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582 GERMANS. [Meifl^n,
namely, the principal chiiich, the cloyfter-church, near which formerly
ftood a Francifcon cloyfter, and that for interments, together with a
Latin fchool. It derives good fublidence as well from agriculture, as
cloth-weaving, and feveral other manufactures. It was probably founded
by the Wends. In a record of the Emperor Henry IV. of 1065, by which it
was incorporated with the bifliopric of Naumburg, it was at that time
called a town. In 1616 it was burnt down, ever fince which time a
hundred building places have continued empty here,
2. Sfrehla, a fmall town and nobleman's eftate, belonging to the noble family
of iy^^/g-. This place was anciently a feigniory, the proprietors of which
Itiled themfelves Burggraves, and were likewife Burggraves of Leifz?iig.
The Emperor Henry IV. made a donation of it to the billiopric oi Naurnburg,
and this lail in 1238 in fief to the Mijnian Marggrave Henry the
Illußrioiis. In 1304 the biihopric difpofed of it to the Lords of Iknburg.
In 1370 the Emperor Charles IV. purchai'ed it to the crown of Bohemia,
but his fon ^/'d'««^'/ conferred it in 1384 on one Otto Pßng a nobleman.
The eflate here is divided into the "Trebriitz and Gorzig fliare, and the place
itfelf is
a Bohemian fief.
3. Dahlen a fmall town and nobleman's eftate, belonging to the Counts