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654 GERMANY. [Middle-Mark,
houfe, on the fite of which formerly flood an eleftoral palace. Not fa
from hence too is a cryftal and glafs-houfe,
V'll. Into the circle of TFilfnachj comprizing in it ten
villages.
In this circle we fliall take notice of,
1. Wilfnack, a fmall town feated on the Karfau, and containing a fpiritual
infpedlion.
This place, together with the villages oi Legde, Great and Little
Liibcn, and the manor of Oevelgu7ine appertains to the Lord of Saldern ;
whole feat here is called the Wudenhof. AH thefe feveral places formerly
belonged to the Plattenburg. JVilfnack became anciently very famous by
means of a piece of fuperftition there, no lefs than three hofts being worfliipped
at this place, which hofts, in 1383, remained untouched in the
church when it was burnt down, and upon each of them was feen a drop
of blood. To thefe hofts numerous pilgrimages were made from the remoteft
countries ; by which means this place rofe from a village to a
fmall town. At length the hofts, which had been fo long mifapplied to
the purpofes of fuperftition, were burnt in 1552 by the Lutheran preacher,
yoachim Ellefeldt. In 1690 this town was almoft wholly confumed
by fire.
2. The Plattenburg, a citadel lying on the Kartau, and formerly belonging
to the h\(\no^% oi Haz^elberg, but in 1551 was ceded by the Eledlor
Joachim II. to Matthias of Saldern, whofe pofterity are ftill in pofleffion
thereof.
rhe MIDDLE- MA R K.
§. 1. '"T^HIS country terminates on the Prignitz, the dutchy of Magde-
-* burg^ the Saxon eledtoral circle, the Loiver-Lufatia, the Nciimark,
the Uckermark, and the dutchy of Mecklenburg, The Marggrave
Albert the Bear receiving this country in inheritance of the Wendißi King
Bribizlaus, or Henry, it was from the town of Brandenburg ftiltd the
Mark thereof, but afterwards by way of diftinftion from the Old-Mark
which is fituated beyond the Elbe, was named the New-Mark, which laft
appellation alfo it retained till the fifteenth century, when the name of the
Iseumark was peculiarly applied to that province or country now fo called ;
whereas the country, of which we are here to treat, received the name of
the M'ddk-Mark. 5
§.2. The