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Weingarten.] G E R M A N T,
Wetzlar his quota is one hundred and fixty-nine ruthlers, eight krultzers.
Several records, bearing date in the years 1 1 55, 1183, 1193, ^353> J433>
1453, 152 1, ^c. ihew that the Emperors took this abbey under their immediate
proteftion : hut I alio find the Erbrtuchfejfe oi IValdburg mentioned as
hereditary-governors and patrons of this abbey, by virtue of the counties of
Scheer and Friedberg, and likevvife that the abbeys invefted the Princes of
Furßenberg with the protedlion and criminal jurifdidion over the convent,
and that they actually exercifed the fame. Furthermore I find, that the
archdukes of y^///?;7rt alfo, in the years 1458 and 1605, received the convent
under their particular protedlion, and that it pays yearly eight tuns
of protedion-wine to the procurator's office of Swabia, though, in the year
1434 and 1487, it was, by the Emperors iS/^//>;«W and Fr^d'^r/V/^ rendered'
exempt from all contributions, fervices, patronage and defence of the procurators
of Sivdbia. The abbey is faid, by various occurrences to have
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lofl one third of its revenues. From its village-courts an appeal lies to its
State-court, thence to the abbot's chief court, and from thence ftill furtlier
to the Imperial-chamber. The mofl: remarkable places in it are
The convent of Salmmifweil, lying on the river Acl\ and faid, before
the unhappy conflagration in the year 1697, to have been one of the finefl
all Gefmanw
monafteries in
Around the convent lie the villages of Luctkirch, BertJiaiing, Pfoffenhofen,
Mimmenhaiifen and Seefeldc?2, together with feveral hamlets and leats.
At Maurach, on the lake of Veberlingen-, refides a juftice.
3. The manor of 0^".7^e';z, or Owingen, is environed with the diftridl of
the Imperial town of JJeberUrtgen.
4. The prefedurate of Bachhaupten lies betwixt the counties of Scheer,
Konigfeck, Heiligenberg and Sigmaringen, and contains in it the villages of
Bachhaupten, 0/irach, Eeinhart and feveral hamlets and feats.
5. The lordfhip and prefecflurate of Schctnelberg lies on the river Rifz,
between the territories of Biberach and Auftria,
The abbey has alfo a prefei5lurate-office at Stockach, with a pßeg-amt, or
flewartry, at XJlm-, dependent on which is alfo the v\\\?igQ oi ij?ider-Elchin'
gen, not far from the abbey ofthat name; z pßeg-amt at Ehingen, another
at Ueberlingen, a manor at Kirchbcrg, and farms at Moikirch and Coftanz.
WEINGARTEN.
T7je Abbey of
The BenediSiine abbey of Weingarten, which belongs to the cathedral
of Cofianz, ftands in the market-town of Altorf, being alfo furrounded by
the bailiwick of Altorf. In this market-town anciently flood a nunnery
of BenediSlines, which was founded in the eighth century by Count Ifen-
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