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markable monuments. The hofpital here has its own adminiftration-p-mt
which prelides over its own inhabitants and eftates.
On the Pegnitz are ered;ed caferns in which fome foldiers refide, who
have a curate of their ov/n.
II. Without the hnes are
1. The Wtiher hofpitals of St. Leonhard, St. Peter, and St. Jcl^jl, wiiich .
have their parifli-churches. They enjoy likewife their own adniinillrationoffices,
which prefide over their fubjed;s and eftatcs.
2. The adminiftratory-prefedurate of Altorf, in which is
Altorf\ or Altdorf, a fmall town, containing about two hundred and
eight hearths. It confifts principally of one large ftreet, which is called
the Markt, and of feveral little ones, but thefe are rendered difagreeable
by the many dunghills in them. At the parifli-church here a profefibr of
divinity always preaches, and the two deacons belonging to it are likewife
profelTors of divinity. The citadel here is an ancient (tone building, confifting
of twelve large courts, in which the Altorf adminiftrator has his
refidence. In the year 1575 z gyinnqßum was founded here, which, in 1
1^78,
obtained of the Emperor academical immunities, was confecrated in 158a,
and in 1623 raifed to an univerfity. The fine univerfity-ftrudure confift's
of a building three ft:ory high, which is terminated by two v.'ings, and contains
in it the valuable library belonging to the univerfity, an anatomical
theatre, and a chymical laboratory. In the main body of it alfo is an
obfervatory. Without the town lies a large botanical garden, which is
kept in a good condition. Altorf h a place of antiquity, and of it mention
is made in fome records fo early as the year 912. It belonged anciently to
the Counts oi Najfau, from whom it descended to the Burggraves of Nürnberg.
The Burggrave Frederick conferred it in the year 1390 en his daughter
Anne, who was married to Duke Suantibor of Pomerania. That ducal
houfe fold it in 1393 to the Pfalzgrave Ruprecht, who was afterwards
Emperor. It continued with the Pfalzgrave till the year 1504, at which
time the Pfalzgrave Ruprecht was put under the ban ; and among other
Imperial States the execution thereof was alfo confeired on the town of
Nürnberg, which, exclufive of other places, took poflefiion alfo of the town
oi Altorf, which was adjudged by right of conqueft to it, and alfo retained
as property by virtue of the agreement entered into in the year 152 i with
the Pfalzgrave. In 1448 it was flormed by the Marggrave Albrecht, and
one half of it burnt down. In the fixteenth century it was often taken,
and in 1553 for the mofl part reduced to aflies by the Marggrave Albrecht
the younger.
Rajch, a parochial-village, feated on the Schwarzach, and in which the
family of V/eljer are pofTefied of a lliare.
The villages of Rotenbuch and Wei[fenbrim.
3. The adminiflratory-prefedurate of Lauf comprizes in it a part of
the foreft of Sebald and Laurence. In it is Lauf,