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Sulzbach.] GERMANY.
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fucceflbr in the eleiflorate, Charles Philip "Theodore, o^ the SuIzbachYmQ, took
pofleflion of this lordfhip ; but the Emperor Charles Yl. having, in 1725,
granted the adminiftration thereof to Count Philip Lewis of S,iiizendorf\ in
the year 1745, it was feized by the Außriaji army as a fief efcheated to the
crown of Bohemia, and conferred on John William, fon to the above-mentioned
Count Sinzendorf. This lordfhip contains in it
Bleißein, a fmall town and a mountain-caftle, which lies in ruins.
SULZBACH,
II. The Principality of
Has alfo a particular government of its own, together with a tribunal.
The inhabitants and churches here are at prefent partly Lutheran and partly
Romaiz-cz.t.h.o\\c. The affairs of the Lutheran confiftory here are managed
by the government, in which two Proteftant counfellors prefide. The
Lutheran miniftry of this principality confifts of three diocefes ; namely,
Sulzbach, Weyden and Vohenflraufz. The two laft are immediately under
the direäion of the government of Sulzbach, and the firft alfo under its
infpedlion.
The principality of Sulzbach comprehends in it
. I. The provincial-court oi Sulzbach in the Nordgau, containing in It
Sulzbach, the capital of the principality and the refidence of the
regency and tribunal, as alfo of the upper foreft and final-courts. In it
are not many above three hundred houfes, but it confifts of two parts j
viz. Of the upper, which ftands on a hill and is divided by a wall from
the lower part, which is called the Bach, or Brook. This lower town lies on
the Rofcnbach, having in it a plentiful fpring, whence the inhabitants of the
upper-town fetch their water. The Prince's palace here ftands on a rock
oppohte the upper-town to the fouth-weft. Towards the weft alfo lies a
fuburb. The Lutheran church within the town has two minifters belono--
ing to it J
namely, the infpedfor and the town-minilter, who was formerly
alio called the fuperintendant and city-prceter. The Lutherans are likewife
poffeffed of a grammar-fchool here. The Ronia?i-CA\.\\o\ic clergy in this
town are a dean and four afiillants. The Ronui7i-ca.th.o\\cs have alfo a
Latin fchool here, and ever fince the year 1733
a Capuchin convent. This
town had anciently Counts of its own, who took their name from hence,
but failed in the perfon of Gebhard V In its neighbourhood too is an
iron-mine.
The Lutheran parilLes here are, i. Rofenberg and Poppenried; 2. Illfchwang;
3. Furnriet ; 4. Etzelwang, Ehrnhull and Kirch-Rhcinbach
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5. Edelsfeid and Kurmreuth ; 6. Eijzmansberg^ and, 7. Neukirchen,
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