Fürth

Fürth, a manufacturing town of Bavaria, is situated at the confluence of the Rednitz and the Pegnitz, 5 miles NW. of Nuremberg by the earliest German railway (1835). It is famous for its mirrors, bronze colours, tinsel, lead pencils, combs, optical instruments, metal toys, wares of beaten gold, silver, and other leaf-metal, turnery wares, furniture, stationery, and chicory. The town has also some large breweries, and an extensive foreign trade. Pop. (1875) 27,360; (1890) 43,206, of whom 8715 were Catholics and 3175 Jews. The town was burned to the ground in 1634 and 1680. It fell to Bavaria in 1806.