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6o GERMANY. [Hefle,
prefe£lurdte of Bovenäen belongs to the Eledlor of Briaipiüick. On account
of this lordfliip the Landgrave of Hejfe-Cajfel furniflies the Emperor with
one horfeman, or twelve florins per month, being afleiled to the chamber
at TVctzkr in eight rixdollars, nine kruitzers and three quarters.
Of the ancient caftle oi Plejfa we flill fee fome ruins on a high mountain
beyond Eddigehaufeti. To this lordlliip alfo belongs
Bovenden, a large village, lying on the Leine, which thrives by its
vicinity to the town of Gottingen. This place contains two ennobling
eflates, exclufive of a prefedturate and toU-houfe.
The villages oi Auger fl
ein and Eddigehaufen, in which is a manor belonging
to Count i?t7Vr/7j^;//t7;, together with Upper-BillingP:iaufen, Spambcckzn^
Holzcroda, near the lafl: of which formerly flood a town named Mofebor?!,
In this lordfliip is likewife reputed the conventual prefedlurate of Hockclheim,
lying not far from Nordheim, and being originally a caftle, which,
in the year 1242, was converted into a monaftery for ladies by the three
brothers, Poppo, Gotffchalck and Ludolph, \ovds of Plcifa ; but the revenues
belonging to it were afterwards, by the landgrave JVilUafnthe Wife, affigned
far the relief of clergymen's widows. This place was the burial-place of
the lords of Pleßi.
II. Of the lower county of Katzenellnbogen a map was publillied
by /i3;«^//«'s heirs in the year 1745, which makes the one hundred and
fifth in the Atlas of Germany. This county lies in the Wetterau^
amidft the territories of 'Triers and the Palatinate, Mentz, Najfau, Idßein,.
and that of the four joint-lords. In it are feveral fine woods and mineral
fprings. The principal employment of the inhabitants is agriculture and
the making of wine, and fome places have alfo woollen manufactories. It
has been obferved above that the fovereignty of this county belongs to the
family of Heffe-Cajfel, to which, by virtue thereof, belong alfo the epifcopal
revenues, together with the Imperial, circular and other taxes ; for
the levying of which it has a commifiary.
The whole county is divided into three prefedlurates : namely,
I. The prefefturate of Rheinfels. In it is
S. Goar, commonly called SajiSi Geiver, the capital of the lower countjr
of Katzenellnbogen, and lying on the weft fide of the Rhine, in which, near
this place, is a water-fall. In the town-church is performed the Roman
Catholic fervice. The toll here payable by vefiels paffing on the Rhine
rifes high, and is received in common by the two fovereign families in
HeJJ'e. In the year 1561, the greater part of this town was confumed by
fire.
Near it ftands
Rheinjels, a fortrefs, feated on a high rock, being originally a convent
known by the name of Mattenburg, which, in the year 1245, or 1246,
was converted into a caftle. In 1647, the troops of HeJ[e-CaJ[el made
thenafelves mafters of this place j but, on a compad: made in the year j 648,
reftored