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GERMANY. [Culmbach.-
1. Hoft in Latin Curia, Curia Varifcorum, or Curia Regnitiana, the third
among the fix head towns of this principality ;
and lying on the river
Saal, which above this place receives into it the Upper, and below it the
Under-Regnitz. Hof has three fuburbs belonging to it, being likewife the
feat of the provincial-captainOiip, and a'revenue, as alfo of a fpital and cloyfter
prefedurate, and a fuperintendent. In it too are four churches, together
with a gymnafmm, and a good woollen manufadture. In the records of the
thirteenth century this place is fimply called Curia Regnitz and HoJ, but
afterwards came to be called Regnizhof. It ftands in the ancient country
of Varifcia. The old town here was built in the year loSo near the citadel
which was then already in being ; but the new town was founded towards
the beginning of the thirteenth century by Otto I. and II. Dukes oi Merati;
and in the year 1248, on the death of the latter, coming to Otfo Count of
Orlavmnd, it was carried on by him ;
and about the year 1250 finiüied by
the Elder, Vogt of Weyda, to whom it came by purchafe, with
its annexed jurildidtion. In 1323 the Em.peror Le'iX)ii inverted the Burggrave
Frederick IV. of Nürnberg with this town and feigniory ; and in
1373 Henry, Vogt oi Weyda M^okdi oi it, together with other places, to
the Burff