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6^^ GERMANY. [Old-Mark.
1. The prefedurate of Salz we del. Among the places belonging to
it are the following :
namely,
The Pei'wer, a village, which looks like a fuburb to Sah%ü?del. The
inhabitants of this place belong partly to the jurifdiaion of the prefedlurate,
partly alio to that of the Lord of Schulenburg,
and partly to that of the council
of the old town of Salzwedel, on account of the hofpital of St. George :
Almoft at the end of the Perwer lies the church and the tloyfter of the
Holy Ghoß, the convent belonging to which conhfted of regular canons ;,
and at ä greater dlftance from it lies St. George's church and hofpital, in
which twelve poor women are maintained.
Old-Salzivedel, a village, one German mile from the town of Salzivedel,
to the eaft end of which is to be feen a wall which is i'uppoicd to be the
remains of the ancient refidence of the Marggraves of Salzivedel.
2. The prefedurate of Distorf, which has its name from the Augiißirie
nunnery of Dißorf, founded about the year i i6i, and was at hrft called St.
Marys ißand, or Marienwerder, and that probably for this reafon, namely,
becaufe it was furrounded with dykes and ditches. At prefent it confifts of
twelve Proteflant conventuals, one half of whom are of noble, and the
other half of burgher extradtion, and their fuperior ftiled Domijia. DiJiorf
has three fairs. To it belong the villages o^ Abbendorf, Wendifch-Boddenfladt,
Fahrendorf, Peckerife, Ellenberg, Waddekatb, 6cc. together witli
Viere, a royal manor.
3. The prefedlurate of Arendsee, containing in it the lake of that
name, which is one fmall German mile in circuit, but twenty or thirty
fathoms and more in depth. To this prefedlurate belongs,
Arendjee, an open little town, feated on the juft defcribed lake, and divided
into the old and new. The former fiiands immediately under
the prefedurate-office, but the latter has a magiftracy of its own to whom
belongs the under tribunal, that of the upper being annexed to the prefedurate.
The jurifdidion of the police both in the old and new town is
enjoyed by the magiftracy alone. The BenediSline nunnery for ladies,
which formerly flood here, is at prefent converted into a Proteftant noble
cloyfter, in which refide an abbefs and fix ladies. From this town a circle
and provincial riding take their names.
Benkendorf ox: Benikendorf, together with Great and Little Chuden, and
other villages.
4. The prefedurate of Tangermunde, the officer belonging to which
refides in the fort near Tangermimde and Rein, in the Sovereign's houfe. To
this prefedurate have been added the eflates and territories which the Sovereign
pofleffed here as board-lands. Of the places belonging to it I
fliall remark
Kalbue or Kolbuw, which is otherwife called Kalebtie, a village, fituated
near Tangermunde^ and containing in it ten fubjeds belonging to the prefedurate.