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Culmbacli.] GERMANY. 427
Erlang-, is the feat of the prefedlurate captainfliip, as alfoof a councilcollege
of juftice, of a college of commerce, and a fuperintendency.
2. Frauenaurach, a market-town and prefecturate, which takes its
rife out of a nunnery of ladies, which formerly flood here. This nunnery
was founded between the years 1250 and 1260, and fecularifed towards
-the middle of the lixteenth century.
3. Efchenau, a market-town, which together with its territory, is environed
by the territory of Nürnberg., and lies one large hour from Herclzberg.
The Marggrave Frederick purchafed this place of the family of
Muffel, and reftored it to the adminiftration of its own Amtman. EJclyenau
is
a Bohemian fief.
II. The provincial captaindiip of Neufladt on the Aijch, to which belongs
1. Neufiadt on the Aij'cb, which is the fifth of the fix head-towns, as
•they are called, of this principality, and takes its furname from the rivulet
of Aijch. This town is the feat of the provincial captaindiip and a revenue
prefedlurate, and contains in it a Prince's palace and a fuperintendency, under
which (land thirty-four perfons, as alfo a parifh church, a holpital
with a church in it, and a Latin fchool.
2. Dachsbach, a market-town and citadel, in which is a prefedurate.
-3. Euskirchen, a market-town with a vogtey in it, which was purchafed
in the year 1362 by Godfrey o( Seekendorf for the fum of 1200 lb. kellers.
The French colony here has a church to itfelf.
4. Frauenthal, once a nunnery, but at prefent a cloyfter-amt, together
with its