SAALFELD, a town of Saxe-Meiningen, on the left bank of the Saale, in the midst of the Thuringian forest, 41 miles E. of Meiningen. It is an old town, surrounded by walls, and containing many venerable buildings. Among these are the Gothic town-hall, and the church of St John, built in 1212, remarkable for its fine painted glass, and for a colossal wooden statue of the saint. There is a ducal palace in the town now used as a mint, and another in the suburbs with extensive gardens. Near the walls stand the remains of an old fort, said to have been built by Charlemagne to resist the incursions of the Slavonic tribes. Pop. 4550.