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GERMANY.
Biel and Ncueiißadt,vj')Xh. their territories ;
[Fulda.
as alfo the felgniory of Er^^a^/,
lUfingen and the Thefenberg ; concerning which a fuller account will be
given in Sivitzerland.
FULDA,
'The Bishopric of
§• the principality of Fulda, Wolfgan Regrwill has delineated a
OFchart, which was engraven by Blaeti. After him John Bapt. Homann
publifhed another on two flieets, which in the Atlas oi Germany is the
I02d. In John Frederic Schannat's Corpus 'Traditionum Fuldenfmm we find
a chart of ancient Buchau, in Latin Buchonla, which jfoh. George Pufchner
of Nuremberg engraved ; and this very Schannat has fubjoined a chart to his
work, which bears the infcription of Diocefis Fuldeiifis.
§. 2. The principality is environed by Hejfe, the counties of Ifenburg and
Hanau, the bifliopric of Wurzburg, the princely county of Henneburg, and
fome diftrids of knights of the Empire, being in its greateft length above
thirteen, and in its greateft breadth upwards of ten German miles.
§.3. It is a mountainous and woody country, but has alfo rich arable
lands and fait fprings. The principal rivers which water it are the Fulda,
which arifes in it, and the Saal, which iflues out of the territory of Wurzburg,
and to the fouth runs through a fmall tra(fl of the bifhopric of Fulda.
Its inhabitants are for the greateft part Roman catholics, but among them are
alfo fome Lutherans. In general we reckon here fixty parifli and ninetyfour
filial churches, among which nine of the parifh and a few of the filial
churches are Lutheran, but the reft catholic.
§. 4. This principality forms a confiderable part of the ancient Buchau,
in Latin Buchonia, Boconia, Bocauna, Buochumia and Puohunna, which
arofe out of a great and rough wood, and was divided into fix gauns, or
fogi; namely, into Eaft and Weft Grapfeld, Tullifeld, Salagewe, Sinnageive,
ylfcfeld, Vucringeiae and Baringe. To this rough wood the Abbot
Sturm betook himfelf in the year 742, at the fuggeftion of St. Bonijace,
in order to feek out a place for a cloyfter. He fixed upon one on the
river Fulda, in Latin Fuldaha, over which the merchants of Thüringen
ufed to go to Mentz, and Boniface, in the year 744, obtained permiftion
of the Frankißj King, Karlwann, to eredl a cloyfter there, which was founded
with BenediSline Monks, and had the faid Sturm for its firft abbot. Pope
Zaihary I. in the year 751, conferred on it the privilege of being fubjed:
to the chair of Rome alone, and to no other bifliop. This privilege was
con-