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n 56 G E R M j4 N r. [Frey fing.
FRETSING.
The Bishopric of
'T^HE territories belonging to the cathedral of Freyfing, or Freyfingen,
and included in this circle, are furrounded by the dutchy of Bavaria,
as may be feen in the above-mentioned maps of Bavaria. The
founder of this biHiopric was St. Corbinian, who, according to Baronit/s
and Hanfitz, went to Rome about the year 710, and was there conlecrated
biihop of the place by Pope Conflantine III. after which he lived as a hermit
in France for feveii years, and towards the year 717, at which time Gregory II.
was Pope, and ThcoJo Duke of Bavaria, came to Bavaria, where, with
the confentof the latter, he built a church in honour of St. BenediSl on the
hill of Freyßng, as alfo a convent, and was the iiril billit-p of Freyßng. This
bifliopric, by means of donations and purchafe, gradually increafed in eftates,
lands and fubjetfls. Its prelate is fuffragan to the archbifliop of Salzburg.
As a Prince of the Empire he polTelTes the fourteenth place on the bench of
ecclefiaftical Princes, and lits betwixt the bifliops ot Paderbcni and Ratij~
ban. In the Diet of the circle of Bavaria he holds the fecond feat on the
ecclefiaftical bench, but is lummoned next after the El (ftor of Bavaria.
His aliefTment in the Imperial maüieula amounts to twelve horfe and eighty
foot, or four hundred and fixty-four florins; but his taxation is faid to be lower.
To the chamber at I'Vctzlar he pays one hundred and fifty-two rixdollars,
nineteen kruitzers. The firft canons of Freyßng were Monks. The chapter
at prefent conlirts of fifteen canons and nine domicellarii. To this bifhopric
belongs
Freyfing, in Latin Frifmga, and anciently Fruxiniiim, Fruxinia, or Frixinia,
the capital and refidence of the biihop, landing on two hills on the little
river Mofacl.\ not far from the Tfer, and commanding a mofl: delightful
profpeil into Bavaria, the archbilliopric o^ Salzburg, the counties oi Werdenfeh
and Tvrc?/, and likewife to ^^ Algau mountains. Of thefe mountains one,
commonly named the Frevfing, lies within the city walls, and on it ftands
the bilLop's palace, together with the cathedral and 2. Benedictine church, as
alfo the collegiate-churches of St. "Jobn and St. Andrew, St. Peter's chapel
and other public edifices. In the fubjacent city alfo is a large market-place,
in the centre of which ffands a beautiful marble ftatuc of the Virgin Mary^
together with the church of St. George, agymnafium o( Benedictines, a Francifcan
convent, an orphan-houfe and a hofpital. Without the city are the
billiop's gardens, as a.ho Neufli/t, a convent o^ prcrmonflratenfes. On the
other mountain which lies weft of the city, and was formerly called ^etmons,
is- the Bi-'nedicfine abbey oiWeihen-Stephan^ and below it the collegiate-church
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