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288 GERMANY, [Reutlingen.
fuburb oi Beulten, near which lies the citadel ; and the fuburb of Blienfau^
which is fitiiated on an illand betwixt the main flream of the Neckar and
the above-mentioned branch, and is noted for containing in it the arfenal
of the circle of Sivabia. The principal church here belongs to the Lutherans,
ot whom the whole magiftracy c&nfifts. The 7?(?//;c/«-catholics of this town
perform their pubhc woriLip in the chapel of the ftewards, which the convent
of Knyferjheiin has in this place. It is no eafy matter to determine the firft
commencement of its Imperial freedom. In the Diet of the Empire it
polfeircs the fifth place on the bench of the Imperial cities of Sivabia, but
the third on the bench of cities in the circle of Swabia. Its afleffment in
the matricula of the Empire amounted at firft to two hundred and twenty
florins ; but, in the year 1683, this fum was reduced to one hundred and
forty-fcven, and in 1692 brought down ftill farther to thirty-feven. To a
kammerzicle, or the chamber at IVetzIar, it is faid to pay one hundred and
feventy-ieven rixdollars, fifty-one kruitzers. As a bailiwick this city pays
yearly an acknowledgment of ten florins to the Imperial prefedurate of
A'ttorf. EJzlingen is under the protection of the Duke of Wurtemberg,
In the year 1701 it fuffered much by a fire. Near it, in the Neckar-halden
as it is called, is produced a good Neckd7--\v\ne. Its territories are on all
fides furrounded by the dutchy of Wiirteinberg. Exclufive of the villages
of Mettbigen and certain hamlets, they contain in them alfo the parochialvillages
0^ Deyzifau an the Neckar, Mohringen and Vayhingen, the two laft of
which lie in the Fildern, or coal-fielch, as they are called; and belong to the
above-mentioned holpital of St. Catherine.
REUTLINGEN,.
The free Imperial city of Reutlingen {lands about one long German
mile's diflance from T'ubi77gen, on the little river Echetz, which runs into the
Neckar. This city is not large, having in it only one parochial-church, totrether
with one hofpiral, an orphan-houfe and a grammar-fchool. Both the
mat^iltracy and burghery here are Lutheran, the former of which ufually
confifts of twenty-eight perfons, of whom the Schultheifx, or civil-judge,
and twelve others, are commoners, and conftitute the Zunftmeißer co'llegiiun
or the wardens of companies. It is faid that the Emperor Frederickll. firfl
environed this city with a wall in the year
12 15 or 1220, and alfo made it an
Imperial free town.. The Emperors C'/6örA'j IV. and IFenceßaus engaged, in
the years 1348 and 1387, to maintain the tov/n in its immediate dependency
on the Empire, and neither to mortgage nor fell it. The jiirifdiiftion
which the Counts of Achahn (whofe feat ftood not far from hence) had over
this town, and which on their extinftion fell to the Empire, is fliid to have
fefign nyiAs. over by the Emperor Lewii o£ Bavaria, in the year 1330, together
with-