Note 55 — Chapter V
Reading edition
According to an old German writer quoted by Schultes, Ens was a walled city as early as the year 900, and already of some consequence. “Bavari citissime in id ipsum tempus (A.D. 900) pro tuitioni illorum regni validissimam urbem in littore Anesi fluminis muro obposuerunt.” But, in this case, why is it called a village by Leopold, in the twelfth century?