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„6 GERMANY. [Heffe.
De!kenheim, or Telkenheim, a market-town, created iuch, in the year
1320, by the Emperor Lenois.
Dicdetibergen, ISfordcnJtadt, and feven other villages, with fome detached
manours.
10. The prefeäurate of Branbach and the parifli of Katzenellnboge?i,
belong properly to the lower county of Katzenellnbogm-, and on the extinction
of the male-line of the counts thereof, devolved, as did alfo the whole
county, to the houfe of Hejj'e. The Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous
fettled it, together with the lower county of Katzenellnbogen, on his fon
Philip ; and, at his deceafe, the pariili of Katzenellnbogen, as at that time
belonging to the prefe(5lurate of Ilohenjiein., fell to the Landgrave Lewis of
Hcße-Cajjel ; P/j/Z^^s widow remaining in pofleflion of the prefeöurate of
Braubach. This lady hkewife dying, Maurice.^ Landgrave of Hejfe-Cajfely
acquired, by inheritance and exchange, two thirds of that prefedturate, and
j^eJfe-Darmftadt^ ßmply by inheritance, one third. By virtue of a compadl
made in the year 1627, the houfe of Darmfiadt acquired the whole lower
county of Katzenellnbogen, together with the prefeöurate of Braumbach and
the parilh of Katzenellnbogen. The laft of thefe, in the year 1643, being
affigned by the Landgrave George as a mortgage to his brother "Job?! for a debt
of 40,000 rixdollars. In 1648, by a new convention, Hefe-Cajfel ohtamcd
the lower connty o( Katzenellnbogen and the prefeäurate oi Braubach, exc\\x^i\Q
of the Callel part and the parifh oi' Katzenelhibogen : It was likewifeftipulated
that the prefedurate o( Braubach and the parifli oi Katzenelhibogen fhould,
on the deceafe of the Landgrave John, and his male heirs, return without
any oppofition, either by word or deed, to the Cajfel line, who, on the
other hand, was at its option to reftore what it enjoyed at that time in lieu
of them, and to liquidate all debts, mortgages and affignments of the Landgrave
George, which were payable out of it. Thus Hejfe-Darmßadt , together
with a third which was before in its hands, arrived likewife to the
pofleffion of the two thirds of the prefedturate of Braubach belonging to
Hejj'c-Cajfel, as alfo of the whole parifli of Katzenellnbogen. In the year 1 747,
Heffe-Caffel was for recovering the faid two thirds of the prefeöurate of
Branbach and the parifh oi Katzenelhibogeji ; but HeJfe-Darmßadt maintained
that all right to fuch an exchange was legally expired by prefcription j and
thus the matter ended. In it is
1. The town and prefeöurate of Braubach.
Braubach, a town, feated on the Rhine, in the year 1288, received a
charter, equal to that of the town of Oppenheim, from the Emperor Rodolph.
In a vale running along the Rhirie is the feat of Philipsburg, which
was ereöed about the year 1568 by the Landgrave Philip the lounger, on a
rock yielding mines of copper and filver. Above the city ftands the caftle
of Marxbiir^. In its neighbourhood are likewife fome mineral fprings, the
mofl noted of which is the Dinkholder.
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