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2o8' GERMANY. [Wurtemberg.
of a fpecial fuperintendency. In the manufadtory here is made a good cloth,
as alfo damafk Hnen and marbled paper. In the years 1727 and 1730, the
principal ducal colleges were removed hither ivom Stultgardt, but in 1733,
on the deceafe of Duke Eberhard Leivis remanded them back again to
that place. Ludwigsht/rg is the ufual fummer refidence of the ducal court.
The diftrid of Ludwigsburg confifts of nine parilhes in the following
places ;
viz.
Aldingen, a market-town, which devolved as a vacant fief to the ducal
houfe in the year 1747.
Geyfzingen and Heiitingß^eim, two little market-towns.
Hoheneck, a village, having the privilege of a particular reprefentative at
the provincial Diet. Its wine excellent.
Eghßxim, Koniioeßheim, Ncxkar-Beyhingen, which is a noble place
Neckar-Weyhingen, Ofweyl and PJlugelJdcn.
II. The ducal lands under the management of the chamber of finances,
which are the proper eftates of the reigning duke, and mufl: not be confounded
with the demefnes. Thefe are as follows ; viz.
Gomaringen, a parifl:i, not far from the boundaries of the territory belonging
to the town of Reutlingen.
Marfcbalken- Zimmern, a parochial-village and caftle, fituate not far from
Donihan, and formerly a fief of the lords of Lupfen.
Winnenthal, a caftle lying not far from Wcimbcrg.
Stetteniii Kamßhdl, within the circle of the diftrid: of Schorndor-f, a parochial
village and caftle formerly belonging to the family of Tbetg, who
fold it, in the year 1443, to Count Ulrich of IFurtemberg. In 1508, this
village was bequeathed to the family of Thumbs of Neuburg, who ceded it
in 1645; but, in the year 1664, one half of it devolved to the duke of
WiTtemberg, and the other in 1666, Tiwkc Eberhard Lewis made a prefent
of to his confort. This place produces excellent wine, the heft kind of
which is from its colour called BrodivaJJer, or water which has had a toaft
in it.
Hohen Karpfen, an old caftle with a large eftate belonging to it within
the diftridl oi Tuttlingen, and, in the year 1444, purchafed by the counts
of Wurtemberg.
Gochffx'i?n, anciently Gofzpolzheim, Gofzbißeim, or Gcfa^boizheijn, a fmall
town, fituate on the river Craich, with a ducal palace in it. Formerly this
place belonged to the counts of Eberßein, who held it originally as a fief
of the Eleftor-palatine, but afterwards Duke Ulrich of Wurtemberg having,
in the war with the Palatinate, in the year 1504, made himfelf mafter
thereof, held it in the fame manner of the ducal houfe of Wurtemberg. The
male ifl"ae of that houfe failing in the year 1660, the lord-paramount
•granted the little town and other fiefs to Maria Eleonora, widow of the laft
Count Cafimir, who was alfo born countefs of Saarbnicken, and to her
daughter