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GERMANY.
Lindau.]
campments in this ifland during their expeditions againft the Vindelici and
Alemanni. It is alfo fuppofed that near this caftle formerly flood a town,
and that the little church of St. Peter here was built on the firft introdudlion
of Chriftianity into this country. This town occurs likewife in two records
under the name o^ Curtis Linioiva, and bearing date fo long ago as the time
of the Carlovingians. In the year 948, Lindau being hid in allies by Her^
inaim Duke oi Swabia, a great number of the inhabitants betook themfelves
to Efchach on the continent, which by means of this emigration foon became
a thriving town. But in the eleventh century this place being confumed
by fire, they piirchafed their freedom of their Lord Count Hugo of
Bregenz, returned again to the ifland and rebuilt their original town of
Lindau, which in the years 1264 and 1347 was again almoll totally confumed
by fire. By King RiiJolpbus's charter of 1275, the town appears
both at that time and a long while before to have been Imperial. The
Emperors Charles IV. and Winceßaus promifed to maintain it as fuch. In
1396 it procured to itfelf for ever the redemption of the Imperial vogtey or
prefedlurate. In the Diet of the Empire it pofTeffes the fifteenth place
among the Imperial cities of the Swabian bench, but in the circle of Swabia
the twelfth. Its aflelTment to a matricula of the Empire and Circle, which
formerly amounted to one hundred and ninety-fix florins, in the year 1683
was reduced to ninety, but in 1728 raifed to one hundred and thirty,
though with a refervation at the fame time of an abatement at a certain
limited term. The magiftracy here confiflis of the privy and large council.
Litidaii was alfo formerly a court-town and a provincial tribunal ;
but inftead
of thefe it has ever fince the end of the fifteenth century been annexed to
Altorf. It pays annually, as an acknowledgment, two tuns of wine to the
prefedturate of Altorf. At the Diet held here in the year 1496 was eftabliflied
the chamber of juflice. In 1647 it held out a fiege of nine
weeks againft the Swedes, who were at laß: obliged to retire. In 1728 a
confiderable part of it was confumed by fire.
The diftricfl belonging to this town has been reprefented in a map drawn
betwixt the years 1626 and 1628 by yohn Andrew Rauh. It lies betwixt
the lordfliips of JVaJJerburg, Tettnang, Achberg, New-Ravensburg, and Bre~
genz. In it are comprehended
The villages o( E/chach or Aefchach, which was formerly a town.
Rickenbach, Schonau, and Oberraitnau, which conftitute a part of the
town's property. But in each of thefe villages the fecular abbey at Lindau
has a farm, and the patronage of them was mortgaged, in 1334,. by
the Emperor Lewis to Hugh Count of Bregenz, as alfo by the Emperor
Charles IV. in the years 1364 and 1366 to Ulrich the Elder Count of Helfenflein;
by the Emperor Winceßaus \n 1394 to Mark von Schellenberg;
and laftly, by the Emperor Sigifmund in 1430 to the town of Lindau, for
the fum of 1300 florins. All the natives of thefe four villages, before the
Vol. V. Q^q year
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