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Nordlingen.] GERMANY,
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with the lands of the Counts, to Duke Ulrich of Wurtemberg ; but, in the
year 1500, Duke Ulrich io\d this jurifdiction to the town of Reufli/zo-t'ri, or
as others fay, ceded it to the Emperor Mcixiitiilian, who transferred it to
the town in lieu of a fum of money. In the Diet of the Empire Rciitlimeii
is poflefTed of the fixth feat and vote on the bench of the Imperial towns
ot Siaabia ; but in that of the circle of the fourth on the bench of towns.
Its alTeiTment in the matricula of the Empire and circle formerly amounted
to one hundred and eighty-eight florins, but, in the year 1683, this fum
was reduced to one hundred and thirty-fix, and, in 1726, the town
being deftroyed by a great fire, in 1728, it was brought down to eicrhty.
Its contingency to a kammerziele is fifty-feven rixdollars, forty-foOr krui'tzers.
This town is under the protedlion of the Duke of Wurtemberg.
For its judicial authority it pays annually fixteen guilders in gold as an acknowledgment
to the Imperial prefedlurate of Altorf. Near it, in the year
J 7 16,
was difcovered a fulphureous fpring.
To its territories belong the parifhes of Bezingen, WanweiJ^ Omvicnhaufen
and Bronniveiler.
NORDLINGEN.
The free Imperial city of Nordlinge^i lies in the Riefz on the river Eger, \\\
a fertile country, particularly in pafturage, and, till the year 1238, flood
on the adjacent hill of Emeransbcrg, but was that year confumed bv fire,
upon which it was built on its prefent fite. The burghers here are almoft
all of them hutheran, and thofe ofthat religion, exclufive of the parochialchurch,
are poflefled of two others, onR of which ftands near the hofpital,
and a Latin fchool ; but the i?5w^;/-catholics in this city celebrate public
worfliip in the church near the German houfe which belongs to the landcommandery
of Ellingen in Franconia, and which, in the year 1387, fell
to the Teutonick order. The magitlracy alfo are Lutheran. Formerly the
town was under the bifliopric of Ratisbon, but in the thirteenth century it
obtained the freedom of the Empire, though not before the year i 251. The
Emperors Charles IV. and Wenceßaus promifed, that the town lliould be
maintained in its immediate dependency on the Empire. In the Imperial
Diet it poflefies the feventh place on the bench of the Imperial towns of
Swabia, but the fifth among thofe of that circle. Nordlingen was formerly
aflcfled to the matricula of the Empire and Circle at two hundred and fixty
florins, but, in the year 1683, this afl"eflment was reduced to one hundred
and fifty. Its contingent to the chamber at Wetzlar is laid to be two hundred
and nineteen rixdollars, feventy-two kruitzers. The Emperor Charles IV.
granted it the privilege of holding a court, but it has made no ufe of it.
Near it, in the year 1634, the Sivedes were defeated by the Imperiali/ls.
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