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Thuringla,] GERMANY,
553
2. Thefchool-amt of P/or/^, in which is
Pforte, or Schulpforte, the principal of the three fovereign or provincial
fchools of the eledlorate, and lying on the river Saale, about one hour's diftance
from Nawnburg. In it formerly was a confiderable monaflery of
CißercJans, which Duke Maurice converted in 1 543 into what is at prefent
called the Prince's fchool ; in which to this very day one hundred and fifty
fcholars are maintained and taught gratis. This place is under immediate
vaflalage. The fuperintendency too, which formerly was held here, was
abolillied in 1749.
Memlebcn, a parochial-village feated on the TJnftrut, in a pleafant and
fruitful trad: between Nebra and Wiehe. The BenediEline monaftery which
formerly ftood near it was one of the moft celebrated in all Thurifigia, and
In it died the Emperors Henry and Otko I. This monaftery was diflblved
about the year 1545, at which time it became an eledoral manor, and the
kmds were farmed out ; but the ufe thereof applied in 1551 by the Eledor
Maurice towards the better maintenance of the Schulpforte,
Kofen, a village feated on the Saale, and containing a good falt-work.
Together with twenty-three other villages, among which are the churchvillages
of Altenburg, Befindorf, Lijdotf, Upper-Mollern, Pojnnitz, Pappel^
Rehhaufen, Spielberg, Tauchivitz, Zockwar, 6cc.
3. The prefedurate of Tautenburg. In it
"Taiitefiburg, an ancient citadel feated upon a mountain about one German
mile's diftance from Cambiirg, and having a parochial-village and a feigniory
annexed to it which belonged to the Schenken, who fliled themfelves
from hence the Schefiken of Tautenburg. On their extindion, it came fucceflively
into the pofleffion of the family of Werthern, the Dukes of Saxe-
Zeitz, and Count Maurice of Saxony, and at length reverted again to the
eledoral houfe,
fum of twenty florins.
which on account thereof pays to each Roman month the
Frauenpriefjiitz, anciently called Priefnitz, or more fimply Briefnitz, a
market-town, citadel and feigniory, formerly belonging alfo to the Schenken^
and which together with its nunnery, has had the fame fate with the feigniory
q{ Tautenburg. At this place is a fuperintendency, under which ftand
fifteen mother and filial churches. In 1638 it was entirely burnt down.
Niedertrebra, a noble eflate and church-village feated on the Urn, and
belonging formerly, together with the preceding places and feigniories, to
the Schenken, after which it pafied to the Counts oi Werthern, and from them
to Duke Maurice of Saxe-Zeitz, who in 1677 difpofed of it to a member
of the family of Erffa, and this laft to one of the family of Bodenhaufen, to
which family it ftill belongs.
Together with feventeen villages, among which are the church-villages
oi Mai'tcndorf, Pfuhlsborn, Poppendorf, Poxdorf, Staudnitz, Wetzdorf, Sec.
4, The prefedurate of Treffurt, with its annexed vogtev, is co-here-
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