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478 GER MANY. [Hohenlohc.
2. The 'Jagß^ which comes out of the principality of Onolzbach, and»
after quitting the county, enters into the archbifhopric of Mentz. 3. The
Tauber, which runs into the prefedlurates oi Schillingsjurß and JVeikerßeim,
and paffes out of the latter into th^ mafterdom of Mergentbelm. 4. The
JVcrnitz, which rlfes at Frankenau not far from Schillingsfurß, and paffes
through the territory of Rothenburg into the principahty of Onolzbach.
§. 4. This county contains in it ten cities, three market-towns, and
twelve citadels,
§. 5. The Reformation, which was begun here in 1540 was thoroughly
.completed in i 556 ; fo that ever fince that time the whole country has acknowledged
the Vroitiiint Lutheran church. But in 1667 Count Lewis
Guftavui oi Hobenhhe-^chiUingsjurß going over to the Koman-C2xh.Q\\c church,
and his elder brother Count Chrijlian of Hohenkhe-Bartenßein foon after
following him, hereupon arofe many vexations and grievances to the
Proteftant fubjedls in the Hobenlohe-Waldenburg countries, at that time under
Counts, but now under Princes, from the year 1718, though ftill more
fiom 1728, and moft of all from 1744. The ftate of the church here is
as follows : Firff, there are three churches in common belonging to the
whole houfe of Hohenlohe, namely thofe at Oehringen, and the feudal
pariflies of Oettelfingen and Schupf, of which a larger account has been
given below. Next, there are ftill fifty-nine pariflies in the county ; for
to the principal line of Neuenßein belong thirty-feven, and to that of JVal~
dcnburg twenty-two. About the year 1579 was eredted a general or upper
confiftory at Oehringen, before which all cafes of greatefl importance in
the church, and likewife the matrimonial affairs of the whole county were
to be brought. At that time alfo confiflorial regulations in common were
made; but as all manner of inconveniences were found to arife therefrom,
io matters relating thereto were decided at the Proteftant adminiftration-office
oi Oehringen,
or at the particular confiflory and the infpeftlonofBce
in each feigniory to which they belonged, though always according
to the rule of the above-mentioned confiflorial regulations 3 or if they regarded
the county in common, were maturely confidered, at the option of
the Sovereign, at the particular confiftories and infpeftions, and at the Senium
Evangelicum an end put to them according to the votes and deliberations
made,
§. 6. The youth here receive their inflrudlion as vftW'xniht gymnafium
at Oehringen, as in the Latin fchools of the other towns,
§. 7, According to Mr. Hanfelmann^ rejearcbes and ilJußrafion of the origin
end propagation of the family cf liohenlche, we mufl form to ourfelves the
following conception of it. Conrad the Wife, Duke in Franconia and Lorrain,
had a fon named Otto, whole third fon Qmo, or Conrad, gave rife
to the younger line of this ducal Fronconian family, and whofe fhare in the
datchy oi EaJl~Fra7icenia confided chiefly of the country between the Mayn
and