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556 GER M ANT. [Thuringia.<br />

meadow on the 17«/?^//, and in 14 19 obtained town-privileges, as alfo in<br />

1483 the upper and lower jurifdidlion. In it 1731 was ail burnt down but<br />

twenty houfes.<br />

Ne'bra, a fmall town under immediate vadalage, and ftated on the Unfimt.<br />

Its citadel is poireffed by the Count <strong>of</strong> Hoym as a noble eftate. It<br />

belonged formerly to a line <strong>of</strong> the Schenkoi. Duke Willicim the Brave ceded<br />

it in 145S to the Lords <strong>of</strong> A^i/wzVzinlieu <strong>of</strong> his half <strong>of</strong> the citadel and town<br />

oi Freyburg. In 1641 it was alm<strong>of</strong>l: wholly reduced to afhes by the SwedeSy<br />

and in 1655 was again confumed by fire.<br />

Burg- Sehetduvgen, a church-village lying on the Uiißriä, with an eftate<br />

annexed to it belonging to the family <strong>of</strong> Schuletiburg, was anciently<br />

a town and fortrefs, which devolved at length as an Imperial fief to the<br />

biOiopric oi Bamberg, by which it was given again in fief to other p<strong>of</strong>feffors<br />

; as for inftance in 1376 to Gebhard a noble Lord <strong>of</strong> S^uerftirt.<br />

Bruno XI. in whom this ^lerfurt line became extinft, ceded the fief in<br />

J 495 to Vnnce Woldemar oi Anhalt ; fince which the princely houfe <strong>of</strong><br />

Anhalt has conftantly received it in fief <strong>of</strong> the bifliops <strong>of</strong> Bamberg, but<br />

generally again inverted others with it by way <strong>of</strong> fub-fief,<br />

Carfdorf, a church-village, in which is one <strong>of</strong> the five tribunals <strong>of</strong> this<br />

prefedturate.<br />

R<strong>of</strong>zbacb-, a church-village, alfo containing one <strong>of</strong> the five tribunals <strong>of</strong><br />

this prefefturate. In the neighbourhood <strong>of</strong> this place in 1757 happened<br />

one <strong>of</strong> the m<strong>of</strong>t glorious adtions that ever was known ; Frederick II. King<br />

o{ Prußia, with a fmall army and a very inconfiderable l<strong>of</strong>s, routing with the<br />

greateft eafe a powerful army <strong>of</strong> the <strong>com</strong>bined French and Imperialilh.<br />

Eichjletty a village, alfo containing one <strong>of</strong> the five tribunals <strong>of</strong> this prefedlurate.<br />

G<strong>of</strong>eck, a parochial village, with a nobleman's feat under immediate vaffalage,<br />

and containing a citadel-church, in which the principal divine fervice<br />

here is performed ; but in the village- church alfo hours <strong>of</strong> prayer are<br />

obferved, and other divine rites celebrated. In this town alio formerly was<br />

a famous BenediBine cloyfter.<br />

Alberfrcda, Balgßadt, Baumerjroda, Bedra, Brajjdercda, Braunfroda,<br />

Crumpa, Eulau, Oieina, Groß, Kirchjcheidtingen, Markrohliz, Oberfchmon,<br />

(anciently called Schman) Oberwund/ch, Judendorf, Oechlitz, Reinjdorf,<br />

St. Ulrich, Schnelrcda, Vitzenburg, JVeifchutz, JVeiJfenfchirmbach and Zöbicker,<br />

all church-villages with eftates.<br />

ZfchleipUtz, a noble eftate and village, anciently called Weijjenburg. At<br />

this place was a nunnery.<br />

7. The prefedurate <strong>of</strong> EcKARTSBERGA, in which are fixty-feven. villages<br />

and thirty-five immediate vaflals,<br />

namely,<br />

I. Eckartsberga, an open little town under immediate vaflalage, and<br />

having both feat and voice at the Provincial Diets. In it is an old ruinous<br />

piountain-

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