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Nürnberg.] GERMANY. 515
account of the town of Nur?! l>erg, that account being written in the year
1072 : Clara ct Celebris -valde his temporihiis (fays he) per Galliam erat
memoria SanBi Sebaldi in Nürnberg. It is probable that the town belonged
neither to the dutchy of Fra?iconia, nor even to that of Swabia, but was
immediately fubjedt to the Emperor ; whence alfo the Emperor Lotharius
was empowered to confer it on Duke Henry the Proud-, who was father to
Duke Henry the Lion, The Emperor C/v/rA'i IV. and /Fc'/.'zr/ promifed to
keep it annexed to the Empire. At the Diet thereof in the college of the
Imperial cities it enjoys the third place and voice on the Sivabian bench,
but on the bench of the Imperial cities in the circle of Franconia the firft.
In the Imperial matricida oi Worms this town is rated to one Roman month
at 14S0 florins, which fum conftitutes about one feventh part of the tax
of the whole circle ot Franconia. But this evaluation being reduced in
1678 Nw-nberg alio was remitted one third of her fliare in it, and her rate
fixed at nine hundred and eighty-fix florins, by which it ftid continues to
pay the above-mentioned proportion. In 1701 it was charged onlv witiv
leven hundred and ninety-fix florins; but in 1720 its evaluation was raifed
to eight hundred and tv.'enty-eight. This new evaluation it paid till the
year 173^,
but from that time has confented only to the feventh part of the
common impolts of the circle. To each chamber-term it contributes eight
hundred and twelve rixdollars.
The traift next adjoining round the town is environed with lines, on
which too the weft are two fconces called the Bern and Stern-
Sconce,
2. Of the territory belonging to the town.
I. The trad: called the Nürnberg dxxcXt., or compafs, is furrounded by
the rivers Sehivarzbach, Pegnitz, and Schwabach, to which the Nuniber^ers
give the title of the border-waters. It comprizes within it two confiderable
Imperial forefts, called the Sebald and Laurence forefts, which
confill: of pines: The former lies between the Schivabach and Pegnitz;
the latter between Pegnitz and Schwarzach. Each of thefe forefts ftands
under an office which is denominated from it, and both of them under the
foreft-office or jurifdiction at Niirnberg,
On the fide of the Sebald foreft is to be remarked,
1. Grundlach, a market-town and citadel, feated on the rivulet oi Griindlach,
and belonging to the noble family of Pßnzing Henjhifeld, which is alfo
pofTeflfed of the neighbouring village of Reuttes.
2. Heroldßerg, a market-town and citadel. The Amnionen were poffefTed
of this town in the time of the Emperor Frederick II. from whom.
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