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Wurtemberg.]
GERMANY.
berg^ who, in the fourteenth century, took upon them the name oi Hummel;
and their caltle, wz. Lichtenbergs ftands not far from the town. This
caftle, the town of Botwar, and other places and eftates hereabouts, were
purchafed by Count Eberhard of Wurtemberg for 5600 pounds weight of
hellers. In the year 1642, the town was ill treated by Duke JVe\7}iar%
forces, and in 1693 by the Frra^'Z?. The country produces fine wine.
The diflrict o\ Botwar contains in it
the pariflies oi Little- Ajpach^ Little-
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Botwarcind Sckaubeck, a part of which belongs to the family of Gaisbe?g :indL
JVinzelhaiifeti, a fief belonging to the barons of Schutz.
32. The town and d'Avict of Tuttlingen. In it
Tuttlingen, or Duttlingen, a town feated without the boundaries of the
dutchy, near the eftate of Furjknbcrg on the Danu' :. In this town is a
fpecial fuperintendency. In the year 1334, it was a village and belonged
to the lordlliip of Wartenberg, but betwixt that year and 1372 was raifed
to a town, and in the lafl: mentioned year was fold by Ofzwald of Wartenberg
to Count Rudolph of Sulz. The exact time of its devolving to the
counts of Wurtemberg is not known, though that feems to have been before
the end of the fourteenth century, for in 141 3 it had belonged to them
for fome time.
Not far from it ftands the caftle of Lichten-Wartenberg. The caftle of
Honberg was entirely deftroyed in the thirty years war. About a quarter
of a German league from the town lies Ludwigßhal, noted for its iron manufaftory
eredled by Duke Eberhard Lewis, in which iron is both caft
and forged.
The diftridt of Tuttlingen has been enlarged with the lordfhips of
Lupfen, Karpfen and Falkenßein. A baron's family anciently took their
title from the lord (hip of Lupfen, who, when the earldom of StuUngen
fell to them, ftyled themfelves alio Counts of Lupfen and Stidingen ; but,
in the year 1582, this family became extindl. In the year 1437, Brun of
Lupfen fold the mountain and caftle of Lupfen, in Latin Lupodunum, together
with fome villages and eftates, to Henry and Rudolph of Fridingen ;
the latter of whom, in the year 1444, fold it a fecond time to Count
Lewis of Wurtemberg, to whom he alfo transferred the lordftiip of Karpfen.
The barons of Falkenßein, who are not to be confounded with thofe
feated in Alface, in the years 1444 and 1449, ^'^^^ ^^eir lordftiip of Falkenflein
to Count Lewis of Wurtemberg. The eight parifties of thisdiftridl
are
Aldingen, fituate on the Baar, Halfen ob Frona, Newhaufen ob Eck, Oefßngen,
Schwenningen, Thalheitn, Trofzingen and Thonningen. In an open
country near the parochial village of Schwenningen rifes the Neckar, where
it is immediately encreafed by fo many fprings that at a quarter of an hour's
diftance only it
drives a mill.
33. The town and diftriit of Dornhan. In it
Dornhartt