Frankenthal

Frankenthal, a manufacturing town of Germany, in the Bavarian Palatinate, 7 miles SW. of Worms by rail, and $3\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ W. of the Rhine by a canal. Its industries include a sugar-factory, machine and boiler works, a cork-cutting factory, a bell-foundry, and breweries, and it has a trade in wine, iron, and timber. A village existed here in the 8th century. Created a town in 1577, and shortly afterwards made a fortress, Frankenthal suffered severely in the Thirty Years' War; it was burned to the ground by the French in 1689, but rebuilt in 1697. Pop. (1875) 7907; (1885) 10,942.