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88 GERMANY, [Franconia.
Tubergau, was fituated, among others, Mergentheim. The Miilachgau, or
Mukcgau, and the Oringau, or Orgau, are to be fought for in the county
of Hohenlohe. Of the Kraichgau a part alfo is to be reckoned as belonging
to this dutchy ; and of the Kochengau, which lies on the river Kocher, a
part is to be found in the county of Limburg. In the middle age Eaß
Frankenland extended to the Rhine, comprizing in it alfo the Albegau, Angerifgau,
Einriche, Kimigeß:)U}idra, Lobdengau, Loganacgau, Nitehe, JSfitherfi,
Rloei7jgaic,
&;c.
§. 4. Of the ancient provincial judicatories in Franco7iia there are flill
fome exiftent; as, namely, the Imperial provincial-jurifdidion of the
burggravate of Nurenberg, the Imperial provincial-jurifdidion of Hirfchherg,
in the bifhopric of Aichßetf, and the Wurzburg provincial-jurifdidtion,
of which more fully below in their proper place.
§. 5. A confiderable part of the Rafl-Frankenland of the middle age»
which was fituate to the north and wefl:, belongs at prefent to other
circles j and of the modern Frankenland, the immediate nobility of the Empire
in that county are pofleffed of a confiderable part, but the remaining
and greatefl part thereof conilitutes the circle of Franconia > of which we
here treat.
Of the Circle of Franconia
in
particular.
§.i. C\F the circle of Fraficonia, firfl Sanfon, and after him yaillot, de
^^ Witt, Valk and Dankerts delineated land-charts ; but thefe charts
come not up to thofe which John Bapt. Homann has publifhed on two fheets
in his Atlas of Germany, number fixty-five, though even thefe are ftill in
want of great improvement.
§.2. This circle terminates on thofe oi Bavaria, Swabia, the Eledoral-
Rhenißj, Upper-Rhenißo and Upper-Saxon circle, as alfo on Bohemia. It
is one of the fmallefl circles, its extent amounting only to about four hundred
and eighty-four geographical fquare miles.
§.3. The prefent States of the circle divide it in fuch a manner into four
benches, that to the fpiritual bench of Princes belong the biihoprics of
Bamberg, Wurzlurg and Eichßadf, together with the Teutonick order ; to the
fecular bench of Princes, Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Brandenburg-Anfpacht
Henncberg-Schluefingen, Henneberg-Romhild, 'H.e7ineberg-Schmalkalden, Schwarzenberg,
Lowenßein-Wertheim znd Hohenlohe-Walde?2biirg ; to the bench of
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