pfaffenzwang

Updated: September 15, 2024

Not content with strongly fortifying it, he erected at the opposite angle which the Maine forms with the Rhine, a new citadel, which was named Gustavusburg from its founder, but which is better known under the title of Pfaffenraub or Pfaffenzwang*. * Priests' plunder; alluding to the means by which the expense of its erection had been defrayed.

Friedrich Schiller - The History of the Thirty Years' War