a well-built and pleasantly situated watering place of Bavaria, circle of Lower Franconia, on the Saale, 32 miles N. of Wurzburg. It has three saline springs (the Ruhacay, Pandar, and Max-Brunnen), much recommended for chronic diseases, gout, and stomach complaints. The number of visitors annually is about 4000. Between 400,000 and 500,000 bottles of the water are exported. Pop. about 1500. A little farther up the valley are the government salt works, supplied by Artesian wells, which have a regular rise and fall. One of these is about 2000 feet deep, and discharges, at intervals of three or four weeks (the discharge lasting about the same time), a column of water 80 feet high, at the rate of 100 cubic feet per minute. The propelling force is a stratum of nearly pure carbonic acid gas. The quantity of salt held in solution is from 26 to 27 per cent. The yearly product of these springs is about 1500 tons of the finest salt.