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3c6 GERMANY. [Aalen,
maintain it in its privileges. In the general Diet it holds the thirty-fourth
place among the Imperial towns on the bench of Sivahja, and in that of the
circle the twenty-fifth. Its afTelTment in the matricula of the Empire and
Circle was reduced in the year 1683 from twenty to fourteen florins, and \n
1728 farther lowered to thirteen. To the chamber at PFctzlar it pays
twenty rixdollars, twenty-feven kruitzers, exclufive of an acknowledgment
often pounds of pfennings to the Imperial prefeöurate o^ Altorf. This place
is under the proteftion of the Imperial town of JJbaiingen. In it are warehoufes
for the goods configned to it from St. Gall and Btcmach, crofs the
lake of Coßanz. to Sival>ia, and likewife for thofe fent in return. In the
yeai- 1369 it w-as wholly deftroyed by fire. Not far from it ftands a Do^
miincmi nunnery called Lieben, or Lo'wenthal.
The lordfliip of Baumgarten, together with the feat of that name and
the large village oi Eriskirch, is under the high jurifdiäion of tlie prefecturate.AALE
N.
The free Imperial town of Aalen, in Latin called Ah, or Ola^ lies in th©
Kochenthal on the river Kocher, betwixt the diflricl of the Imperial town of
Gmünd and the abbey of Elwangetj, being wholly Proteflant. A Count of
Oettingen is faid to have mortgaged it for the fum of 20,000 fiorins to Count
Eberhard oilVurtemhivg; but in the year 1360 the Emperor CZwA'i IV,
purchafed it and annexed it to the Empire, and as fuch the Emperor Weu".
ceßam in 1387, and in 140 1 the Emperor Rupert, promifed to maintain it.
In the general Diet its place among the Imperial towns on the Swabiars
bench is the thirty-fifth, but in that of the circle it pofTefTes the twentyfixth.
Its affelTment in the matricula of the Empire .and Circle formerly
amounted to fixty florins, but in the year 1683 it obtained a redudion of
it to twenty-nine, and in the year 1728 this fum was raifed again to thirtyeight
florins. To the chamber of Wetzlar it
pays eighteen rixdollars, fifcy-lix
kruitzers and a half} and as an acknowledgment of its having a civil jufhciary
it pays likewife every year ten florins to the Imperial prefedturate oiAltorf.
To its diftrift belong the hamlets of Upper and Vnäer-Rombach^ Häbemßatt,
Rothenberg and Littk-Hurblingen,
B P F I N G E N.
The fmall free Imperial town of Bopfingen, or Topfingen, lies
in the Rießs
en the river Eger, being furrounded by the county of Oettifigen. This place
is Lutheran. In the year 1387 the Emperor Wencejlaus promifed it the
con-