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2^8 GERMANY. [Klettgäu.-
^he Princely Landgravate of
Klettgau, örScHWARZENBEiiG, 0;? Wegen Sulz.
§. I. '"T^HE Klettgau, or Clettgow, which is alfo called K/eggau and K/ek'
-* gau, and in Latin Pagus Latobrigicus, is a trad of land bordering,
to the fouth, on the river Rhine-, to the eaft an-J north, on the Sivifs cantons
of Zurich and Schaffhatifen ; to the north- ,vert:, on the landgravate of
Stuhlingen, and, to the weft, terminates on the four foreft-towns. This
diftriö is fomevvhat above two leagues in length but not full two broad.
On account of its former poflefTor it bears alfo the name of Siilz, and by
fome is even called the county of Sulz, though improperly, the counts of
Sulz having formerly poffeffed only the landgravate o^ Klettgau, which was
raifed to a princely landgravate by the Emperor Leopold in the year 1694.
The Klettgau abounds in good wine, particularly red, as alfo in corn, and
is
a fine fporting country.
§.2. The ancient proprietors of this colintry ; namely, the counts of
Sulz, take their name from Suh, a town of Wurtemberg, fituate on the
Neckar, which belonged to them. So early as the year 10S5, we find
mention of one jil'wig, a count of Suh, probably the fame by whofe
liberality the convent of Alpirffach was founded. Rudolph, fon to Count
Hermann, retrieved the decline in his family by marrying XJrfula, daughter
to John, the laft count of Habsburg of the LauffenburgXmt, and with her
received for portion the landgravate oi Klettgau arid the lordfhips of Rothenburg
zwAKrcnkivgcn. This Prince alfo, in the year 1408, entered into a
compad: with his ftep-mother y^^7;fi, by virtue of which were transferred to
him and his father all the lands which flie inherited and poflelTed from her
hufband "John. In the year 1430, this agreement was confirmed by the
Emperor Sigifmund, on condition that the landgravate of A/rtV^^z.; fhould be
held as a fief of the arch-ducal houfe of ^i^nrt. Akvig, fon to Rudolph,
received for a portion with his wife Verena, daughter to Ulrich, lord of
Brandis, the lordOiips of Vadutz, Schelknberg and Blumeneck, and his
grand-nephew, Count Charles Lewis, obtained with his fpoufe, Dorotbey
Catherine, daughter to ^JoZ/Z', count. 0^ Say n, the lordlliips of Mow^V^r and
Mainzburg, or Manzenberg (already mentioned) but thefe lordftiips have
fince devolved to other houfes. In the year 1687, the male-ifi*ue of the
counts oi Sulz became extind in Count John Lewis-. But the Em.peror Leopold
hiving declared his eldeft daughter, Maria Anita, wife to Prince Ferditjafhi
IFilliam Eujebius of Scbwarzenberg capable of fucceeding to all the lands and
lordflips, together with the other rights and privileges which belonged to her
father, and of conveying thefe to the heirs of her body; the landgravate of
/ Klettgau