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HefTe.] GERMANY, 6i
reflored it, together with Katz, to the houfe of Hejfe-Rothenhrg, referving,
however, the privilege of putting a ganifon into it. By virlue of a decree
of the Dyet of Ratisbon, pafled in the year 1654, the right of garrifoninothis
fortrefs was adjudged to the houfe of Heß'e-Rotbenburg alone, but
with a claufe that accefs to it, in unavoidable exigencies relating to the
Empire, fliould, without denial or oppofition, be permitted to the reignin'jlioufe
of Hejfc-Caffel, but without prejudice to the i'zmWy oi Rothenburg and
its garrifon. In the year 1692, this place was gallandy defended by a Heßan
garnfon againfl: the French, who were obliged to raife the fiege thereof j
after which its fortifications were improved. Hejfe-Cafftl continued in
pofleflion of Rheinfeh tili tlie peace of Ryfwick, when it was agreed, that
that Prince, with a refcrvation of its right, fliould deliver it up to the
houfe of Hejfe-Rheififels, which was to provide it with a garrifon of its
own. It was garrifoned, however, by fome companies of Imperialijis till
the breaking out of the war for the Spam'ß} fucceflion, when the Emperor
transferred the garrifoning and defence thereof to the houfe of Heffe-Capl
which fo enlarged and flrengthened it that, in a folemn declaration, the
Landgrave affirms to have expended on it, from the year 1692 to the vear
1716, 1,120,438 rixdoUars. But this fortrefs being, by the peace of Baaden,
in the year 17 14, put on the fame footing as it had been by that of
Ryfwick, the houfe of Hejfe-Cüjel ^n^s obliged, in the year 171 8, to evacuate
it. In 1734, it recovered the pofTeirion of it j and at length, in
1754, the family oi Hcjfe-Rheinjeh formally renounced, in favour oi Heße-
Cajfel, the right of garrifoning this fortrefs, as alfo the quartering of trooos
in the lower county of Katzenelbibogen, and all portion or intereft in the
monthly contributions appropriated for the maintenance of the garrifon.
After a fufpenfion of one hundred and one years, the Proteftants have this
year performed divine fervice in their chapel.
Goarjkaufeny or Geioerßaujen, a fmall town, fituate on the eaft fide of
the Rhine, facing St. Goar. In its church the Lutherans and Proteftants
meet alternately. Near it, on a very high rock, ftands
KatZy or Neu-Katzenellnbogen, a caftle eredled in the year 1393. Thi*
place has fhared
the fame fate with the fortrefs of RJjeinJeh,
2. The prefedurate of Reichenberg. In it
Reichenberg, a caftle, feated on a high rock, which in the thirty years
war was feveral times taken and burned. It is at prefent inhabited by a civil
officer, and the Lutherans perform divine fervice in it.
Naßatt, a large village, near the ilfzt/'/i? in A^c?/?^// heath. In it are fome
farms belonging to nobles, and the three feveral religions enjoy the public
exercile of their religion here. Not far from it, near a mill on the river
Muhle, called Schwaiz, is a mineral fpring.
Gronauy or Grünau, originally a convent of BenediBlneSy flands
on^the rivulet of Claus^ which runs into the Muhle, In the {year 1535,
this