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Ulm.] GERMANY. 28-;
cathedral, which is a large ftrudlure, ftanding ahnoft in the centre of the city,
and having feven minifters belonging to it, together with the church of the
Holy Ghoß, a hofpita! and the church of bare-footed Monks. The Ronwncatholic
inhabitants perform their pubHc worOiip at the convent of St. Michael
at Wengen, in which are regular canons of the order of St. AiigulHne,
and in the houfe of the Teutonick order, to which belong the villages of
Betthigcn and BoUingen, which are faid by miftake above, under the article
The
Alfchaufen, to be fubjejR: to the conimcnderies of Rohr and Waldjlettcn.
Lutheran jiymnafium here is founded in the convent formerly beloneins to
the bare-Footed Monks. The fplendid foundation of Sammlungs/lift is particularly
appropriated for the daughters of Patricians, who are permitted to
marry. The magiftracy here \s Lutheran and confifts of forty-one members,
above one half of whom are Patricians. Among the public civil buildings
here are the town-houfe and the arfenal with many others. This city
maintains fix companies of foldiers, three of whom conftitute its contingent
to the circle. Large quantities of wine are brought hither from the Rhine,
the Neckar, the lake of Coßatiz and Veltlin, and carried farther up on the
Danube. Vim trades alfo in linen and other goods. The arms of the city
are a chief argent, furrounded by another jable. Till the year 1300, this
place had no walls, being only furrounded with a ditch and a pallifade. In
813, the Emperor Charlemagne granted certain confiderable privileges
to the abbey of Reichnau near Coßanz over Ulm, which in ancient records
is called Villa Regia: but notwithftanding this, it ftill continued
immediately fubjedl to the Empire; and under the Emperor Lei^isW. it
bought off this jurifdiftion from the abbot for a fum of money, the faid
Emperor, intheyear 1346, alfo permitting the city to chufe a council for
itfeif. The Emperors ChariesV. Wenceßaus and Frederick III. in conjunct
tion with other Emperors, confirmed and enlarged its privileges. In the
Diet of the Empire it pofiefies the fourth feat on the bench of S-Ji-abian
cities ; but in the circle of Siivabia has not only the fecond place on the
bench oi Swabian cities, but alfo the perpetual direäorium thereof. In Vim
are kept the archives of the Imperial towns in Siaabia and Franconia ; and
the Diet oi Sivabia alfo is ufuallv held here. In the year 16S3, thiss city
was aflelTed by the matricula of the Empire and Circle at between 'i\x and
nine hundred florins ; and its contingent to the chamber at Wetzlar is five
hundred and ninety-five rixdollars, fourteen kruitzers. With refpcdf to its
hiftory, it is to be obferved, that in the year 1 129, it was deftroyed by the
Emperor Lo/i'ör/wi ; and in 1348 confumed by fire; that an agreement
was made herein 1620 betwixt the United and Leagiiißs, and that, in the
year 1702, it was furprized by the Elector of Ba-varia. An Imperial court
was anciently held here in the StadelhoJ, near that v.hich atprelent ;s called
the Grunenhof.
Not far from the city lies
Boßingen,