Home1842 Edition

ALTENOTTING

Volume 2 · 97 words · 1842 Edition

a bailiwick in the province of the Lower Danube, in Bavaria, extending over 134 square miles or 85,760 acres. The soil is fertile, and produces good crops of rye, buck-wheat, flax, and potatoes, and feeds many cattle. It comprehends one city, six market-towns, and 96 villages. The number of inhabitants is 14,291.

a market-town of Bavaria, in the bailiwick of the same name. It contains 139 houses, and 1240 inhabitants, who depend chiefly on the numerous pilgrims who repair for their devotions to an image of the Virgin in a chapel which is the Loretto of Bavaria.