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85 GERMANY. [Leipzig.
ivitz, Rotha, Rden, Schenkenherg, ScbiaJitz, Schonfeldy Seegeritz, Stormthai,
Stotteritz, Zcbmen, Zobicker, ZweynaiaidorJ\ all parochial villages
with noble eftates.
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II, The preiefturate of Delitzch, containing in it nmeteen mediate
vaffals and one hundred and twenty-one villages. This prefedturate be-
and
longed formerly to the Merjeburg collateral line of the eledloral houfe,
comprizes,
1. Delitzfch, or Dolitzfch, in L^tm Deliciim, a town under immediate
vaffalage, aiid belonging to the greater feieoion of the towns. In it is a
citadel with a chapel and three churches, namely, one parochial-church,
one for interments, and one hofpital-church. To the fpiritual jurifdicflion
of the fuperintendency here belong five churches which lie in three towns,
nineteen mother-churches in the country and ten filials. Great quantities
of woolen (lockings are knit here. In 1527 this place was burnt down,
and in 1661 a great part of it was confumed by the fame dreadful calamity.
2. Landsberg, a fmall town under mediate vaffalage, and near which
on a high mountain to the eaft formerly flood the citadel of the Marggraves
oi Landsberg, at which is flill a chapel. The Marggrave Thecdorkky
who fucceeded his father Conrad the Great, in the marggravate of Lu/atia
and the Oßerland, was the firft founder of the fort of Landsberg, and frequently
(filed himfelf only Marggrave thereof. This title, as far as appears
from record?, was firft affumed by him in 1180, and though originally,
and that too for a good while, it was merely perfonal, yet the Emperor
LevAs of Bavaria and Charles IV. made no fcruple of conferring on the
circumjacent country the title of a Marggravate, as appears from records
bearin