a bailiwick in the grand duchy of Saxo-Weimar, containing one city and eleven villages. Its capital, of the same name, is on the Rhone, 22 miles W.S.W. of Halle, and 26 north of Weimar. This city is of considerable antiquity; and as early as 974, an imperial diet was held there under Otho II. A ducal castle crowns an adjoining eminence. It has some manufactures of cloth, salt-petre, and potash. Pop. 2550.