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Ehrenfels.] GERMANY.
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The
Princely Abbeys?/'
Lowe r-M u n s t e r at Ratifbon.
np HIS abbey of Nuns was founded by Judith, daughter to Duke Ar~
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nold, or Amulph of Bavaria, confort to Duke Henry I. of that dutchy,
and grandmother to the Emperor Henry II. The firfl; building of this
cloyfter is placed in the year 900. The title of its abbefs is: By the Grace
of God of the Holy Roman Empire Pri?iC(fs, and of the Imperial, free
highly-noble foundation 0/ Lower-Munfler in Ratifbon Abbefs. At the Diet
of the Empire (he pofleffes the thirteenth place on the Rheniß: bench of
prelates, and in the circle of Bavaria the feventh on the fpiritual bench.
Her Imperial matricular evaluation was in 1683 fixed at ten florins, but to
each chamber-term fhe is to pay fifty rixdollars, fixy-feven kruitzers and a
half. This foundation with refpedl to fpiritual affairs flands under the
bifliopric of Ratisbon. The Eledor of Bavaria is proteclor of it. The
ladies of the foundation may marry out of it, and their manner of life is not
clauftral.
I'he
Seigniory of
EHR E N F E L S.
'Tp H E feigniory of Ehrenfeh, or Errifeh, lies in the dutchy of Neuburg^
and its pfleg- amt of Beretzhaufen, being fituated on the river Laber.
Anciently it belonged to the Bavarian family of Stauff] which in the year
1432 purchafed of the Lords of Laber the market-town o( Beretzhaufen,
fituated below the fort of Ehrenfels, and was alfo pofl"efled of the fort of
Sinching, which lies in the pfleg-amt of Haidaii in Lower-Bavaria, as alfo
of other efliates. In the fifteenth century it was divided into the lines of
Ebrenfels and Siiiching. The latter became extind in the fixteenth century
in its male-heirs, upon which its females difpofed of the citadel and manor
of Sinchijtg to the family of Senjheim. The line of Ehrenfcls was alfo poffelTed
of the citadels of Kcfering and Triftlßng in the above-mentioned
Lower- Bavarian pfleg-amt of Haidaii, and Hkewife of the feigniory of
Schonberg; but came gradually to great decay, and fold off" one feigniory
after another, till at length John Bernhard of Staiiff', the laft of this name,,
alienated Hkewife in 1567 the feigniory ci Ehrenfels to the Pfalzgrave H'olJ-
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