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6o8 GERMANY, [Erzgebirg.
double electoral fmalt-vvork.
To the church here that of Khjierlein, where
the Emperor Frederick founded a cloyfter in 1173, is a filial. This place
alfo together with Zella,
belongs to the family of Wolferfdorj\
15. Schofiheyda, a parochial-village, which is the property of the noble
family of Planitz. It has arrived to its very thriving condition by means
of the lace, iron-plates and v/ares fold here. Hard by it lies the foundery of
Schonheyda.
XIV, The prefedurate of Wiesenburg, containing eighteen villages.
The Eledtor fohn George \. purchafed this prefedurate in 1618 of the
council of ZuvVy^^«.* But the Eledlor ^0/6;/ Gfcr^^ II. fold it again in 1664
to Philip Lewis, Duke of Holßein-Sonderhurg, whofe line from thence obtained
the title of Wiejeyiburg. Duke Leopold, of Holdßein-JViefenburg, in
whom this line became extind:, fold it again in 1725 to the eledloral houfe.
In it is,
1. Wiejenburg, a citadel lying on the Mulde.
2. Kirchberg, a fmall town of about two hundred houfes, and which
in the thirty years war fufFered great damage by fire. At this place is a
manufadure of cloth.
3. Z/chorlau, a mine-town feated about half an hour's diftance from the
Schneeberg, on the rivulet of that name, and containing one hundred and
forty dwelling-houfes.
With this town are united into one pariOi Neidhardßhal, not far from the
Mulde; a foundery commonly called the Schiocfelhutte;
the Schindler {mzltmill,
lying on the Mulde ; Albeniau, a nobleman's eftate and manor ; and
Burckhardfgrun
exclufive of the parfonage and fchool-houfe.
5. Schonau, alfo a parochial-village and manor.
XV. The prefedlurate of Zwickau cum Werdau, containing in it
4. Hirfchfeld, a parochial-village confifting of eighty-fix dwellinghoufes,
thirty-fix immediate vafi*als, twenty mediate ones, and one hundred and
twenty-one villages. In it are fome pits of fi:one-coal which lie between
Planitz, Bockwa and Wilka, as alfo fome free-ftone quarries not far from the
coal-fhaft oi Planitz ; marble and lime-ftone in the feigniory oi Wildenfels ;
quarries of filver at Weijzbach, and in its territory rock-quarries not far from
Zwickau, and in the trad of Planitz. The places to be remarked
here are,
I. Zwickau, in the oldeft records called Zwickotoe, but commonly in
Latin, through miftake Cygnea, or Cygnavia, a town under immediate vaffalage,
and belonging to the narrower feledion of towns. It is the lafl: of
the four prefiding towns, lies on the river Mulde, is one of the largeft
towns in all Meifen, has a citadel, which is feparated from it by a ditch,
and is called Oßerftein ; as alfo a church which lies in the upper part of the
town, together with another in the lower part, and a third in the lower
fuburbs.