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Pailau.] GERMANY,
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§. 5. To the epifcopal cathedral, fo far as its jurifditftion extends over
Bavaria, appertain two collegiate churches, together with thirteen abbeys
and priories, and ten rural deaneries, which include in them three hutidred
and twentv-elght places of worfliip. It reaches alfo a great way into
Aiißria. See Vol. iv. p. 252.
§. 6. According to Ertel the revenues of this bifliopric amount to
80,000 crowns.
§. 7. To the principality of Pajfati belongs
Pajau, in Latin Patavia, and originally Bafava, the capital, being well
built, and lying on the Danube, which at this place and alfo on this fide
receives into it the Ihn or Inn, and on the north fide the IIz, which is fo
famous for beautiful pearls. It confifts of three towns, namely ofthat which
is properly called Paffau, and lies betwixt the rivers Danube and Inn-,
of the Innjiadt, in Latin Civifas Ocnana, which ftands on the other fide
of the Inn, being joined with the former by means of a bridge, and
ftanding on the fide of the ancient town of Bojodurum ; and laftly of the
Ilzßaät, in Latin Civitas Ilzeußs, which lies on the north fide of the Danube,
where it receives into it the Hz. The laft of thefe rivers runs betwixt
the Ilzjiadt and the mountain of St. George, on which flands the caflle of
Oberhaufz. From this fortrefs a bridge leads over the Danube into the
road to Paßau. The city on thofe fides of it which are furrounded by
the water is without walls, but towards the land-fide or Bavaria is fortified
both with ramparts and ditches. The cathedral here, which is dedicated
to St. Stephen, was, together with the city, burnt down in the year 1662,
but rebuilt again with great fplendor. On an eminence near it fiands the bi-
{hop's palace.
Exclufive too of the parilli-church of St. Paul and fome others,
in this city is likewife a convent of BenediSlines, which is the oldeft in the
place, as alfo a Francifcan and a Capuchin convent, together with a college
ofjefuits. On the hill, at the foot of which lies the Innßadt, flands alfo
the pilgrim-church called Mariahulj, and not far from the proper town of
Pajfau on the river Inn lies the convent of St. Nicholas, in which are regular
canons of the order of St. Aiigußi?ic.
Pajjau enjoys a very good fituation for trade. The mofl: ancient account
of it appears to be in the Notitia Imperium, v^'hich was probably made
about the year 427, under the Emperor Honcrius, and in which, under the
Duke of Rhaetia, the Nova cohors Batavoruju was affigncd to the Batavi.
It remained under the power of the Romans till after the year 47';, when
it was taken by the ^/fOTßw«/. After that it fell under the dominion of
the Franks, and continued under the government of the Dukes oi Bavaria.
The Emperor Otto III. made It wholly fubjedl, in the year 999, to the
bifhopric. In 1181, 1662, and 1680 it was almoft entirely confumed by
fire, and in 13 16 and 1354, aconfiderablepart of it was alio reduced to afhes.
Vol. V. B b b In