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3. Tripth, a very ancient little town under immediate vaßalage, and
having both feat and voice at the Land-Diets. In the year 1561 an amtoffice
was founded here, and to it v/ereannexe.d fourteen villages. Duke
Maurice William of Saxe-Zeitz mortgaged this town for a time to John George,
noble Banneret and Baron of Mnifcbach. The Landgrave Frederick or" Tburingia,
in the year 1328, ivivt^itdi He7iry the l^ouiiger, Vogt of Plauen, and
his heirs for ever, with the towns of Triptis, Auma, Ziegenruck^ and their
appurtenances; but the fons of the fame Landgrave took poffeffion of them
by force of arms.
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4. Auma, a fmall town under immediate vaffalage, and lying on the river
of the like name. This place has both feat and voice at the Land-Diets, and
the council has alfo purchafed the fuperiority over it. That it belonged for
fome time to the 'Vogts of Plauen, has been ihewn above under Triptis.
5. Ranis, a fmall town and jurifdidtion pofTefl'ed in common by the families
of ßr^/;^^'«//«;?, Breitenbauch, Geyersberg ^nA Brockdo7f. T lie Landgrave
JVilliam IIL purchafed the fort and fel.jniory of Ratiis oi Ctic Ccnnts
of Schwarzenburg, and, in 1465, made s. doiiaiion thtvcoi to EberharJ of
JBrajidenßein.
6. The feigniory of Oppurg, which takes its name from the old citadel
of Oppurg which the fanvcius Marggrave fViprecht was poflefico of. After
'his death it defcended to William, Count of ArnJ/.-diig, with all its appurtenances;
as, namely, Colba, Pofitz, Nimritz, &c. This laft poffcfibr appointed
Maurice of Brandenjhin, Caßellan theieof, to whom he alfo foon
after made a donation of the Wiprecht eflates which he had himfelf
purchafed. "Henry of BrandenßeinsNz^'mvtfktd, in 1354, by the Landgrave
Frederick with the- citadel of Oppurg, and alfo obtained leave to furround it
with walls and towers : for which reafon too, in honour of the faid Landgrave,
he called it Friedenßein, which name it long bore; but, in 1667,
the Brandcnflein eflates of Oppurg, Crobitz, Grünau and Knau, being all
Ibid, "John Albert, Coxint of Ronov znA Bieberßein, brought them, by purchafe,
to his family. After him Kay of Rumobr obtained them, who caufed
the old Frieden/lein, whici) flood on an elevated rock, to be demoliflicd at a
great expence (there being above 3000 rixdoUarfworth of gunpowder confumed
on that occafion) and a new building to be ereded in its ftead, which
was completed in 1705. The daughter and heirefs of this laft, namely^/;;/cz
Sophia, widow to Einßedel, left Oppurg to her fons, from whom it came, in
1745, to Count Julius Gebhard of Hoym, who has improved both the citadel
and the garden. To it belong the parochial-villages of t/Wcr and Upper-
Oppurg.
7. Braunfdcrf, Colba with Pofiiz, Ccjpoda, Dneitzfch, Gutterlitz, Letnnitz,
Moderwitz, Mofzbach, Nimritz, Schwarzbach, Wenigenauma and
Wernburg, all parochial-villages with noble eftates.
8. Wcltewitz, alfo a parochial-viilage with a fovereign domain eüate which
was formerly a nunnery. IL The