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Henneberg.] GERMANY. 463
§. 3. In mod of Its diftriös agriculture is purfued with tolerable profit
and fucctfs. In ibme places alio tobacco is cultivated. Near Ilmenau are
even yet mines of copper and lilver, and Vi'ith refpedt to thofe of iron and
fleel they are ftill more numerous here. At Salziingen and Schmalkalden
is made lalt, and in fome places alfo are medicinal fprings. The principal
river in this country is the IVerra, which comes out of the principality of
Hildbwghaufen, and near the village of Sigritz enters the county of Henneberg
where, after dividing itfelf into two parts, it receives into it the little
rivers of Schleufz^ Schimrza, Felde, and other fmaller flreams, continues
its
courfe through this country into the landgravate of Hejfe.
§. 4. In it we find ten boroughs and five market-towns.
§. 5. No other religion than that of the Luchera?is is ufually praftifed
here, excepting that at Schmalkalden is alfo a Proteftant Cahoinijl church. At
Schletifmgen is a gymnajiwn, and in the other towns are alfo pstty Lati?i
fchools.
§. 6. Befides the fuftian-manufadares at Meinungen and Suhla, and thofe -
likewife for arms, iron, and fteel at Suhla and Schfnalkalden, there are no
other manufadlures of any confideration in this country.
§. 7. The very ancient family of the former Counts of Hcnnebcrg firft
began to alTume that title in the eleventh century. In the thirteenth century
it was divided into three principal lines ; namely, into thofe of Schleufj?ig,
Afchach, and Harienberg, ' In the year 1310 Count Berthold X. was
raifed to the princely dignity; notwithftanding which the Princes of He?j-
7ieberg have generally made ufe of the title of Count. Exclufive of what
is even at this day reckoned as belonging to the princely county of Henneberg,
that houfe has alfo been in the poffefiion of the prefent principalities
of Coburg and Hildburghaujen, which are called the new feigniory of Henneberg;
as likewife of the prefedlurate oi Fijchberg, which the foundation of
Fulda has again releafed, and feveral other places, which are now fallen to
the bifliopric oi Wurzburg. In 1554 the Princes William and George Er-
Tiefl entered into a league of fuccelTion with the princely houfes of Saxe-
Coburg and HeJfe. But the male flock of Henneberg becoming extinft in
the year 1583 in the perfon of Prince George Erneji, the proper princely
county, or old feigniory of Henneberg, devolved to Saxe-Coburg, and the
town and feigniory of Schmalkalden wholly to the houfe o^ Heffe, The places
and eftates, which the biOiopric o^ Wurzburg has obtained, were incorporated
with that fee before the extindion of the Princes of Hennebcrg. The abovementioned
country foon departed from the line oi Saxe-Coburg, and was both
pofTeffed and governed in common by the eledloral houfe of Saxony, and the
Dukes o{ Saxony, Altenburg, and Weimar. The Eleftor 'John George I. left his
fliare therein to his youngeft fon Duke Maurice. But the princely fliarers of
the county coming to confider the inconveniency of their government
thereof came to an agreement in 1660, at Weimar^ concerning a divifion of
the