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522 GERMANY. [Rothenburg.
2. Of its territory.
The beft view of its territory is to be li;id in Cbapiae-h chart of the
«ounty of Hohenlohe, and in that of , Vetters of the 'principaHty of
Onolzbach. It is furrouiided with a iand-fence, which coniilts of a living
hedore, ditches, high towers, and in fome parts alfo of lakes, mountains,
and wood. In it the following places are principally to be noticed : 'uiz.
1. Gebfattel, a citadel, feated on the 'Tauber, and belonging to the noble
foundation
of C'-^mburg.
2. The p:irochial-villages of Kirnberg, Neufes, Dettwcvigcn, Scbiveinfdorj\
Gottenkojen, Steinsjeld, Ohrenbach, ar,d Scheckenbach.
3. Upper and Lower-Nordcnberg, two fmall hamlets, which preferve the
memory of the ancient Lords of Nordcnberg, who were hereditary purveyors
of the holy Roman Empire, and had a caftle at Upper-Ncrdenberg,
which callle, in the year 140B, was pulled down by order of the Emperor
Ruprecht. In 1407 they difpofed of the caftle of Nordenberg, together
with the furrounding villages belonging thereto, as namely Sch'iceinjdorf,
Harderjhofe/i, Stetrnfeld, and Windelsbach, to the town of Rothenburg.
4. Endjee, Enje, or Enfcnheim, a hamlet, feated on an inland lake, and
formerly containing a citadel, to which belonged a confiderable feigniory, and
whofe ancient poficfiors were knights bannerets. This place has been alienated
partly by the owners themlelves, and partly alter their deceafe came
to the houfe of Hchenlohe, by whom it was fold in 1367 to the town of
Rothenburg. The citadel here the Emperor Ruprecht ordered to be deftroyed
in 1408.
5. Steinach below Endfce, a parochial-village, the parifh-church of which
is filled up by the feveral feniors of the houfe of Cajiell.
6. The parochial-villages of Schmerbach, JVihienthierbach, Spilbcch, Leu-i
zenbron, Leuzendorf, Bettenfeid, Lohr, and Gammesfelden, in the lafl: of
which is a citadel j together with thole of Injingen, Haufen, Breftheiin,
Vnder-O'dhiim., Under-Wernitz, and Wettringen, near the lall of which riles
the Tauber, as alfo that of Raibach.
7. Under-Gaimou, a parochial-village on which the Emperor Charles IV.
in 1373 conferred town-privileges, notwithftanding which it ffill continues
a village. Hard by it lies Upper-Gailnau, formerly a very flrong citadel.
Thefe places were anciently pofTeffed by the Counts of Hohenlohe, but in
1406 Count yohn of Hohenlohe difpofed of them to the town of Rothenburg
for the fum of 9000 florins. In that very year too the citadel was pulled
down by order of the Emperor Ruprecht.
8. Seideneck, a citadel, not far from the Tauber, and which was purchafed
by the town of Rothenburg in the year 1404 of the Burggrave Frederick
of Nürnberg, for the fum of 8000 florins.
9. Reinsburg, a citadel, lying not far from Raibach.
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