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fefturate. The Wends, who refided here fo lately as in the time of the
Marggraves of the houlc of Bavaria, obtained from the above Marroraves
divers privileges and immunities.
Arneburg, a fmall town, lying on the Elbe, and which in the tenth
century was a noted place and a barrier citadel againll the Wet.ds. In the
year 1005, it was fortified anew by the Emperor Henry II. Its agreeable
iituation on an eminence invited fome Saxon Emperors frequently to make
it their place of refidence. Divers of the marggraval line too, as well
men and women, have refided here. Formerly alio there was a foundation
at this place. The principal fublirtence of its inhabitants is received
from navigation and their traffick in corn, as alfo in agriculture. The
hlftory of the ancient Counts oi Arneburg has been treated by Coun{€i\oT Lenz
in \\\sGrafaifaal, who informs us that the county oiArneburg, or the Balfamerland,
was about the year 1067, incorporated by purchafe with the marggravate
o^ Salzwedel, but foon after obtained a new line of Counts and Burggraves.
From the town of Arncburg are denominated a circle and provincial riding.
Buch, a pretty little town, feated on the Elbe and ftiil having rather the
appearance of a village. Inftead alfo of its former magiflracy, it is governed
by a bailiff and four intendants. In fome fovereign letters of 1571, 1645,
^c. it is ftiled a fmall town, but in other refpedis is only a borough.
5. The prefedurate of Badingen, which has its feat in the village of
Badingen between Stendal and Gardelcgen.
6. The prefeiflurate of Neuendorf. To it belongs
Neuendcrf, formerly a Cißercian nunnery, founded by the Marggraves
John and Otto. At prefent it is wholly Proteflant, and confills of a Domina
and fix ladies.
Trujlat, or Treußaf, once a manor, which, in 1702, was declared a peculiar
village, and at firfl inhabited by fome Calviniß French j but to them
fucceeded fome Cahinijl Germans.
Lezlingen, a royal hunting-houfe, out of the ancient manor belonging to
which a large village, having a church of its own, has arifen. The Lczlingen
heath, or wood, here is very confiderable,
7. The prefeAurate of Borgstall, which was exchanged, in 1562,
by the Lords of Bifmark for that of Schonhaufeu and the cloyfter of Krevefen
with its annexed villages. In this prefedturate is
Borgßall, a citadel and village containing a parifli-church.
The Tholle and Pleetz, both new villages.
Danneiifelde and Staats, two parochial-villages : and
Salchau, a royal manor, near which Y'x'mct Leopold oi Anhalt-DeßauhwWi
him a hunting-houfe.
III. The prefeduraie of Dambeck, or Dambke, which arofe out of
what wa-i formerly a Befiedi^ine nunnery, and, in 1545, was granted by the
Eledlor 'Joachim II. to Ltvin of the Schulenburg, as well the elder as
younger, and their heirs, for fixty years i
but, in 1607, was allotted by
the