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5. The prefecflurate of Jagersburg, in which lies
yagenburg, a feat of the Princes, and four other villages.
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6. The prefedturate of Zwingenberg lies on the Bergßrcifzr, in''it is
the celebrated mountain of MaJches^ in Latin Mclibocus, which is one of the
higheft in all Germany. It is a received opinion that from the name of this
mountain and the Catti, who dwelt on it, that is from the Catti Meliboci
and Cattimelibocia, the name of Kat'zenellnbogeii has by gradual corruption
been derived. This prefedlurate confifts of two cantreds, or hundreds.
1. To the firft belongs
Ziaingenberg, a town, (ituate on the Berg-ftrafze. In this place originally
ftüod a caftle, to which, in the thirteenth century, was added a church
and foon after, namely, in the year 1273, the Emperor Radolph I. built a
privileged town here. In 1693 the greateft part of this place was deftroyed
by the French, but again rebuilt to advantage.
The villages of Auerbach, Bedenkirchen and Hochftatten, together witk
Auerberg, a ruined caftle.
2. In the fecond hundred are twelve villages ; namely, Ahbach, Malchen,
&c. Bickenbach and Ji/gejiheim belong in common to Hejfe-Darmftadt and
Erbach. -: ,-
7. The prefedurate of Licht'enberg contains thirteen places ; viz.
Lichtenberg, a caftle lying in ruins on a hill near Odenivalde.
Reinheim, a town, feated on the river Gernfprenz.
Ernfihofen, Uberau and Uppcr-Ramjtadt, three large villages.
Georgerihaiifz,
a village belonging to the family of Harthaufen.
Frankenftein, Vif5x Frankenhaufen, a ruined caftle, ftandinghigh, and the
original houfe of the noble family of that name.
%. The gemeinfhaft, ov commim'ity, oiUmftadf, in the Odenwalde, confifts
of fixteen places, being poffelTed by He/fe-Darm/iadf and the Eleftor-Palatine.
HeJ/e-CaJf'l fovmedy had alio a (hare in it ; but, in the year 1708,
this was transferred to Hejfe-Darmjtadt. In it is
Great-Vmftadt, a very ancient town, but formerly larger than at prefent.
Near it ftands the village of Klein-Umffadt.
Bremsbach,
Lcwer-Keinjpach and other villages.
9. The lordfliip of Epftein, belonging to Heß'e-Darmßad, lies, at no
great diftance from the conflux of the Rhitie and Mayn, being feated amidft
the territories of Mentz. This diftridl: abounds in grain, wine and wood,
Godfrey Yl\. lord of Epftein and Munzenberg, and count of D/V/s;, in the
fifteenth century, fold one half both of the lordftlip and town to the Landgrave
William of Heffe.
Epftein, a fmall town, with a feat, of which the Elector of Mentz is
a half proprietor, in the year 13 18, was railed to a town by Leivis
of Bavaria.
The four foreft-villages of Langenlyain, Lorsbach, MajJ'enheitn and JVallau.
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