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Hefie.]
GERMANY.
4. The prefedlurate of Esch wege lies chiefly betwixt the Werra and the
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lofty mountain of Meifner, comprehending under it twenty villages. In it is
Ejchwege, a town of very great antiquity, and containing a palace, as
alfo two parifh-churches. In the years 1499, ^SSSy ^559> 1593 and
1637, it was confumed by fire. This town was for a confiderable time mortgaged
to John Cajhnir, Prince o^Anhalt. The flone-bridge here lies in a road
which is much frequented.
To this prefedlurate likewife belong the bailiwick of Beilßcm and Ger~
mcroda, the latter of which was formerly a convent.
5. The prefefturate of Ludwigstein, which isfmall and divided by the
rivulet of Geißer, contains
Ludwigßeifi, a caftle, feated on a hill on an elbow of the Werra.
Wigenhmifen, a little town, watered by the Geißer, which at this place
falls into the Werra,
Obf. The towns of Efchivege, IVitzetihaußn, Ailefidorf, as alfo the caftles
of Furße7ijtcin, Arnftein, Wanfried and the fortrefs of Allendorf, belonged
once to the county ofthat name, as this formed a part of the Nordheim
inheritance and the dutchy on the Wcfer. In the year 1264, Albert, duke
of Brunfwick, gave thefe places as a ranfom to Henry, Margrave of Meißen,
by whom he had been taken prifoner. Henry transferred them to
Sophia of Brabant and her fon Henry the Child, by which means it devolved
to the Principality of Heffe.
6. The prefe