a town of Bavaria, in the circle of Swabia, on the left bank of the Danube, 24 miles N.W. of Augsburg. Pop. 3500. It was formerly the ordinary residence of the bishops of Augsburg, and the seat of a university founded in 1552, but abolished in 1804. It has a lyceum, gymnasium, and other schools, 4 churches, 2 chapels, 2 monasteries, an orphan asylum, ship-building docks, paper mills, and some trade. There is also a small town of this name in Rhenish Prussia, 26 miles south of Treves.