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Middle-Mark.] GERMANY.
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occafion ofthat city's being added to its territories, which name it llkewifc
retained after the building of the catheclral at Furßetnvalde. Lebus was always
municipal ; infomuch that on the bifliop's being regiftered in the nnitricula
in
1521, not only the Eleöor o\' Bra/iäinlurg but likewife the bilhop
himfelf remonftrated againll it. On the deceafe of billiop John VIII. in
1555 the management of the diocefe was committed to the care of the
Marggrave Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg^ who, on his acceffioa to the
eledtoral dignity in 1598, fecularized the bifhopric and at the fame time
fupprefled the chapter. The upper prefedurate into which it was converted
is four miles in length and three broad ; and contains in it four hnall town%
together with thirty-tour villages and hxteen farms, and through the midlt
of it runs the Oder. A part of this prefedurate lies in the Neumark. It is
a fertile fpot, but not much improved. In Kortiim\ hiftorical account of
the ancient biflioprics oi Lebus is a fmall map of the country belonging to
this prefedurate, but without any afcertainment of its bounds. The la-f^enefs
of its extent has caufed it to be divided into feveral bailiwicks. In it is
1. Lebus, a fmall town feated on the Oder, being 1200 paces in length
taken in a dired line, though formerly much larger, and containing
about 14000 inhabitants, with three or four churches. This town has
been frequently facked. It lies low among hills, io that it cannot be feen
at one view, and therefore makes but a mean appearance. It was originally
fubjed to Poland, but afterwards devolved on Boleßaw, Duke of Sile/ia, who
in 1250 bequeathed both the town and its lordfliip to the Marggraves Ofbo
and John of Brandenburg. In 1354 the Eledor Lewis, the Roman, left the
caftle and city of Lebus to the birtiopric, to which it afterwards alfo ^ave
title. The bifliop's caftle here was wholly deftroyed by a fire in 1 63 i. Near
the town is
a royal farm.
2. Fur/knwa/de, a fmall town fituated on the Spree, on which river there
is a lock at this place. Fur/ieniva/de is a bailiwick, and in 1354 was annexed
by the Eledor Lewis the Roman to the bilhopric. In 1373 bifliop
P^/^r transferred the fee of Lf/;«i to this town. In 1432, 1633, 1676 it
was confumed by fire, and in 1732 fuffered again by the fame dreadful
calamity.
3.
Seelo, a fmall town ftanding on an eminence.
4. Sachjhidorf, a village and royal farm, which is alfo the feat of a
bailiwick.
5. Golzo, another village and royal farm, which is likewife the feat of
a bailiwick-amt.
6. Fricdrichfaue, a royal farm.
7. The bailiwick of Bleyen and Cußrin.
8. WoUup, a royal farm, and the feat of a bailiwick.
9. Wilhelmfaue, a royal farm.
Vol. V. 4 R lo- Goritz.,