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3$o GERMANY. [U. Bavaria.
Inrgefl: market-place ftands a high marble pillar with a brafs ftatue of the
Viro;in Mary upon it, and two large fountains, and on the fides is the
town-houle, in which the States hold their meetings, together with feveral
lofty houfes ornamented with decorations of paintings on the front. The
principal ecclefiaffical buildings here are the collegiate-church, which is
dedicated to the Virgin Man, that of St. Peter, with the convents of the
Aiigujiincs-, Capuchins, Carmelites, Fra72cilcans and Thentiyes. as alfo the Jefuits
college, in which is a valuable library, together with the nunneries of
iS. Clara, Bridget and Ridler, the refidence of the Englijh fociety, the hofpitals
of St. Elizabeth, or the Duke's, and S. Jofeph, as alfo that of the
Holy-Gbofi:
On the other fide of the Ifer lies the Au, the remarkable places in which
are, the houfe oi Duke Albert, with its chapel, and the Eledor's manu~
fidory. Above the Au flands a convent belonging to the order of St. Paul.
In Munich are m.anufadures of velvet, filk, wool and tapeftry. It is probable
that the ancient city of Campodmiufn, or Campidoman, ifood in this
ncigiibourhood. About the year 1175, Duke Henry the Lion built the
city oi Munich on a fpot belonging to the convent of Rchoftlar. In 1327
It was greatly damaged by fire, and in 1448 almofl: entirely deftroyed. In
1632 It was taken by the Swedes, and in 1704, 1742 and 1743 by the
Aiijirians, who in the lart-mentioned year eliablifhed a commiflion of regency
at this place.
2. The Pfleggericht or and o{ Dachau contains in it
Dachau, a market-town feated on an eminence on the river Atnmer, on
a high hill near which ftands an eledloral caftle. This place had anciently
Counts of its own who took their title from it, and were defcended from
the Counts of Scheiirn, but became extinä: in the year 1 175
: The lordfliip
of Dachau, however, was before that purchafed by Duke Otho I. A canal
leads from this place towards Schleißmm.
Brück, or Pruck, alfo called Upper-bruck, a market-town feated on the
fiver Ammer near Furftenfeld.
Nympfenberg, a pleafure-houfe belonging to the Elector, and ftanding
»bout one half hour from Mwiich, has fine gardens and water-works in it,
together with a canal which leads to Munich.
Schleißmm, a ftately feat of the Eledlor's, about one German mile and a
quarter from Mmiich, is more efpecially remarkable for a colledlion of piclures
in it by the mofi: celebrated mafters, namely hy Rubens, Albert Durer
and others. Out of the garden belonging to it we come into a large mall
planted on each fide with limes, at the end of which (lands the delicious
village of Lujtheitn, where begins a canal, which on one fide leads to Da-^
chau, and on the other falls into the IJer. At this place alfo is a ftud of
the
Eledlor's.
Furjtenfeldt a large convent of Cijtercian Monks, fituated on the river