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282 GERMANY. [Auglburg,
EGLINGENy
The Lordship of
Is fir»ounded by the county of Oetthigeriy certain territories belonging
to Count Fiiggcr and to the bifhopric of Augsburg, as alfo by the dutchy of
Nciiburg. Formerly it belonged to the Counts of Graveneck, who in the
year 1217 became extindl in Count Godfrey Antony, in which year it was
purchafed by the Prince of Tours and' T^xis for 200,000 florins, who by
virtue thereof enjoys both a feat and vote in the circle of Swabin on the
bench of Counts. To a Roman month it pays twenty florins, and to the
Kammerziele five rixdollars, thirty-fix and one half kruitzers. In it is
EgUngen, a market-village, together with
The
AUGSBURG.
hamlets oi Baumgarten, Sellbronn, and Oftcrhof,
The free Imperial city of Augsburg, originally called Vindelica, and afterwards
Augufta Vindelicorum, or Rbatorum, lies in a fertile healthy air and
a deli"htful countrv betwixt the rivers Lech and Wcrtach, which unite not
far from this place. Its utmolt circuit is about 9000 common paces, and its
length from the Rothe tkoren, or Red-gate to the Fifckerthor 4000. This city
is environed with ramparts, walls and deep ditches ; and has four large and
lix fmall gates, as alfo a wicket of curious contrivance betwixt the gates of
Gcgging and Klenkcr, for admitting proper perfons in the night-time. It is
commonly divided into three parts, viz. into that of St. Ulrich' s Drittel, which
reaches from the Rothe thoren to the town-houfe ; into that of Si. Siephe/fs
Dritte! extending from the IFettacher Bruckthor to the town-houfe, and into
that of Jacoas Drittel which goes from Jacob's thor to the Tocr of Barfufzer.
Others divide it into the upper, midde and lower town, and the fuburb of
St. James. Some of its ftreets are fteep, but below thefe it has others which are
broad and well paved, whence it may ingeneral be termed a fine city. Exclufive
of the cathedral oi Augsburg, with its fourteen chapels, in this city are
alfo fix Romati-cnihoWc parochial churches, -viz. thofe of St. John, S. George,
S.Maurice, and S. Ulrich, together with that of the Holy Crofs, and 5". Stephen,
as alfo live monalleries, among which is a Jefuit's college, and excluiive of the
libbies of 5. Ulrich and AJra, of which a particular article is to be met with
at the end of this circle) three nunneries, and fix Lutheran parilli-churches,
viz. thofe of 6'. Anjia and S. Ulrich near the Holy Crofs, that of the barefooted
Monks, that of St. James and the Holy Ghojt, or /;/-; Spital, to which belong
four-