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432 G E R M A N r. [EicMett.
thence it runs to Altheidek into the village there next to Maiik along the
road from Weifenbiirg to Nürnberg quite to Roth and the Redniiz, and along
the latter before Schwabach till that river mixes its waters with thole of the
Schiücirzach, and alfo along the Schwarzach quite to the Aichenbruck, and
from thence to Rajch, and farther flill to the Rafchbach on Stockehberg quite
through the village to Trautenßjofen, and through that village towards the
Thiajlcin ; from thence again to the Farther Laber and quite down along
the Laber till that river falls again into the Danube at Sifizing.
§. 12. Thus much premifed, now follows the more accurate defcription
of this principality. To it therefore belongs, and that,
I. To the Under -Bishopric.
I. Eichßetfy or At chßadf, the epifcopal refidence, lying in a valley on
the river Altnmhl. The prefent epifcopal reüdentiary-palace, and the building
which ftands over againft, and in which are the princely, fpiritual and
temporal colleges, together with their chanceries and regiftratures, were
built a-new by Bifhop Vrancis Lewis, Baron Schenk of Cajiell. In the
cathedral-church here, befides the great choir, is, moreover, the choir of
St. Willibald, together with nine prebendaries for as many canons ; and in
it were pretended to be found, in the year 1744, the bones of St. Willibald,
in honour of whom John Antony II. caufed a new coftly high altar to
be raifed, which was dedicated in 1745. At the parochial and collegiatechurch
here, or the new collegiate-church of our Lady, is a foundation confining
of a provoft, a dean, a cathedral and a town-minifter, as alfo of
fome canons. At St. Walburg's, church is a nunnery of Beiiediäines, and
in the high altar there, are laid up the breaft-bones ofthat Saint, which
in it,
yield the fo celebrated Walburg oil*. We find here alfo a college of
Jefuits with the Semi?iarium WiHibaldinum, a Domitiican cloyfter, a cloyfter of
regular canoneffes of the congregation oj our Lady, a Capuchin cloyfter and
* This cloyfter ftands on a rocky mountain. The altar in the church is as broad as the
church itfelf, and perhaps a rocic. Above it is a fmali cavity, the fides and bottom of which
are lined with gold, and a (tone covers it. This is called the coffin, and contains the brealtbones
of St. tfallmrg, out of which an oil is faid to flow and force itfelf through the flone,
where it is coileded in drops which are received into a golden trough, and from thence conveyed
into a golden bowl ; after which it is diftributed into fmall vials for the ufe of pilgrims
and benefactors reforting thither, and employed for miraculous cures. This holy flux happens
twice a year, namely, in the fpring and fall, and that on the name and tranflation of
St. JValhiiig ; but fometimes it iflues not, and very often it appears at different feafons of the
year. Somewhat deeper than the church ftands the brewhoufe, and this, at the very time in
which the moifture runs out of St. IFalbuig's grave, is fo full of water that there is neither
working nor flaying in it. The vapours, which are held here for oil, neither burn nor fwim
upon the fuiface of water, but peri'edly mix themfelvcs therewith. Vid. Francis Rothßßhcrs
Jtlas and Jubike Tear, P. iii. p. 367. Seq.
church