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426 GERMANY. [Culmbach..
tlrereoF'; upon which, in 1282, the Burggrave obtained ths inveftiture of
it of King Rudolph. In the year 1730, the Emperor Charles IV. granted the
Burg(^Ta.vc Frederick V . the liberty of building a town between the two fortrefTes
of the rough and Jlight Culm.
2. The villages oi Kircheii-Leibach and Wirbenz-.
2. In the U N D E R-L A N D;.
I. The prefe£lurate-captainfifip of Erlang : to which belongs,
I. Erlang, the laft of the fix head-towns, as they are called, of thia
principality, lying not far from the Rednitz, which at this place receives
into it the Schwabach, and confills of two towns, namely the Old and
New, the latter of which is other wife called Chri/Iian-Erlang, and is en^vironed
with a wall of free-ftone j but this is not yet quite finiflicd.
Old-Erlang, a veiy ancient place, which belonged to the Ratingau and:
in which a church was built for the ufe of the Slavi, whom Charlemagne
removed thither. This town is four hundred paces long;, but not by a
great deal fo wide. It has a peculiar raagiflracy of its own, and after the
great fire, which happened there in 1706, was rebuilt again with greater
regularity. So early as the year i 632 it was likewife deftcoyed by the fame
dreadful calamity. In it is a Proteftant Lutheran church.
Neio, or Cbrißian-Erlang, a town, which was begun to be ereded in.
1686 by the Marggrave Chrißian Er?ieß, and was named from him, lies
clofe by Old-Erlang, being diftinguiflied therefrom by nothing elfe than
the ftraightnefs of its ftreets. This place is one. of the fineft towns in
all Germany, its ftreets being perfedly ftraight and broad, and the houfes
in the principal of them two ftory high, excepting the corner ones which
are three ftory. In it is a fquare of eight hundred paces, which is not yet quite
finiftied ; as alfo a market-place one hundred and ten paces long and broad,
the eaft fide of which is occupied by the maggravial palace, built of freeftone
three ftories in height ; and behind it is a very large, pleafant and
fine garden,, planted with rows of cheftnut and lime-trees, a Proteftant
Lutheran church, together with, one for the French Cahinißs, and another,
for the German Cahinißs. The firft of thefe churches is the fineft. In
J 704 Chriflopher Adam of Trockau founded a riding academy here ; but
in 1743 the Marggrave Frederick reinoved thither the Frederick univerfity,
which had been founded by him at Bayreuth in 1742, and which, on the
fourth d.iy of November, was obferved accordingly with great folemnity,
and fubftituted into the place of the above-faid riding academy. The gymnaßum
here too was incorporated with it. This univerfity has a church of
its own. The refugee French Cahinißs have fet up fome confiderable manufadures
in this town, among which thofe of ftockings and hats are the
moft profitable.
Erlange