CRAILSHEIM, or KRAILSHEIM  , a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, on the Jagst, a tributary of the Neckar, at the junction of railways to Heilbronn and Furth . Pop . (1900) 5251 . There are two Evangelical churches and a Roman Catholic church, and a handsome town hall, with a tower 225 ft. high . The industrial establishments include extensive tanneries and machine workshops, and there is a brisk trade in cattle and agricultural produce . Crailsheim was incorporated as a town in 1338, successfully withstood a siege by the forces of several Swabian imperial cities (1379-1380), a feat which is annually celebrated, passed later into the possession of the burgraves of Nuremberg, and came in 1791 to Prussia, in 1806 to Bavaria and 1810 to Wurttemberg .