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old citadel in it. The inhabitants of this place apply themfelves to the
culture ot tobacco. In it too is a pretty Latifi {chool. In the year 1596
Bernhard Marjhal of Oflheim founded a nunnery for ladies at this place.
Metzeh and Schwallungen, both parochial-villages.
Lower-Schmalkaldefj, a village.
4. The prefedlurate of Sand. In it is
Siiitierjhaufen, an eflate, v^^hich was formerly a monaftery.
Georgenzell, alfo formerly a cloyfter.
Zilbach, a hunting-houfe : And
The parochial-villages of Rofe, in which is a nobleman's eftate, Frittelfhaufen
and Lower-Katza.
5. The prefed:urate of Frauenbreitungen. In it is
Fraueiibreitungen, a market-town, feated on the river IVerra. Formerly
there was an Augiijline nunnery at this place which anciently belonged to
the foundation of Hersjeld. King Henry IV. too frequently refiding here,
it was from thence alfo called Konigsbreitungen.
Altenbreitungen, a village, feated on the river Werra.
Wernshaufen, a parochial-village.
The noble eftates and feat« of Kmllenbach, Kramerfdorfy Neuenroday
Far?ibach, Meimershof, and Beyeroda.
6. The town and prefefturate of Salzungen. In it is
Salzungen, a fmall town, feated on the Werra, and taking Its name
from the falt-fprings there. Of thefe fait fprings there are two in particular,
one of which rifes in the town, and this is reckoned the beft, its water being
eight loths * rich. The other lies before the Nappen-gate, and the water
of this is only between fix and feven loths. The pannery here, or the right
of falt-works, depends on chancery-writ.
Not far, or at moft about one quarter of an hour's diflance from the
town, is an acid fpring called the Grundhof.
On a mountain too at no great diftance from the town of Salzungeny
formerly ftood a citadel, named Frankenftein, which had its own Lords.
7. The prefefturate of Altenstein belonged anciently to the Lords
Hutiden of Wenkheim^ together with the high and low jurifdidion thereof;
but thefe Lords becoming extindl in 1722, it reverted, as an open fief, to
the princely houfe of Saxe-Meinungen. In it is
in
Altenßein, a citadel.
Schweina, a large market-town, with a citadel and an orphan-houfe
it.
The villages of Steinbach, Gumpelßadt, and Walfifch, together with the
feats of Proßfch and Erbach.
* A German loth is half an ounce. The rlchnefs then, I fuppofe, of this water confifis in
io many half ounces of fait to a certain portion of lymph.
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