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GERMANY.
continuance of its privileges. In the Diet of the Empire its place amon»
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the Imperial towns of the bench of Sisoabia is the thirty-feventh, but in
that of the circle it ranks the t\vrnt\'-feventh. Its airellhient in the fnatricula
of the Ejtpire ?nd Circle lormerly amounted to twenty-four florins;
but in 1683 this was reduced to feventeen, though in 1728 raifed aoain to
twenty. To the Imperial chamber at Wetzlar its quota is thirteen rixdoUars,
fixty-five kruitzers and a half. This place is proprietor of the village
oi Oberdoff in its neighbourhood.
B U C H A U.
The free little Imperial town of Biichau ftands on the Federfee. In the
time of the Emperor Leivis it was mortgaged, but in 1347 that Emperor
promifed to make it unalienable if it redeemed itfelf, and in 1387 it received
aiTurances fr(im the Emperor Wenceßain of its perpetual annexment
to the Empire. In the general Diet its place among the Imperial towns of
the bench of Sii-abia is the thirty-fixth ; but in that of the circle the twentyeighth.
Its afleflment in the matricida of the Empire and Circle formerly
amounted to eight florins, but in 1683 this fum was reduced to four. To
the chamber
OFFEN
at Wetzlar it pays fixteen rixdollars, nineteen kruitzers and
a half.
BURG.
The free little Imperial town of Offenhurg lies on the river Kinzhg in
the Ortenau, being Roman-c^\.\\o\\c, and containing in it two convents.
This place was originally an Imperial town, but by the Empire mort^a^ed
to Banden, which in the year 1330 made over the faid mortgage to the bifhopric
oi Strafzbiirg, by which bifliopric one half of it was further tranfferred
to the Eledor-palatine. From the former of thefe the town redeemed
itfelf fomewhat before the fixteenth century, and from the latter it became
difcharged in the year 1504, on that Prince's falling under the ban of the
Empire. In J 63 5 its charter as an Imperial and circular town was renewed.
In the Diet of the Empire it fits the twcnty-feventh amon^ the
Imperial towns on the bench of Siambia, but at the circular Diet its place is
reckoned the twenty-ninth. Its afTeflinent in the matricula of the Circle
and Empire was in the year 1683 reduced from one hundred and twenty
to thirty-four florins, and in 17^8 to thirty-three. To the chamber at
Wetzlar it pays twenty-two rixdollars, eighty-eight kruitzers and a half.
Offenburg is under the protedion of Aiijlria, and even the refidence of the
Atißrian prefedl in Ortenau. In the year 1688 its fortifications were bIo\\n
up by the French.
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