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Saxony.]
GERMANY.
1. Belzig, a town, under mediate valTalage, and having both feat and
voice at the Provincial Diets, together with a citadel and fuperintendencv.
In the year 1750 this place fufFered greatly by fire.
2. Bruck^ an inconliderable little town under mediate vaffalage, but having
notwithftanding both feat and voice at the Provincial Diets, as aUb a
citadel.
3. Niemeck, a fmall town, under mediate vaflalage, and having both
feat and voice at the Provincial Diets.
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4. Rabenjlein, a citadel and nobleman's eflate, polTefied at prefent by a.
proprietor of the name of Lofcke.
5. Benken, Caiiiti, with Clcßo, Frederfdorf^ Hagelberg, KlehigUcn, huhnitz,
Rietz, and IViejenburg, all church-villages, containing noblemen's
eftates.
IV. The preiedurate of Gommern with Elbenau, which lies on the
river B.lbe, between the dutchy of Magdeburg, the principality of ^-nhalf^
and the county o{ Barby, containing in it two immediate vaflals, three mediate
ones, and twenty-two villages. Formerly it confifted of two prefecturates
which the Emperor Albert III. of Saxony and the laft of the Afcanian
line, mortaged in the year 1420 as prefedurates of the burggravate of
Magdeburg for the fum of 22,000 gold guldens to the town-council of
Magdeburg; but the El-edtor John Frederick again redeemed them. In
16 19 both thefe prefedlurates were united into one. In them we fliall
take notice of
1. Gommern, a fmall town, under mediate vaflalage, and containing a
citadel and fuperintendency.
2. Elbenau, a church-village, fituated on an ifland in the river Elbe.
3.
Jhleburg, a church-village, with a nobleman's eflate, belonging to the
Barons of Plotho.
V. The prefedlurate of Seyda, in which is one immediate and three
mediate valfals, together with feventeen villages. In tliis prefedurate we
are to remark,
1. Seyda, anciently called 5/V^zi^, a fmall town, under mediate vafTalage,
and enjoying both feat and voice at the Provincial Diets. In it too is a
fuperintendency. This place was formerly ftiled a feigniory.
2. Gadegajl, Golfdorf, Kurzlipfdorf, Mollnitz, Morxdorf, Niederfeefeld,
Oehna, and Seehaufen, all church villages.
VI. The prefedurate of AxNABURG, in which are two immediate vaffals,
one mediate valTal, and fixteen villages. The heath of Annaburg or
Lochau is very extenfive. In this prefedurate is
I. Annaburg, formerly called Lochau, a borough, fituated on an ifland
which forms the new dyke, and containing in it a citadel, which An72e coniovt
to the Eledlor Augußus caufed to be rebuilt in the year i
572 ; upon which
both that and the town itfelf were called after her name.
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