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Mentz \ is alfo a part of the Principality of Waldeck to the Eder, confifts of
fpacious and very fruitful levels intermixed with craggy eminences but no
mountains.
Gudensberg, a fmall town, deflroyed by fire in the years 13 12, 1382,
1389, 1586 and 1640. On two high rocks near it once flood two caftles
called the great and little, the leffer of which was the feat of the Gudenfherg
family.
Gdfmar, a village, known fo early as the eighth century, and probably
the place in which Hood the large oak fo grolly perverted to religious worfliip,.
and for that reafon dug up and deftroyed by order of Boniface.
Nicdetißein, a very ancient town, having formerly a caftle on a^
craggy rock.
Metz, a village feated betwixt the little brook o£ Matzc and the river Rhine,.
and fuppofed to be the Mattium, or Mattiaaun, of the ancients, is the principal
place of the Matz-i, or Matti.
Merxhaufen, one of the four high hofpitals of Hejj'e, as they are called, was
originally a convent ; but, in the year 15^38, was appointed by the Land^
grave Philip to be a receptacle for diftrefied and infirm women.
2. The bailiwick of Felsberg lies to the north fide of the river Eder>;
being for the mofi: part a level and fruitful country, has fome woods, and
on the fouth-eafl: fide of the Edcr is hilly. In this bailiwick the rivers of
^chivahn and Edcr join.
Ft'hberg, a fmall town, half of which was burnt down in the year
1640. The commandery of Marburg has a manfion-houfe and farm at
this place. On a high rock near the town fiands the caftle of Felsberg, in
which Philip the Magnanimous was born.
Betwixt the forefi:s of jailer, Beurholz and Harlerberg, on a very high
and craggy rock, ftands Heliinbcrghouk,. now in ruins ; and beneath it, on
a feparate hill near ^tiller foreft, lies the Chartreufe, which was originally a.
nunnery najned Eppenherg ; but the Landgrave Lewis III. on its fequeftration,
rebuilt it under the title of the Karthaus. Afterwards the Landgrave
Maurice fitted it up for his refidence. This place commands the fineft
profpedl in the whole country.
3. The bailiwick of HoMBERG is large and fertile, and has alfo fome
iron works. The Ejze, which iffues from the mountains adjacent to the
amt of Rothenburg, traverfes this bailiwick and joins the Schwalm.
Homberg, furnamed in Hefft\ and the convocatory town of the Schwalm
diftridl, lies on the Ejze. In the year 1536, the Langrave Philip the
Magnanimous united the old and new town here. This place has very
frequently fufiisred by fire, particularly in the years 13 17, 1356, 1372 and
3523, as alfo in 1640, when the Imperiali/ls hurnt it. Here are two Ritierßtze,
ornoblemen's feats. Its cafi;le, which flood on a high and fingle
eminence near the town, was taken by the Imperialißs in the year 1636.J
but being recovered by the Heßans in 1648, was by them deniDlifhed.
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