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dtiu to the Princes oi Anhalt, His Tons were named Ulrich and Günther.
Albert ("on to the latter, on the deceafe of his father in 1426, fucceeded to
the government. In 1457 he ceded the county oi Lindau to the hoiife of
AiÜMilt, widi power of redemption, and dying in 1460 was fucceeded by
his fons John and James ; the latter of thefe died firft, and on the deceale
of the former his fon Joachim became Sovereign. Joachim was fucceeded
by his (on Wichmann, who on his father's death in 1520, being a minor,
entered on the government, but died in 1524, and in him the family oi
the Counts of Lindau and the Lords oi Ruppin, as they ftiled themklves,
became extind. So mean were the circumllances of this laft Lord at his
death that he h?A neither carriage nor horfes to fetch him a phyfician from
Berlin, for wliich purpofe he wanted to borrow the fum ot one hundred
guilders from NeiJ Rnppin. On his death the county of Ruppin efcheated
to Joachim \.
Eledlor oi Brandenburg as Lord paramount, who was likcwife
for laying his hands on the county of Lindau, but together with Mockeni,
that was left as a fief of Brandetihurg to the houfe of Anhalt.
The towns and bailiwicks of the county or circle of Ruppin, arrjong
which is, 'J arfi
1. Neiv-Ruppin, the capital of the country, feated on a large lafee
formed by the river Rhin, and being the largeft moll populous place, and
likewife the town of the greateil trade in this lordihip. In it ate above
eight hundred burghers, with two Lutheran churches, in one of which,
namely the convent-church, lie interred divers of the ancient Lords of the
country : Here is alio a Cahinijl church and a grammar-lchool. Neiv-
Ruppin deals largely in cloth of its own manufacture, and likewife
in beer and grain j but the greatefl; part of the latter comes from Pc/;?frania
and Mecklenburg. It was built in j i
94, and has been frequently deftroved
bv fire.
2. Old-Ru[pin, an open little town feated on the above-mentioned lake,
oppofite to New-Ruppin, and having a caftle which was once the refidence
of the Counts of L/Wö« and the Lovds oi Ruppin, but is now fallen to
decay. This place is the feat of a prefedurate-office, and belonged to
King Frederick II. as hereditary Prince.
3. JViilierhaufen on the Dojfe, next to New-Ruppin, the befl town in the
country. At this place formerly flood a caftle belonging to the Lords of
P.ktLo.
4. Granfee, or Gravjoy, a fmall town, but one of the moft: ancient in the
whole lordihip.
5. Lindo, likewife a fmall town which was probably fo called by the
Counts, frorn their original feat in the principality oi Anhalt. Exclufive of
odier fires this place futfered greatly by that dreadful calamity in 1746. It
is, however, the feat of a royal bailiwick, and contains one Lutheran and
one Qakiiiiß church, and without the town is a foundation for ladies,
which