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GMÜND.
GERMANY. 294- [Memmingen.
The free Imperial town of Gmiind, or Gemund, which is alfo Swahlati
Gmünd, and originally Kayferfreuth, lies on the Renn at the end of the Remjlhal,
betwixt the manor belonging to the Wurtemberg convent of Lorch and the
lordlliip of Heydenheim. Its territories border alfo on the Imperial town of
Aulen ^ndi ih^lo^dOn.]^ oi Rechbe}-g. The whole town is Roman-c2i\ho\\c ;
and exclufive of the principal church of the Holy Crofs, it contains in it
three other churches, together with another near the hofpital, as alfo four
convents and two nunneries.
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he magiftracy here is elefted out of the
body of the people. Gmünd was very probably a municipal town of the
Dukes of Sivabia of the Hoheii-Stanff'en family,
but afterwards obtained the
freedom of the Empire and the Emperors Charles IV. and Wenceßaus engaged
to maintain it in its immediate dependency thereon. In the Imperial
Diet it poffelTes the thirteenth feat among the towns of Swabia, and
amons: thofe of the circle the tenth. Its afleffment to a matricula of the
Empire and Circle, which formerly amounted to one hundred and fevenlyfix'
florins, was, in 1683, reduced to one hundred and fifteen, but in
1728 it was raifed to one hundred and forty-two. Its contingency to the
chamber of Wetzlar is faid to amount to one hundred and one rixdollars,
forty-one kruitzers and a half. Near it is a common Purfch, or free hunting
ground called Mundart.
Within its territories are the pariflies of Bargaii, Dewangen, Herrligkofen,
Iggingen, Mogglingen, and Bobingen, together with Läutern, MuthlangeUy
IJpper-Bettringen, Spreiibach, Weil, Wetzgau, and Zimmerbach.
MEM MIN GEN.
The free Imperial town of Memmingen lies in a beautiful and fertile
plain on a fmall river called the Aach, and running into the Her. This
town is Lutheran, and its principal church of St. Martin belongs entirely
t3 thofe of that communion ; but the church of cur Lady is pofTeffed by
them in common with the 7?07;/rt«-catholics here, by virtue of an agreement
made in the year 1569. In it is alfo an Augußine monaftery with a church,
a Francifcan nunnery, a convent or refidence of Monks of the Holy Crofs
(orditiis S.Jpiritiis de Romain Saxid) with a hofpital near it, in which is a
church, as alfo a houfe, a chapel confecrated to the three Eaftern wife men
or Kin^s of Cullen, a fmall church, and another hofpital near the church of
our Lady. The magiftracy here, which confifts of nineteen perfons, is
partly Lutheran and partly patrician, and partly alfo compofed of the body
of