a city of the circle of the Rezat, in the kingdom of Bavaria. It stands on the river Wernitz, is surrounded with ancient walls and towers, and though antique, is well built, and has broad streets. It contains a royal palace, three Lutheran churches, two Reformed, and one Catholic, and 815 houses, with 9800 inhabitants. It is the seat of the only exclusively Protestant university in the kingdom, which has twenty-six professors, and about 200 students, with a library of 80,000 volumes, a botanic garden, and several museums, with an anatomical theatre, and a chemical laboratory. There are numerous manufactures carried on, of cottons, hats, hosiery, gloves, paper, cutlery, &c. Long. 9° 1'. E. Lat. 49° 35'. 36° N.