended to Count Rudolph
of Tubingen. In the year 1263, from a village it was eredled into a town,
and the fame privileges as had been granted to Tubingen were given it in
1 274 by the Emperor Rudolph. A daughter of Götz, Pfalzgrave of Tubingen,
brought it as a portion to her hulband Ulrich of Rechberg, whofe
fon Ulrich the Tourger, fold it, in the year 1351, to the count oi Wurtemberg.
The abbey here was fecularifed after the Reformation.
29. The town and diftridt of Heubach. In it
Heubach, a mean little town, lying not far from the fource of the Refns,
betwixt the Imperial cities of Gmünd and Aalcn. This place belonged to
the Counts of Wurtemberg io long fince as the year 1360. On a high
mountain near it ftands the caftle of Kofenflein.
The diftridl of Heubach contains in it the parifhes of Lindach and Upper-
Babingcn. In fome hamlets here the Imperial town of Gmünd and other
lordfhips have the joint jurifdidtion,
and in others the former only.
30. The town and diflrict of Laufen. Belonging to it is
Laujf'en on the Neckar, a town fituate in a very fruitful pleafant country,
and containing alfo a fpecial jurifdiction. It is a very ancient place and was
formerly immediately fubject to the Empire. In the thirteenth century it
devolved to the Marggraves of Baaden, from whom it defcended, in the year
1346, to Albert Hofwart the younger, and after his deceafe the greatefl
part of it was firft purchafed of his father and brother by Count Eberhard
of Wurtemberg, who, in the year 1369, got the whole into his own hands.
The bridge built over the Neckar is the wideft and longefl in the whole
dutchy, and leads to the village of Lauffen, which lying oppofite to the
town is reckoned a part thereof, being even handfomer than it; and containing
the principal church, the clergy and moft of the officers of the juridical
courts refide herej but the feat of the jufticiary is in the caftle, which ftands
on a rock in the middle of the Neckar. Before the town lies a lake which
is accounted the largeft in the whole country.
The diftrict of Lauffen confifts of the parifhes ofGcmfnerigheim and Ihfclden,
31. The town and diftrict of Botwar, containing
Great-Botwar, a fmall town, fituate on the little rivulet of Botwar,
This place is very ancient, and formerly belonged to the barons of Lichtenberg,