1331: _Stadt Anspach,_ by J.B.Fischer (Anspach, 1786), p.

196.] which proved a notable twin possession of the family.

And then, in some seven years more (A.D.
1338), the big Orlamunde people, having at length, as was too usual, fallen considerably insolvent, sold Plassenburg Castle itself, the Plassenburg with its Town of Culmbach and dependencies, to the Hohenzollern Burggraves, [Rentsch, p.

157.] who had always ready money about them.

Who in this way got most of the Voigtland, with a fine Fortress, into hand; and had, independently of Nurnberg and its Imperial properties, an important Princely Territory of their own.