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302 G. E R M A N r. [Wangen.
the Empire and Circle was formerly one hundred and fixty florins, but in
1683 was reduced to fifty-three and one half. To the chamber at Wetzlar
it pays forty-four rixdollars, fixty-five kruitzers.
WE
In its diftrifb are the villages of Vpper-Beuren^ Maurßetten, Upper-Germeringen,
Upper-Oßendo7-f &nd Weßendorf.
IL.
The free Imperial town of Weil, in Latin Wila, is alfo called Weilerßadt,
Stadtwil, or Weil dießadt, by way of diftindion from a village of the fame
name. This town ftands on the river Wurm, htivj'ixt Liebenzell and Sin-
Aelfingen, two towns belonging to the dutchy of Wurtanberg, by which
dutchy it is wholly furrounded. The i^owöw-catholic religion prevails here.
The paridi-church of St. Feter was formerly collegiate. Here is alfo a
convent oi Augußijie and Capuchin Monk?,, together with a rich hofpital.
The time of its being made an Imperial town is not certainly known. The
Emperors Charles IV. and Wenceßaus promifed to maintain it as fuch. In
the general Diet it fits the twenty-third among the Imperial towns on the
Sivabian bench, but in the circular Diet is poffefled of the eighteenth feat.
Its affelTment in the niatricula of the Empire and Circle was in the year
1683 reduced from fixty florins to eighteen, but in 1728 raifed again to
thirty. Its quota to the chamber at Wetzlar is forty-five rixdollars, ten
kruitzers. To the Imperial prefedurate o{ Altorf'w. pays annually as an acknowledgment
ten pound of hellers. In the year 1388 Count Ulrich oi
Wurtemberg
WANGEN,
lofl; his life in a battle near this place. In 1648 the French
took it by ftorm. Near it is a freye purjch, or free hunting diftrid.
The free Imperial town of Waiigen lies, together with its diftrid, on the
river Argen, betwixt the prefedurate of Altorf and the lordfliips of Tettnang,
Egloff' and others ; being Roman-czxhoWc, and containing in it a parifhchurch,
as alio an hofpital and a convent of Capuchin Monks. At what
time it became an Imperial town is not known. In 1330 the Emperor
Lewis mortgaged it to Hugh, Count of Bregenz ; but the Emperors
Charles IV. and Wenceßaus promifed to maintain it in its perpetual privileges.
In the diet of the Empire it fits the twenty-fourth among the Imperial
towns of the bench of Sivabia, but the nineteenth in the circular
Diet. Its afileflment in the matricida of the Empire and Circle which formerly
amounted to eighty florins was in 1683 reduced to forty. To the
Imperial chamber at Wetzlar its quota is thirty-fix rixdollars, forty-three
kruitzers. To the imperial prefedurate of Alto?-/ it pays annually eight
pounds