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Wurzburg.] GERMANY.
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§. 4. In this principality we find thirty-three boroughs and about ten
market-towns, Provincial-States it has none.
§. 5. The prevailing religion here is the TJöw^ff-catholic ; bat there are
aMo Lutheran and Cdviniß churches within the ecclefiaftical jurifdidion and
territory of JVurzburg, which from time to time, prefer to the Diets of
the Empire grievous complaints of oppreflion and injuftice.
In the fixteenth
century this bifhopric abounded in proteflant inhabitants. To the ecclefialiical
jurifdidion of the bißiopric of Wurzburg belong fixteen land-deanries,
which are held at Buchheim (in the archbiOiopric of Mcniz) at Buhlcrthait^
Detielbach, Ebeni., Ipbofen, Gerolzhojen, and Korlßadt, (in the laft of which
are two, namely one for the upper and one ior the lower diftrid) at Krautheim
(in the eledorateof Aft'«/2;j ä.tMellerichßadt, and Mcrgentheim, (the latter of
which belongs to the high and Teutonick mafterdoin,) at M^j/zbach in the
eledorate palatine, at Mu7inerßadt, and Neckar-Ulm, (which latter lies in
the mafterdom of Mergentheim,) at Ochfenfurt, and Schhißelfeld ; and
nineteen prelatures, to which are, moreover to be added three noble foundations.
§. 6. It is true, that the holy Bifliop Kilian came about the year 686^^
for the firft time, to Wurzburg, where at that time refided Gozbert Duke
of I'buringia, whom he baptized in the year 687. But yet he was nut the
fix^Y)\i[^o^ of Wurzburg, St. Burchard ürd obtaining this office about the
year 741, being alfo placed there and confecrated by St. Boniface. On this
Bifhop Burchard the Frankiß) King Pipin conferred the dutchy of
JFrankenland, as underftood at this day : But it being demonftrable that
the modern Frankenland was, in the time of King Pipin, no peculiar and
feparate country, and that the name of Eafl-Franken, or Frankenland, was
not then appropriated to the modern Frankenland, fo King Pipin could not
have made a donation of the prefent dutchy of Frankenland to the church of
IVurzburg. In the ads of the Emperor Lewis I, and likewife in thofe of Arnulph,
are adduced twenty-fix churches, together with certain marks, tithes,
and arriere-bans, which Karlmann, Pipin, and other religious people made
a donation of to St. Burchard and the church of Wurzburg ; but by thefe
can neither the extent of the epifcopal jurifdidion, nor that of the
dutchy be proved, efpecially as before, namely, both under and after Karlmann
and Pipin there were indifputably Counts in Frankenland. And juft
as little does the tenth part of certain royal incomes from Faß-Frankenland,
which was beftowed on tiie church of Wurzburg, together with the right
of receiving the ^lavi into the eftates of the church, and the immunity
imparted to it, ferve as a proof of the dutchy. Neither can the ducal title,
which the bifhops of Wurzburg bear at this day, be derived from Charlemagne,
C'jnrad \. Henry I. Otto I. II. and III. Äv/ry II. or Conrad II.
For either the ads, which are produced in fupport of them, are fpurious,
or no mention is made in them of the dutchy of Frankenland. One ad
extant