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Falkenberg, a feat and farm fituate at the foot of the Mofemherg.
Wabem, a village, of which the abbey of St. Peter, at Fritzlar, has
the tythes. In it is a palace with a falconry built by the Landgrave Charles.
4. The bailiwick of Borken confifts of eight villages.
Borken, a fmall town, wholly deftroyed in the year 1469, fufFered alfo
extremely in the thirty years war.
Kiindesburg and Kalbßnirg, formerly ftrong holds of robbers.
Great-Englis, a village, near which Friderich, duke of Brwtfrvic, King
eledl of the Romans, was defeated.
5. The county of Ziegenhayn had its own counts, whofe origin has not
yet been fet in a clear light. In the year 1437, John, co\xntoi Ziegenhayit,
ceded this count)^ together with its appurtenances, as a fief, to Lewis I.
Landgrave of Heje, and received it again as an hereditary male fief, John,
the laft count of Ziegenhayn and Nidda, dying about the middle of the
fifteenth centurj', the family oiHeffe took poffeffion of both counties and of
the marc of Fulda. To the county of Ziegenhayn, exclufive of certain amts
and towns in Upper Heß, belong the following baiUwicks, which lie on
the river Schwalm,
1. The bailiwick of Ziegenhayn.
Ziegenhayn, once the refidence of the counts, but fmall, lies in a morafs
wholly environed by the Schwalm, and was intended to have been made a
regular fortification, but is not compleated. The Landgrave Maurce enlarged
and improved the old feat. In this place are kept the archives of
both the fovereign families of Hejjc, and Cajjel has alfo a flud here.
Frillendorf, a large village, having a court of juftice.
Spiefcappel, a decayed monaftery, betwixt which and Leimsfeld lies
Spiez, which is thought to be the centre of Hcffe, and was formerly the
Diet town. In this place is a watch-tow^er, but without either gate or fteps
and near it is the foreft of Romberg, otherwife called das Lech, as alfo the
Kriegerholz. The ancient cartle here of Landsburg ftands on a mountain by
itfelf near the village of Michelsberg,
2. The bailiwick of Schonstein reaches to the Kelkr, a high mountain
contiguous to the borders of the country of Waldeck.
Treyfa, the principal place of the county ftands high on the river Schtvalm,
over which it has a bridge of ftone. It is one of the towns of receipt, and
feme Diets were formerly held here. In the year 1646 this place was laid
in a(hes by the Imperialijis.
Jefpurg, a large village.
3. The bailiwick of Neukirchen contains
Neukirchen, a fmall town, feated on the rivulet of Gretif.
Ottra and Rolßaufen, both bailiwicks.
Scbwarzenborn, the moft ancient town in this county, was dcflroycd in the
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