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Baaden.] GERMANY. 217
to the latter by his marriage with Maria Anna, a daughter of Adam
Francis Charles Prince of Schwarze?iberg, brought to his family the lordfliips
in Bohemia, defcribed in vol. iv. p. 88, 90, 92, 94.
§. 8, Baaden-Baaden in the college of Princes has one vote, but in feat
ranks with the other alternative Princes according to the ten ufual claufes,
though always with precedence to Baaden-Durlach and Baaden-Hochberg.
In the Circle of Swahia, by virtue of the upper marggravate, it has a vote
among the temporal Princes. The Marggraves of Baaden-Baaden and
Baaden-Durlach are alfo the chiefs of the fecond quarter of the Circle of
Sioabia. For this upper marggravate the Prince in the tnairicula of the
Empire is alTefled at twelve horfemen and twenty foot, or two hundred and
fixty-four florins ; and to the chamber of Wetzlar pays one hundred and
feventy-four florins, forty-four and a half rix-dollars.
§. 9. The principal colleges and offices of this Prince are the privycouncil,
the court of jufl:ice and treafury. His annual income, according
to Keyfzler, is 400,000 florins.
§. 10. The countries belonging to this principality are,
I. The upper marggravate of Baaden, which conhfl:s of the following
towns and diftridls, viz.
1
The united towns and diflirids of Raßatf. In it
Raßadt or Raßatt, the refidence of the Prince, and lying in a fine plain
called Raßadtheath near the river Murg, which, a little below it, fills into
the Rhine. The Marggrave Lewis William caufed it to be built with regularity
and elegance ; and had alfo begun a very fuperb palace here which
he intended for his refidence, but did not live to finifli it. Before thofe
improvements this place was but a village. In the year 17 14 a peace was
concluded here betwixt the Emperor and France.
Favorita, a feat ftanding about one hour's difiiance from Raßadt, and
built by the Marggrave Lewis William^ widow.
Kuppenheim, a little town feated on the river Murg.
2. The town and dliindioi Baaden. In it
Baaden, the capital of the upper marggravate, lies on the Oelbach
amidll: vineyards. Its name is derived from its celebrated hot-baths. In the
year 1688, this place was laid in aflies by the French^ at which time the
Prince's palace was alfo greatly damaged.
Lichtenthal, in Latin Lucida Vallis, a. nunnery of Cißercians, anciently
the place of interrment to the Marggraves.
3. The town and diftridl of Ettlingen, which is a fmall place fituate on
the river Alb. In it is
Daxlanden, a large village feated on the Rhine, the lad place, to the
north, of the upper marggravate.
4. The diftriit of Steinbach, which takes its name from
Steinbach, a little town.
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