a walled town of Germany, kingdom of Württemberg, circle of Schwarzwald on the Neckar, here joined by the Ammer, 18 miles S.S.W. of Stuttgart. The town is old and irregularly built, and is chiefly remarkable for its university founded in 1477, and which had among its professors Melanchthon and Reuchlin. It has faculties of Protestant and Roman Catholic theology, law, medicine, political economy, and philosophy; 62 professors and teachers, and 669 students. It has also a library of about 200,000 volumes, museum of natural history, collection of mathematical and philosophical instruments, observatory, botanic garden, &c. There are besides a Protestant and Roman Catholic seminary, and various other educational establishments in the town. The church of St George, a handsome edifice of the fifteenth century, contains several monuments of the princes of the house of Württemberg. The principal manufacture is that of woollen cloths, but there are also breweries, tanneries, and dye-works in the town. Pop. 9200.