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Bamberg.]
GERMANY.
be reckoned in particular the wines of Altenburg, Beringsßeld, and Zeiler.
It yields likewife fafFron, and a very good fort of liquorice, the latter of
which grows in great plenty at the capital town of Bamberg in particular,
near which alfo are fuch numbers of laurel, fig, lemon, and orange-trees,
that this fpot is ftiled, by fome, the little Italy of Germany. Their breed
of cattle here is alfo important. The bifhopric of Bamberg yields likewife
good woods, and fome battery works. The Mayn, which iffues out of
this principality above the Gebirge traverfes the north part of this country,
and receives the Rotacb and Itz, and more particularly the Rednitz, in Latin
Radantia, the latter of which comes out of this principality below the
Gebirg ; below Forchheim it receives into it alio the little river Wijent, and
after that the ftill leffer rivers oi Aijch, (^anciently Afcba, and Eifga) Reich-
Eberach, Rauhe-Ebcrach, and Urach.
§. 4. The principality of Bamberg, contains in it eighteen boroughs, and
fifteen market-towns. Land-States it has none. The whole country is
zealoufly addidled to the Roman-C'Sit}c\oX\c dodtrine and wordiip.
§. 5. This country belonged anciently for the greatefl; part of it to the
powerful Counts of Babenberg. Of thefe Count Henry left two fons behind
him, namely Reinhard and Albrecbt, whom Adolphus, bidiop of Wurzburg,
attacked in the year 902, but was beaten by them. Count Reinhard was
flabbed in an unlucky battle by Count Conrad, brother's fon to the Emperor
Leicis in. But his brotRer Albrecht wanting to revenge his death,
purfued the faid Count and flew him. Upon this King Leivis III.
caufed Count Albrecht to be fummoned before the Diet of the Empire at
^rebur, there to anfwer for himfelf ; but he not appearing, he befieged
him in his flrong caflle of Altenbwg ; upon which Albrecht either wülinglj?-
furrendered to the King, or was feduced to come to him. to the camp,
where he was beheaded as a rebel. This Prince therefore being the laft
of his houfe, the county of Babenberg fell, in the year qoS to the Empire.
The Emperor Otto IlL made a donation of it to his filler's fon, He7vy
Duke of Bavaria, who was chofen King after him. This latter refolved to
convert the ccur.ty of Babenberg into a bifhopric, which happened accordingly
in the year 1006. The King and his confort Cwiigunda confiderably endowed
this new bilhopric, and Eberhard, the King's chancellor, who was made tlie
firft bifhop thereof in the year 1007, was not only confirmed by Pope BcnediSi
VIIL but alfo exempted from all archiepifcopal jurifdidlion. The
like and even fi:!!! greater privileges and prerogatives were obtained of Pope
ClemerJ IL by the fecond bilhop thereof named Suidger of Mayendorf.
§. 6. Thus the bifhop of Bamberg {lands immediately under the papal
fee, and within his own diocefe may even adl as arthbifhop. From the
Pope he receives, in lieu of a good round fum, iht pallium. King Henry,
the founder of this biflbopric, has appointed the King of Bohefnia upper
cup-bearer to it ; the Ele(3:or-palatine upper fewer ) the Eledor of Saxony
uppc;
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