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Eichftetü.] GERMANY.<br />

429<br />

Dietenh<strong>of</strong>en^ a borough and citadel, containing a fuperintendency.<br />

3. Mark Erlbach, a fmall town, in which is a criminal prefedlurate<strong>of</strong>fice.<br />

Rem. The Marggraves <strong>of</strong> Brandenhirg-Ciihnbach are p<strong>of</strong>lelTed<br />

<strong>of</strong> confiderable<br />

fiefs in the arch-dutchy <strong>of</strong> Auflria, which we have treated <strong>of</strong> in<br />

Vol. iv. Thefe fiefs defcended to them from the time <strong>of</strong> the Emperor<br />

Lewis o^ Bavaria, to whom the i urggrave Frederick IV. granted afliftance<br />

againft his <strong>com</strong>petitor, Duke Frederick <strong>of</strong> Aiißria, enabling him to over<strong>com</strong>e<br />

his antagonift. Upon which the Emperor made the Burggrave a prefent<br />

<strong>of</strong> the rich Außrian nobility, whom he had taken prifoners in the battle,<br />

together with their fiefs, which prifoners the Burggrave releafed on condition,<br />

that they fliould receive their fiefs for ever <strong>of</strong> the Burggraves, as the<br />

donation letters <strong>of</strong> 1328 teftify. The Emperor Charles IV. confirm.ed this<br />

donation in 1363 in fuch manner, that the Burggraves <strong>of</strong> Nürnberg, on<br />

account <strong>of</strong> all their fiefs in the dutchies and feigniories <strong>of</strong> the Dukes oi Außria,<br />

were to have the Roma?! Emperors, or Kings, and the Empire as their<br />

Superiors for ever. The number <strong>of</strong> thefe noblemen amounted to about<br />

1 160, and the fiefs to thirty-two counties and feigniories, and two hundred<br />

eommon fiefs.<br />

Bishopric <strong>of</strong><br />

EICHSTETT,<br />

"Jhe<br />

the bifliopric <strong>of</strong> Eichßctt, or Aichßadt, John Baptiß Homann<br />

^^ has publiflied a pretty good land-chart, which in the At/as <strong>of</strong><br />

§. i.f^F<br />

Germany conftitutes the fixty-eighth.<br />

§. 2. This principality terminates on the upper-palatinate, Upper-Bavaria,<br />

the dutchy <strong>of</strong> Neuburg, the county <strong>of</strong> Fappenheim, and the principality<br />

<strong>of</strong> Onolzbach, by which alfo feveral detached parts <strong>of</strong> it are environed.<br />

§. 3. The principal rivers by which this country is watered are the Altmiihl,<br />

which <strong>com</strong>es out <strong>of</strong> the principality <strong>of</strong> O^o/^^^rZ', and in this bifliopric<br />

receives in it the little rivers oi Anlauter, Sckwarzach auA Sulz, after<br />

which it enters into Upper-Bavaria. The Under and Upper-Retzat run alfo<br />

through fome parts <strong>of</strong> this biftopric.<br />

§. 4. In it we find ten towns and one market-town. Land-ftates there<br />

are none here. The inhabitants are Roman-c?i\ho\\c. The epifcopal jurifdidion<br />

is divided into eight rural decanates, which have their refiden'ce at<br />

Eichßetty Berching, Spalt, Herrieden, Hilpoltjkin, EJchenbach, Neumark and<br />

Jngolßadf,

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