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268 GERMANY. [Scheer-Scheer,
together with its upper and lower jurifdiftion belongs to the counts of
Wolff'egg, feme hamlets and farms excepted which lie among the lands
of the diftri(fl, and are fubjeä: alfo to its upper jurifdidion. In it is
Waldbürg, a village and caftle, ftanding on a hill, and the original feat
of the houfe of Truchfefz.
The villages of Upper-Edensbach, and Schregsberg, with feveral hamlets
and parcels of land, all fubjedl to the lower jurifdidlion of the count; the
upper jurifdidion thereof belonging to the jufticiary of the diftridt.
III. The lordihip of Kijzkgg lying betwixt the above diftri(S, the counties
of Zeil and Wolff'egg, and the lordfliip of Egloff; but a part of it
belongs alfo to the Trauchburg line. Near the caftle of Kifzkgg or
Kicfelegg is a kind of market-town with a nunnery of Francifcans in it.
The village of Walterßxfen is mentioned as a lordfhip in the count's title.
Obf. The lordfhips of Prafzberg and Leypolz are under the high and
foreft jurifdidlion of the diftri(5tj but the lower jurifdidtion thereof belongs
to the Ti-uchfefzes.
The Li'me
of the Count of WolfFegg-Waldfee.
Who ftiles
himfelf hereditary fteward of the holy Roman Empire, count
of Wolff'egg, Zeil, Wurzach, Mar and Winterfietten. His lands are
I. The lorddiip of the Waldfee which lies betwixt the county of Wol~
ffegg, the diftridl of Altorf, and the abbey of Schuffenried, and is a mort-.
gage from the houfe of Auflria. In it is
The caftle near the little town of Waldfee, in which, though belonging
to Aiißria, the Truchfefzes have a manfion-houfe.
Twenty-three villages, hamlets and farms, with a Francifcan nunnery
called Reuce.
II. The manor of Winterfietten on the river Rifz, another mortgage
from the houfe of Auflria ; and which, exclufive of the caftle and little
market-town of Winterfietten, contains in it fifteen villages hamlets and farms.
The Lifte of Scheer-Scheer.
The count of which ftiles himfelf hereditary fteward of the holy Ro"
men Empire, count of Friedberg and 'Trauchburg, baron of Waldburg,
lord of Scheer, Durmentingen, Bitffen and Kifzkgg. This count is proprietor
of
I. The lordfliip of Scheer, which lies on the Danube, and borders on
the Alb, being a cold barren foil, purchafed in the year 1463 of the houfe
of Au/lria. In it is
Scheer, a fmall town and caftle feated on the Danube.
] II. The