A quaint old town of Würtemberg, on the Neckar, 23 m. N. of Stuttgart; has a fine 11th-century Gothic church, and the Thief's Tower (Diebsthurm); is associated with the captivity of Goetz von Berlichingen ( q. v .); it is now a busy commercial centre, and manufactures silverware, paper, beet-sugar, chemicals, &c.