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270 GERMANY, [Konlgfegg.
each of thefe lines runs thus, "viz. Counts of the holy Roman Empire of
Konigjcgg and Rothe?ifeh, and Barons of Aukfidorf and Stauffen. The
Aulendorf line adds alfo to it that of lords of Ebenweikr and Wald in
Sioabia. Their arms are chequee topaz and ruby. In the diet of the Empire
they poifefs only one vote in the college of the Sicabian counts, but
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in that of the circle of Sivahia each line has one vote, alternating among
themfelves and the hereditary Erbtruchfefz lines both with refpedl to feat
and voice. In the Imperial nwtricula their affeffment for Konigfeck Berg
is twenty florins, for Au/endorf twenty-four, and for Rothenfeh and Stauffen
forty. Their contingency to the chamber at Wetzlar is for Aulendorf,
twenty-eight ruthlers, thirty-eight kruitzers and a half, and for Rothenfeh
and Stauffen thirty ruthlers, fifty-nine kruitzers and one ninth.
The Line of the Comits of Konigfegg-Rothenfels
are proprietors of
The county of Rothenfeh, together with the lordfliip of 5'/^^/^«. This
county lies in the Algau betwixt the bifhopric of Augsburg, the abbey of
Kempten, the county of Trauchbwg, and the Auflrian lordfliips of Arlberg.
It is near five German miles long, and betwixt two and three in breadth, and
•anciently belonged to the counts of Montfort, of whom it waspurchafed by
the Konigfegg family in the fixteenth century. The remarkable places
in it
are
Rothenfeh, a caflle, feated on a hill. Beneath it lies
Immenjlatt, a large market-town, fituate betwixt the Alpjee and \}neller, on
a ftream which iflues out of the former into the latter. In it is a monaftery
of Capuchins.
Werdenjiein,
a caflle.
Stauffen, a caflle, {landing on a mountain, and having a barony belonging
to it.
The Li?ie of the Counts of Konigfegg-Aulendorf, pojfejfes
I. The county of Konigfegg, lying betwixt the county of Heiligenberg,
the lordlhip of Scheer, the commandery of Alchhaufen, and the fheriffdom
of Altorf. In it is
Kofiigßgg, or Konigfeck, a caftle, (landing on a hill, and the original
feat of the family.
The villages of Wald, Gugenhaufen, and Ebenweikr.
II. The barony of Aulendorf which lies betwixt the commandery of
Alfchhaufen, the prefefturate of Altorf, and the abbey of Sckiffenried,
The principal place in it is
Aulendorf a caflle nd market-town, flanding on a hill, at the foot of
which ru ns the Scbuf. The