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230 GERMANY. [Thengen.
the adminlftration of a high-fteward, or prefeft, appointed by the abbey»
and contains
Strafzberg, a fmall town and caftle fituate on the Scbf^icb.
The villages of Frohnßetten and Kayferwgen, together with the glafsmanufaöory.
In the towns oii\\tSulgau and Mengen, though belonging to Außria, it
poflefTes the advowfon of the parifhes, befides certain rights and cafualties,
for which it maintains a bailiff" in each of thofe places. It prefents alfo to
the pari(hes of Durnau, Ertingen, Kanzach, Bitzweiler, Mietingen. Braunenweiler,
Uigendorf, Ogeljpeyren, RenhardJ'cJpweiler and Morbach ; all which
lie in the neighbourhood of Buchau.
l^he
Princely-County of
1* H E N G E N.
§. I. T lES in the Hegau, betwixt the landgravate of Baar, belonging to
the Prince of Furßenberg, Bhimenfeld, a manor of the Teutonic
order, and the Siviß canton of Schaffhaufen. This lordfhip the Emperor
Charles V. purchafed for himfelf in the name of his brother the Archduke
Ferdinand, inthe year 1 542, of Chrijiopher Count of Thengen, for 83 10
florins ; and it was annexed to the landgravate of Neuenbürg : but the
Emperor Ferdifiand III. transferred it to the younger branch of the line
of Pancrace of the noble family of Aversberg, or Aursberg, under the title
of an immediate Imperial princely county. John Weichard, firft Prince of
Aursberg, was, in the year 1654, admitted into the college of Princes;
and, in 1665, by virtue oi Thengen, into the bench of Lay-princes in the
Diet of the circle of Swabia \ and in the Imperial matricula fubfcribed to
an affeffrnent of feventy-fix florins ; but the family faihng in their payment
of the fubfidiesof the circle, in the year 1698 were deprived of their vote;
upon which it came to a compromife, and Aursberg promifed to pay yearly
to the circle 1 500 florins. Its contingency to the chamber of Wetzlar is
fifty-fix rixdollars. The title of the reigning Prince is Duke of Munflerberg
and Frankenßein, princely count of Thengen and Mitterburg, high
hereditary-mardial and hereditary-treafurer in the dutchy of Carinthia and
the marquifate of Wind.
§.2. The princely-county of Thengen is under the diredion ofaPrefedt,
or lord-lieutenanr, of the Prince's nomination, and contains in it
Thengen, a fmall town, having no feat.
The villages of T/6r«g-t?«, Utenhofen^ Althaven znA Endeburg.
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