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Saxony.] GERMANY.
535
and the filial churches belonging thereto at feven hundred and one ; confequently
of both here are 2218; and the number of the preachers in the
feveral fuperintendencies and infpedions amounts to 2135. In the towns
are about two hundred and forty parifli-churches, exclufive of thofe
of the citadel, hofpital, and burial-places. The pariHies here are divided
into fpiritual infpeftions, and thefe h& again into the following confiftories,
viz. under the upper conliftory at Drcfden, which is here conlidered only
as an under confiflory, ftand thirteen infpedtions, which have their feats
at Drcjden, Freyberg, Leijznig, Bifchofswerda, Pima., Ofchatz, Meißn, Annaberg,
Hayn, JValdhtir/i, Chemnitz., Cclditz and Dobrilugk. Under the
confiftory at Leipzig fland twenty-two infpections, namely thofe at Leipzig,
Eulenburg, Grimma, Borna, Roelolitz, Penig, Zwickau, Plauen, Oelfnitz,
JVeyda, Neußadt on the Orla, Frauenpreijnitz, Pegau, Delitzfch, TVeiflenfeh,
Freyburg, Eckartsberga, Langenjalza, Weiffcnfee, Sangerhaufen, ^erfurt
Heldrungen. Under the confilfory at Wittenberg fland eighteen infpeöions,
namely thofe at Wittenberg, Grajenhaynichen, Jeßen, Herzberg, Baruth,
Seyda, SchUeben, Kemberg, Torgau, Gonimern, Belzig, Licbenivcrda, Clcden,
Bitterfeld, Zahna, Dahme, 'Jüterbog and Barby. To the foundation
confiftory at Würzen, belongs the infpedion oi Würzen ;
to the confiflory of
the foundation ol Naumburg at Zeitz the infpedtion oi Zeitz-, to the confiftory
of the foundation at Merjehurg, the churches in the prefedurates of
Merfeburg, Lutzen, Schkeuditz and Lauchßad ; to the confiftory of the
county of Schonburg the infpeöions at Glauchau, Hartenßein, Lichten/lein,
Lofztsltz and Waldenhurg. Under the confiftory at Eijleben ftand all the
churches in the county of Mansfcld, which are divided into eight decanates,
exclufive of the prefeöurate of Amftein. At Ebelebcn is an infpection-oliice
of the Prince of Schwarzburg's, at Rofzla a confiftory of the
Count of Stoibers;, and at Sojvicwalde a confiftory of the Count of Solms.
Over all thefe confiftories is placed the ecclefiaftical council and the upper
confiftory at Drejden. Both thefe are connefted together ; and the latter,
which has been confidered above barely as an under confiftory over a number
of infpedions, occurs to us again in this place in as much as in conjundion
with the ecclefiaftical council, it difpatches orders to all underconfiftories.
But the ecclefiaftical council here, as well as the upper-confiftory,
have each their own peculiar departments ; and in weighty cafes
both apply to the privy-council.
The Calvini/ls as well as the 7?öw^zH-catholics
have at Drefden and Leipzig
the free exercife of their religion.
§. 6. The fciences flourifti in this electorate ; book-printing being at no
place more common, and book-felling no where more confiderable than at
Leipzig. The univerfities of Leipzig and Wittenberg have retained and
even increafed their ancient reputation. At Leipzig are focieties for the liberal
arts and the German language. At Meiffen, Pjorte and Grimtna are
princely