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Erbach.] GERMANY, 501
Together with four other places.
5. The prefedurate of Ri:icHEKBERG : in which is
R^ichcnberg, a citadel, feated on the borders of the upper county
of Katzenelnbogen.
Rcichcljheim, a parochial-village,
Berfurt, a village, which is divided into Klrch-Berfurt and Ffaffa:-
Berftirt. In the former is a fniall church, or chapel. The latter heiongs
with refpedt to its ground-jurifdiiftion and government, to the foundation of
the Holy-Ghojl at
Heidelberg.
Getjpeuz, a village, which is divided into the Upper and Loiver^ and lies
on a rivulet of the fame name. This place, in conjunction with
Upper-Kei?jfpach., which isalfoa village, conftitutes a particular cantred,
or criminal-jurifdiiftion. The village o^^ Under- Keinfpach was formerly a tief
oi Fulda, but the Eleftor-palatine purchafsd the fuperiority thereof.
Exclufive of eight other places.
6. The prefedlurate of Schonberg. In it is
Scbonberg, anciently called Schonenbnrg, a citadel, which is a pafs leading
out of the Bcrgßrafze into the Odenwald. In the vallev below it lie fome
houfes which form a fmall village, the cantred, or criminal-jurifdiiTtion of
which belongs to Heppenheiniy a kellerey of the Eleäor of Meniz. The
citadel and village are incorporated into one parilh with Benjkeim in the
archbifhopric of Mentz.
Ehnßmujen, or Elmanßaujen, a village, in which is found lead-ore, and
the third part of which has been conferred by the Eledor-palatine on the
houfe of Erbach.
Gadernheim, or Gadern, an old village.
Grünau, a parochial-village, producing a good growth of wine.
The villages of Reichenbach and Rimpach ; the latter of which lies feparate
; together with fix other places.
7. The prefefturate of König, confifting of
König, a parochial-village, which is an ancient place and a fief of the
Elector of Mentz ; together with
The Furß.engrund, which is incorporated into one paridi with König.
8. The prefedlurate of Wildenstein, or the cent-amt of Ejchau,
formerly belonged, as a palatine-fief, to the Counts of Rieneck, and has
now of a long time been mortgaged by them to the houfe of Falkenjtein.
On the extinction of the Counts of Rieneck it reverted, as an open fief, to the
Eledlor-palatine, and by him was ceded, in the year 1560, to the houfe of
Erbach, as property. In it is
Wildenflcin, a citadel, feated on the Spejzhart, and below which lies a;
village.
F.fchaUt
a parochial-village.
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