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Erzgebirg.] GERMANY. 609
luburbs, a good Latin fchool, in the library belonging to which are above
20,000 volumes, and a fuperintendency whole fpiritual jurifdiclion is divided
into three circles, in which are fifteen boroughs and mine-towns, together
with fixty-fix mother and filial churches in the country. At this
place is alfo a manufadture of cloth. They likewife make here great numbers
of cards (an inftrumcnt indifpenfably neceffary to the feveral handy-crafts
and manufaclurcrs who deal in wool, hair, cotton and flock-filk) as alfo
good fole-leather. The trade carried on here is in thefc cloths, cards and foleleather,
and they trallic likewife in deal, iron, ftone-coals, fand-fione, marble,
fliiver and corn. The town itfelf was anciently an Imperial city, but in
1^08 chofe the Landgrave and Marggrave, Frederick with the bitten Cheek
for its protedor, upon which it fell entirely under the marggraval fovereignty.
In 1530 a mint-office w^as founded -here, which in 1534 was
again removed to Sch?ieeberg, and from thence to Drejden. In 1602 a confiftory
was eredted at this place, which is called both the Ziinckau and
/'C;^//(rW confiflory : But this in fix years afterwards was fupprefied, and
annexed to the confiflory oi Leipzig. Jn 1383 and 1387 Zivickau fuffcred
great damage by fire.
2. Werdau, a fmall town under mediate jurifdidion, and which was purchafed
by the Eledlor Fredericii of the Burggrave of Dohna. This place at
firll: had feparate officers of its own, but was afterwards annexed to the
prefeifturate of Zivickau. In 1504 it was entirely burnt down, in 1547
plundered and fet on fire, and in 1671, together with the citadel, again
confumed by the fame dreadful calamity. In it are manufactures both of
cloth and fluff.
3. Crimmitzjchau, a fmall town, having both feat and voice at the Land-
Diets, and lying on \k\tFleiJe. In this town are manufactures of fluffs and
linen, as alfo a dyery, a flaneland calamanco-printing. Its name has hitherto
been found for the firfl: time under the year 12 12, at which time a family
was ftiled from it, which appears to have become extinö towards the clole
of the 13th century ; at leaft fo early as the year 1291 the Lords of SlI.wiburg
were in pofieilion of this little town, and in 1414 it was fubjeft to the
marggraval fovereignty. In 1430 it was reduced to allies by the Bohemians.
In 1457 it was no longer under the Lords of Schonbiirg, but under the
LoxA% Retiffl'n oi Planen. In 1468 it was again wholly burnt down. In
1472 it was no longer in the iurifdiftion of the Lords Rciiffcn, but under
that of the eleftoral houfe oi Saxony, which kept its Amt-men, or officers
at this place, but foon after mortgaged it, though in 1500 it redeemed
it again, and ceded it in 1524, with a right of redemption, to EkrcnfrieJ
'vcn E>;de ; but in 1528 conferred it as an hereditary male-fief on Hans of
Weifjenbacb. In 1583 it came to the hm\\y oi Eifißedel, in 1605 to that of
Starfckadel^ next to the houfe of Bofen, and afterwards to that of BerbiJdorj,
which is ftill in pofieffion thereof.
Vol. V. 4 I 4. Franken-