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Hohenlohc] GERMANY. 481
is at the fame time adminiflratorof the feoda! lordfliips thereof. Each reigning
line has its peculiar chancery and officers.
§. 1 1 . The more accurate defcription ot the county of Hohenlobe falls under
three principal divifions : we being to delcribe
I. The places in common to the whole houfe of Hoheiikhe ;
which are,
I. Oehringcn, in ancient records ftyled Oringowc, Oreugaive and Orengew,
the capital of the county, feated on the rivulet of OhrUt which runs between
the old and new town. One half of this place belongs to the 0(?^'-
ringen line, and the other to the whole of the princely or Waldeiiburg
capital line. The former has its reßdence at the magnificent caftle here, to
which adjoins a fine pleafure-garden. The building called the Stone-houfe
is a grand ftrudture enclofed by a wall with a fpacious court to it, and belongs
to the princely Waldenbiirg line. At this place alfo is a building
which is allotted for the refidence of the Countefs-dowager. The churches
and preachers there are alfo in common. Of the former there are two
here, mz. the foundation and principal church and that of the fpital.
The lazar-houfe has a chapel, and the burial-place without the town has
alfo a church. Of the genera], or upper-confiftory, which formerly was
held here, an account has been given, §. 5. At prefent the common confiftory
of Hohenlobe-Pfcdelbach is held here, as likewife a peculiar confiftory
cit\\e Neue?7ßein\\nQ. The gymnq/ium here wa.s, in the year 1735, formed
on the plan of a gyimiafmm tllußre. In this town alfo are kept the common
archives. Oehringen was a town fo early as the thirteenth century.
In its neighbourhood lie the mountains of Galberg, Lindclberg^ Verreberg,
Pfaffenberg and Heynberg ; the two firft of which yield excellent fruit,
and the others a fine wine.
2. Oettelfingen^ a feodal parifli, feated in the maflerdom of MtT^^;///6f/w,
which is at prefent occupied by the Seniutn eva?igelicum of Hohenlobe, but
was formerly held in fief of the county by the family of Rofenbcrg.
3. Scbup/j a feodal-parifh, fituated in the noble borough of Under-
Schupf, which lies not far from Oettelßiigen,
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