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10 GERMANY. [Spire.
year 348 afllüed at a council at Cologfi. Mention is alfo made, that Da~
•rohert I. King of the Franks, in the beginning of the feventh century
eredled the biihopric of Spire, as it were of new, and appointed Athanafim
his chaplain, bifhop thereof.
§. 4. The arms of this bifliopric are a filver crofs in a blue field.
§.5. The bifliop of Spire is fubjedl to the archt'iiliop of Mentz. He is a
Prince of the Empire, and in the council of the Princes thereof has a feat
and voice on the fpiritual bench between the bifliops of Eichßatt and
Strasjhirg. At the Diets of the circle of the Upper Rhine he takes the fecond
place. His matricular evaluation is eighteen horfe and fixty foot, or
monthly four hundred and fifty-fix florins. To one chamber-term he gives,
on account of this bifhopric and the provoftfliip oi Weijfenburg, one hundred
and fixtv-nine rix-dollars eight kruitzers.
§. 6. The feat of the cathedral-church and chapter lies in the imperial
city of Spire. The highly worthy chapter thereof confifts of fourteen capitulars,
and of the Demicelli here there are thirteen.
§. 7. The regency, the epifcopal vicarfliip, the aulick jurifdidlion and
aulick chamber are its high colleges.
§. 8. To the bifliopric of Spire belong the following places, namely,
I. Philipsbiirg, a town and fort lying on the Rhine, and fprung out of
a borough, named Vdenheim, which Emich bifhop of Spire purchafed in
the year 13 16, oi Henry of Cologn, burgher of Spire. Bifhop Gerhard ohtained
permiflion of the Emperor Lewis to fortify this place with walls and
ditches, and bifliop Philip chofe it for his refidence, caufing it in the year
1618 to be fortified. But the combined Electors and Princes, particularly
the Eleftor-palatine Frederick V. as fuperior, together with the Margrave
of Baaden-JDur/ach, agreed at an aflembly fummoned at Heilbriin, to fend
thither 4000 horfe and foot, with 1200 pioneers, and the neceflary artillery,
who alfo on June t\\c 15th, 161 8, demanded and took pofl"eflion of the
place, and upon this razed all the fortifications thereof. But as the Eledor
Frederick was put under the ban, the bifhop of Spire, in the year 1623,
availed himfelf of this opportunity, to complete the fortifications, and
named the place Philipsburg, in honour of the Apoftle of that name. It
was fortified afterwards in a better and more regular.manner. The town,,
indeed, belongs to the bifliop of Spire, who has alfo an office here; but is
looked upon as a fort of the Empire, and accordingly a governor and commandant
are appointed here by it. In the year 1 714, at the aflembly of
the circle-aflbciation of Heilbron, it was agreed, that the circle of Franconia
fliould fufi^er its troops here to continue longer, or be relieved by an equal
number ; upon which the circle alfo appointed a Proteflant chaplain for the
Proteftant chuich of the garrifon in this place. At the peace of Miinßer of
1648, France obtained leave to keep a garrifon here, which privilege in the
year 1679, at the peace of Niemeguen, ceded to the Emperor. At the peace