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588 GERMANY. [Leipzig.
IV. The prefedturateof DuBEN, containing in it four immediate, feven
among which is,
mediate vaiTals and ten villages ;
1. Dubcn, a fmall town feated on the Mulde, and under immediate
vafTalage. This place enjoys both feat and voice at the Land-diets. In
the year 1 710 it
fuffered greatly by fire.
From it the neighbouring wood talces the name of the Duben-heath, but
is ahb called the heath of Tornau. In this wood is a pitch-houfe.
Not far from the village of Schnverz, which is incorporated into one parish
with Duben, is an alum-work.
2. Sollichau, a parochial-village, with which the villages of Tö/v/öz^ and
Schwemjal (in the latter of which is a noble eftate) as alfo that of Durchivehna,
are incorporated into one parilli.
3 Gorfchlitz, a village, having a noble eftate.
V. The prefedlurate of Eilenburg, containing in it fourteen immediate
eight mediate vaffals, and twenty-three villages. In this prefed:urate is,
1. Eiletiburg, ov Eulenburg, anciently called 7/fw^z/r^, Ileburg, or Ilburg,
a town feated between the Mulde and an arm of the fame river called the
Mill-ditch, or trench, and under immediate vaflalage. This place belongs
to the greater feleftion of the towns, has three churches, and near it on
tlie other fide of the mill-trench ftands an old mountain-citadel. In it too
is a fuperintendency, under whofe fpiritual jurifdiflion are two towns,
twenty-three mother-churches in the country, and twenty-one filials. The
ancient Lords oi Ilburg, who were originally common nobles, but afterwards
advanced to the fi:ate of Lords, were for a long time vcgts, or marggraval
amt-headfmen of £/A';/i^//r^, but in 1302 and in 1325 became pofi!efi"ed of
this town. They like wife acquired to themfelves by degrees thirteen other
towns, and divers villages ; but their eftate lies partly in Meißen about the
T'orgau, Bilgern and Muhlberg, and partly in the Lower Lufatia, near Dobrilug
and Sonneivaldc. The Marggrave William the One-eyed, purchafed
the town of Eilenburg, not of the Lords of Ilburg, but of thofe of Colditz..
The laft Lord of Ilburg, of the Mifnian line, was flain in the battle between
King Matthias of Hungary and Duke John of Sagan, The Pruffian
Lords of Ilburg feem to be defcended from Botho the Elder of Ilburg and
Lord of Sonnewalde, v/ho lived in the fifteenth century. In 10 18, 1384 or
1386, 1435, 1449, and 1533, this town was confumed by fire.
Battauna^ a parochial-village belonging to the council of Eilenburg, who
purchafed it in 1403.
2. Auf dem Berge, which lies before the Leipzig-gate of the town of
Eilenburg, is an eftate and freehold.
3. CoJJa, Niederglauche, Priejlablicb, Zfcbepplin, all parochial villages
with noble eftates.
4. Groitzjch, or Greutfch, a noble eftate feated on a mountain on the.
Mulde, and belonging to the family oi Funk.
5» Gruna^