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Weiflenavi.] GERMANY, 2^1
Mod noble lord-prelate of the holy Roman Empire, and reigning lord of
the Imperial abbey of Roth. In the Diet of the Empire he pofleiles both a
feat and vote on the bench of Swabian prelates betwixt the abbots of
XJrfperg and Roggenhurg, and in that of the circle of Sivabia beween Rcggenburg
and Weijfenau. The aflelTment of the abbey in the matricuhi of
the Empire amounted to forty-four florins ; but, in the year 1683, ^'7 ^'i""-
tue of an Imperial decree, this was reduced to fifteen florins ; by which
the circle of S'wabia alfo regulated itfelf. To the katnmerziele it is rated at
fifty-four ruthlers, twelve kruitzers. In the year 1642, this abbey was under
a neceflity of felling its whole property in the church of Amend'mgev., together
with all its tythes and cafualties. To it at prefent belong
The villages of Berkheim and Haßach, with feveral hamlets and
manors.
WEISSENAU,
The Abbey of
The Vramonßratenßan abbey of Weijfenau^ in Latin Augia Alba, or Minderaii,
and Augia Miner, which belongs to the cathedral of Cojiduz, lies
on the river Sc/jufz, betwixt the bailiwick of Altorf, the city of Ravensburg
and the county of Montfort. It is faid to have been originally the feat of
fome Hermits, which, in the year 990, was raifed to a convent, in 1145
created a Rrcemonllratenjian ^^noxy, and, in the year 1257, an abbey. In
the year 1 164, the Emperor Frederick I. took the convent under his own
particular protedlion and that of the Empire. The dukes oi Swabia, of the
houfe of Hohenßauffcn, endowed it with feveral villages, hamlets, manors
and lands, granting to it many privileges which were confirmed not only
bvKing Rudolph in the year 1280, but alfo by fucceeding Kings and Emperors.
In 1376, in particular, the Emperor CharlesYV. took the convent
into the patronage of the Empire, exempting it from the jurifdidtion of the
provincial procurators of Upper-Swabia, to whom, however, it ftill pays annually
twenty bufliels of peas, one tun of wine and one pound of pepper, as
proteöion-money. The title of its abbot is. Mod noble lord-prelate of the
holy Roman Empire, lord of the Imperial foundation and abbey of JVciffenau.
In the Diet of the Empire he fits and votes on the bench of the
prelates of Sivabia betwixt the abbots of Roggenburg and Schuffejiried, and
in that of the circle of Swabia between the abbots of Roth and Schujfenried.
The aflcflment of the abbey in the Imperial matricula was formerly eighty
florins, but, in the year 1680, this was reduced to twenty-five florins. Its
rate to the chamber at Wetzlar is eighty-one ruthlers, fourteen kruitzers
and a half.
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