Schweinfurt

Schweinfurt, an ancient and long an imperial free city in the north-west of Bavaria, on the Main, 28 miles NE. of Würzburg by rail. It contains a beautiful market-place, in which important cattle and wool markets are held. Wine-growing, sugar-refining, and manufactures of chemicals, paper, bells, dyeing materials, as white-lead, ultramarine, Schweinfurt green, &c., and numerous other articles are carried on. Pop. 12,502. Rückert, the poet, was born here; and a monument was erected in 1890.