HEILBRONN, a fortified town of Württemberg, formerly a free imperial city, on the right bank of the Neckar, 26 miles N. of Stuttgart. The most interesting of its buildings is the church of St. Kilian, a Gothic edifice with a beautiful tower (225 feet high), the lower part of which was built in the thirteenth century, the upper part in 1529. The town-hall is an antique building, in which some interesting ancient records are deposited; and in the outskirts of the town is the tower in which Götz von Berlichingen was confined in 1525. The house of the Teutonic knights is now used as a barrack. Heilbronn has a gymnasium, public library, and a richly endowed hospital. The vicinity produces a tolerably good wine, and the town itself carries on an extensive transit trade between Frankfurt and South Germany. Its chief manufactures are woollen cloths
carpets, tobacco, silver articles, and chemicals. Pop. about 10,000.