FRANKENHAUSEN, a town of Germany, principality of Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt, on the Little Wipper, 36 miles N.N.E. of Gotha. It consists of an old and a new town, the latter mostly rebuilt since a very destructive fire in 1833; and has an old castle, two churches, a college, hospital, printing establishment, and mineral baths. In the vicinity is a salt mine. Pop. 5000.