a town of the circle of Franconia, in Germany. It has a physic-garden, with 2000 different plants; a theatre for dissections, which has many curiosities in the anatomical way; and a handsome library. It is subject to the house of Brandenburg; and is seated on the confines of Bavaria, 15 miles from Nuremberg. E. lon. 9° 35'. N. lat. 47° 46'.