or RASTALL, a fortified town of the grand duchy of Baden, circle of Middle Rhine, on the Murg, not far from its confluence with the Rhine, 14 miles S. of Carlsruhe, and 30 N.E. of Strasburg. The palace, formerly occupied by the margraves of Baden-Baden, a building four storeys high, after the model of the palace at Versailles, is the most conspicuous edifice. It stands on a height, and has a tower surmounted with a gilt statue of Jupiter, and commanding an extensive view. The town is regularly built, and has several churches, a lyceum, and a normal school. Manufactures of tobacco, snuff, cutlery, mathematical and musical instruments are carried on here; and there is a considerable trade. Rastadt was first brought into importance by the Margrave Louis William, who had fixed his residence here in the end of the seventeenth century, it having previously been but a small village. The peace of 1714, which put an end to the war of the Spanish succession, was signed in the palace by Prince Eugene and Marshal Villars. A congress was held here in 1797-9, to negotiate a peace between France and the empire, after which the French ambassadors, Roberjet and Bonnier, were murdered on their return, only a short distance from the town, but by whom it was never ascertained. A monument now marks the place. At Rastadt the insurrection in Baden in 1849 first broke out; and the insurgents, after a three weeks' siege, were obliged to surrender at discretion to the Prussians. Pop. 7284.