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334 GERMANY. [U. Bavaria.
States, that at the Diet of the Empire it fhould be reftored to its former privileges,
and enjoy the fame immunities in ecclefianical and civil affairs,
which, by virtue of this peace, the other free Imperial States were to be
poffeffed of, and that notwithftanding any claims whatfoever upon the town.
But this indulgence was never carried into execution, and Donmitvertb aüually
continues ftill under the "dominion of J^^ii^Wß. From the years 1705 to
1714, it was reftored to its former immediate dependence on the Empire,
but by the peace of Baade?i again fell to the Eledlor of Bavaria. To this
town belong feveral lands. In the year 1530, the Imperial j^^^ oi Worth
was removed by the Emperor CharlesV. to this place, but, in 1536, the
latter transferred it to the houfe of Fiigger for the fum of 6600 florins,
which the Emperor Charles VII. as Eledor, obtained by agreement for his
houfe. This pfege principally contains in it four villages, among which
is the viUage'of Laiitcrbach, which, together with its courts, privileges and
emoluments, became, as above, the property of the commandery of the
Ttutanick order in this town, but the criminal jurifdidion belongs to the
Imperial Pflege. In it alfo is a free Burfch.
Schellenbergy not far from hence, is famous for the defeat of the Bavarians
there in the year 1704, by the united forces of the Englißo and
Imperialißs, though ftrongly entrenched.
15. Tht Pfleggericht oi IVembdingctj, which lies betwixt the principality
of Neuburg and the county of Oettingen, anciently belonged to the Counts
of Hirfchberg, on the failure of whom it came as a fief of the bifhopric of
Ratisbon to the houfe of Wembdingen, who fold it to the Counts of Oettingen
; and thefe again, in the year 1467, made it over lo Bavaria. In the
year 1504, Bavaria difpofedof it again to Oettingen; but this purchafe was
never completed on account of the oppoiition of the burghers, and the
money paid lor it, which amounted to 20,000 florins, is faid to have been
returned in 1516. To it belongs
Wembdingen, a fmall town, in which is a caflle and a medicinal bath ;
Funfßetten, Lozheim, Nitsbiihl, Ammerbach and other places.
\b. The phleggerickt oi Aicha, which belongs to the Knights of St. George,
contains in it
Aicha, a fmall town, feated on the river Faar, with an old caftle, two
churches and a houfe belonging to the order of St. J'c^;?. In the year 1633,
this place was taken by the Sioedes, and, in 1634, laid in aflies by them.
Not far from hence flood the caflle of Upper-Wittelsbach, which is the
family feat of the Counts of Wittelsbach ; but Otho of Wittelsbach having
murdered Philip, King of the Romans, in the year 1208 it was demolifhed,
and the (tones of it are faid to have been ufed for the building of this little
town. Below it ftands alfo the caftle of Vnder-Wittelbach.
Blumenthal, a commandery of the order of St. John, not far from Aicha,
a market- town.
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