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Leutkirch.] GERMANY. 303
Wangen is alfo one of the court-towns of the tribunal
pounds of pfennings.
which is held on hcutkircher heath and the Purs. In the year 1538 it was
greatly damaged by fire.
The villages of Wormbrechts^
In its diftrid are
Thann, Loiaer-Wangen^ and other places.
Y S N L
The free Imperial town o^ Tfni, or Ifny, lies in the Algaii^ betwixt the
counties of Hoheneck and Trmichbu-^g, and the lordfliip of Egkf. Its magiftracy
and the greateft part of its burghery are Lutheran ; but among the
latter are feme /?5;;7i7;;-catholics. Heie is even an abbey oi Betifdi&!?ie Monks,
of which the
noble family of the ^rcuchjt'lfes are adminiürator.^ and patrons,
the whole city indeed likewife formerly belonging to them. But the latter
in 1365 redeeming itklf for 9000 lb. weight of hellers, it was by the lc.\x\-
fievor Char/es IV. taken into the immediate protedion of the Empire, with
all the rights immunities and ulages of the other Imperial towns. The
Emperor JVenceßaus further affured them of the perpetual enjoyment of their
tenure. In a Diet of the Empire its place among the Imperial towns on
the bench of S-wabia is the twentv-fif'^h, but in the circuli^r Diet the
twentieth. Its taxation to the tna'ricu/a of th. Empire and Diet was in
1683 reduced from eighty to forty riorins. In 1692 it was further reduced
to thirty, and afterwards to lixteen, but in 1728 raifed again to thirty-eight
florins. To the Imperial chamber at Wetzlar it pays thirty-three rixdoUars,
feventy-five kruitzers. Ever lince the year 15 14 Tffii has been a courttown
for the heath of Leutktrch and the Purs. In 1631 a great part of it
was confjmed by fire, and in 1721 it fuffered extremely by the like calamity.
LEUTKIRCH.
The free Imperial town o^ Leutkirch lies in the Algau on the river £/-
chach, which below this place runs into the Aitrach, and likewife on the
heath to which it gives name. In it is a Lutheran and a i?öw/ö«- catholic
church, together with a nunnery of Francijcans, but the greateft part of
the magiftracv are Lutherans. Its immediate dependence on the Empire
may be traced with certainty at leaft from the time of King Rudolph^ and
the Emperors Charles IV. and Wenceßaus promifed to preferve it in the fame.
In the Diet of the Empire its place among the Imperial towns of the
bench of Swabia it, • the twenty-eighth, and among thufe of the circle the
twenty-firft. Its aflelTment to the motricula of the Empire and Circle was
in the year 1683 reduced fiom forty to fourteen florins; but in 1728 raifed
again to twenty-one. To the chamber at Wetzlar it pays thirty-three rixdoUars.,