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Onolzbach.] G E R M A N T, 44.1<br />

Birketifch, a decayed citadel.<br />

4. The vogt-amt <strong>of</strong> Flachßand:n. In it is<br />

Flachßanden, a borough, having a good leather-manufaftory.<br />

5. The vogt-amt <strong>of</strong> IVeidatbachy in which is<br />

Weidenbach, a parochial-village.<br />

Trierfdorf, a coniiderable princely farm, having a pleafure-caftle and<br />

park.<br />

II. The upper-prefedlurate <strong>of</strong> Schvvabach. In it<br />

I. Swabach, one <strong>of</strong> the head-towns <strong>of</strong> this principality, and a principal<br />

mint-town <strong>of</strong> the circle <strong>of</strong> Franconia, as alfo the feat <strong>of</strong> the upper-amt,<br />

which takes its name from it, and likewife <strong>of</strong> a decanate, lying in a very<br />

fruitful fpot on a river <strong>of</strong> that name, in a rugged and mountainous bottom,<br />

and being indeed not large but very populous. Exclufive <strong>of</strong> the Lutheran<br />

parifn-church here, as alfo <strong>of</strong> a h<strong>of</strong>pital with a church in it, and the Latin<br />

fchool, in this town likewife is a French Calvinifi church, and a "Jews<br />

fchool. In the market-place here is a fine fountain adorned with cafcades<br />

znd Jet d' Eaus. The mint, which was eredled in 1733 and 1754, is<br />

very <strong>com</strong>modioufly laid out. The new fuburb before the ZoHner gate is<br />

built in a very regular manner. Formerly there was a ktter-foundery<br />

here, in which the Schwabach letters, which were invented at and denominated<br />

from this place, were caft. Exclulive <strong>of</strong> the <strong>com</strong>mon handicraft<br />

trades, here are alfo pencil-makers, and artificers in gold and filver-kce j<br />

as likewife gold, filver, Leon or Spaniß: fleel, and iron wire-drawers j together<br />

with brafs-turners, who make lleeve-buttons, model-cutters, needlemakers,<br />

wh<strong>of</strong>e work is held in great repute far and near, and who make<br />

above thirty different forts <strong>of</strong> needles ; artificers in brafs, who among<br />

other things make fine metal flioe-buckles ; ftocking-weavers, <strong>of</strong> whom<br />

there are two hundred mafters in this town, who employ about three<br />

hundred looms j tobacco-fpinners, tapiftry-weavers, who make fine<br />

tapiftry, and divers <strong>of</strong> whom have removed to Viemia, Berlin, DreJden,<br />

Stuttgardt, and other places, and there fet up the like manufadlures<br />

; cloth and fiiuff-makers, cloth-fhearers and preparers. In this<br />

town alfo is prepared an exceeding fine and beautiful meal, which is exported<br />

far and near.<br />

Sclywabach belonged anciently to the Dukes <strong>of</strong> Schii'abach,<br />

and was made a donation <strong>of</strong> in 1 133 to the cloyfter <strong>of</strong> Eberach, by<br />

Duke Frederick I. who arrived afterwards to be Emperor ; which cloyfter<br />

difp<strong>of</strong>ed <strong>of</strong> this place in 1281 to King Rudolph I. -From this lad it defcended<br />

to the Counts <strong>of</strong> Najfau, who fold it to the Burggrave <strong>of</strong> Nürnberg,<br />

which fale by fome has been afcribed to the Emperor Adolphin <strong>of</strong> Naff'au.<br />

But there is a letter <strong>of</strong> purchafe extant, by which the firft, Burggrave Frederick<br />

V. purchafed the markt <strong>of</strong> Schwabach at the fame time with the<br />

forts <strong>of</strong> Kammerßein and Komburg, namely in 1364, in which very year<br />

alfo he was invelled with th<strong>of</strong>e places by the Emperor Charles IV. In 1528<br />

Vol. V. L 1 1 th<strong>of</strong>e

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