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Pfullendorf.]
GERMANY:
place is Lutheran. At what time it came to be an Imperial town is not
known. In the year 1354 the Emperor Charles IV. granted it to the Counts
of Helfenflcin as an hereditary fief, but in 1378 that Emperor lealfumed it,
and the Emperor Wenceßaus alfo promifed to maintain it as an Imperial
town. In 1634 it was entirely deftroyed by the Imperial army. In the
general Diet it holds the thirty-firfl: place among the Imperial towns of the
Bench of Swabia, and in that of the Circle of Sivabia the twenty-third.
Its affefTment to the mairicula of the Empire and circle, which formerly
amounted to fixty florins, was, in the year 1683, reduced to thirty-four ; but
in 1728 fettled again at thirty-fix. To the chamber at Wetzlar \i^ c^mqu
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is twenty-feven rixdoUars, fix kruitzers.
PFULLENDORF,
The free little Imperial town of Pfullendorf lies in the Hegau, betwixt
the counties of Heiligenberg and Sigmari?igen. Some are of opinion that at
this place flood the town of Bragodurutn, mentioned by Ptoiomey. This
town is i?ö;;w«-catholic, and exclufive of a pari(h-church contains in it a
hofpital and two nunneries. Anciently it had Counts of its own, of whom
Count Rudolph, who died in 1 180, having only one daughter, was prevailed
upon to transfer his county to the Emperor Frederick I. The Emperors
Charles IV. and Wenceßaus promifed to maintain the town in the enjoyment
of its Imperial privileges. In theDiet of theEmpire its place is the twenty-fjxth
among the Imperial towns on the bench of Swabia, and in that of the circle
the twenty-fourth. Its afleflment in the matricula of the Empire and
Circle formerly amounted to one hundred and four florins ; but in the year
1683 this was reduced to forty-three, and in 1728 raifed again to forty-fix.
To the chamber of Wetzlar it pays thirty-three rixdollars, fixty-nine kruitzers
and a half. To the Imperial prefedurate it pays annually an acknowledgment
of five pounds of pfennings.
The village of Linz belonging to it, and which ftands at the diftance of
about one hour weft from the town, gave name to the Linzgau
B U C H H R N.
The free little Imperial town of Buchhorn, or Buchorn^ lies on the lake of
Coftanz, being Lutheran, and had formerly Counts of its own, who failed in
the perfon of Count Otto, on which this town efcheated to the Guelphs,
Counts of Altorf: But even fo early as the Sivabian Emperors it was an
Imperial town ; and was further declared fuch by 'King Rudolph!, in the
year 1275. The Emperors Charles IV. and Weiueßaiis promifed alfo to
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