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Gengenbach.] GERMANY,
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Bavaria to the counts of Emerkinge?!, and from them, in the year j''0'J
to the dukes of ^////r/rt ; but the dukes o{ Wiirtemherg have maintained
that the right of protecftion to the abbey defcended to them, as it lies in the
territories of Count Achalm, whofe country fell to them. They have aUb
aftually exercifed protection, patronage, purveyance and territorial jurifdiction
over it, fo that it is not fummoned to the Diet of the circle ofSwabia,
neither does it fend a reprefentative to the Imperial Diet ; but, in the year
175 1, it freed itlelf from this connexion with the dukes of Wurtember^^
by ceding to them the three villages of Gr^^/-£;2,/?/?zg-f«, Oedenwald/fctten and
Neuhaiijen, with certain cafualties. The title of its abbot is. Mod noble
lord-prelate of the holy Roman Empire, and reigning lord of the Imperial
foundation and abbey of Zwifalten. In the Diet of the Empire he fits on
the bench of the Swabian prelates between the prior of Weitenbaujen and
the abbot of Gengenbach, and in that of the circle of Swabia has the fame
place. His afTeflment in the w^/rzWß of theEmpireis florins, and
to a kammerziele he contributes forty ruthlers.
The convent itfelf lies in a valley at the foot of the Alb on two rivulets
called the Jkb; accordingly the place where it ftands, but which was pulled
down at the time of its foundation, was called Zivifaltach, in Latin DupUces
Aquce.
The villages belonging to this abbey are Aichenlau, Aichßetten, Bechi?i~
gen, DegefeU, Durrenwaldßetten, Ehjletten, Emeringefi, Geifzifigen, Hobenberg,
Itienbaiifcn, Kircbheim, Mozingen, Oberßetten, Pjraimlletten, Tatigendorf,
Upfelmebr and Wilfmgen.
The lordfliip of Reicbenßein was purchafed in the year 1499, and
includes in it the caftle of Reicbenßein with the villages of Thalheim and
Lauteren.
The caftle of MochenthaU anciently called alfo Opeutbal, was, in the
year 1192, conferred on the convent by the counts of Berg. In it is
a chapel.
Obf In the Auftrian town of Ehingen this abbey has had a college or
academy ever fince the year 1686, and in the Turgau pofleffes the houfe of
Middk-Gyrsberg, or Gierjperg, which was purchafed in 1679.
Abbey of
GENGENBACH.
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The BenediSiine abbey of Gengenbach lies in the Imperial town of that
name, and belongs to .the cathedral of Strafzbwg. It is faid to have been
founded about the year 740. The title of its abbot is mofl noble lordprelate
of the holy Roman Empire, of the Imperial foundation and abbey
of Ge?igenbach, and lord of Ryfz. In the Diet of the Empire he enjoys
both