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Eberfteln.] GERMANY.
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EBERSTEIN
The County of
Lies in the Black Foreß,
betwixt the dutchy o^Wiirtemberg and the Margravate
of Baaden, being watered by the Murg, by means of which great
numbers of timber-floats are carried into the Rhine. On the extindion of
the Counts of Eberßeiuy who were proprietors of this county, in the perfoii
of Count Cafimlr in the year 1660, it fell as a vacant male-fief to the
Marggraves of Baaden-Baaden, to whom a part of it had alfo defcended for
fome time before. It gives title to a feat and vote in the college of Swabian
Counts at the Diet of the Empire, and alfo in that of the Circle. In the
Imperial mairicula the afTeffment of the Counts of Eberßein is
four foot, or
fixteen florins, and their quota to the chamber at Wetzlar ten ruthlers,
feventy-three kruitzers. This county contains
Eberßein, a cal^le, with a market-town of the fame name lying near it.
Gerjpach, a fmall town, feated on the river Murg, and one part of the
inhabitants of which are Lutherans, the other i^^/vw/z-catholics. The cathedral
of Speyr is joint proprietor hereof, and has fometimes even difpofed
of it as a fief.
The parochial villages of Forbach, Weifenbach, Salbach, &c.
Muckenßurm, a market-town, feated without the county in the Marggravate
ot Baaden.
Frauenalb, in Latin Alba dominarum, a BenediBine abbey fijr ladies,
Htuate near the river Alb, and founded by Count Berthold of Eberßein.
Belonging to it are certain villages and hamlets, as namely Voikerjbach,
Pfaffenrotb, Zeil, &c.
Obf. The Counts oi Eberßein were formerly proprietors alfo of the town
oiGcchßoeim and the market-towns of Boltringen and Oberdorf, of which
an account has been given above under the dutchy oi Wurtemberg.
Of the Counts o/' Fugger in general^
lands
and of their
in the circle of^^K^ih in particular,
§. I. 'Tp HE Counts of Fugger are defcended from "John Fiigger an inha-
* bitant of the village oi Graben, which lies not far from Augslmrg,
who removing in the year 1370 to that city became, by marriage, a freeman
V o L. V. N n thereof.