DILLINGEN  , a

town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, on the left bank of the Danube, 25 M . N.E. from Ulm, on the railway to Ingolstadt . Pop . (1905) 6078 . Its principal buildings are an old palace, formerly the residence of the bishops of Augsburg and now government offices, a royal gymnasium, a Latin school with a library of 75,000 volumes, seven churches (six Roman Catholic), two episcopal seminaries, a Capuchin monastery, a Franciscan convent and a deaf and dumb asylum . The university, founded in 1549, was abolished in 1804, being converted into a lyceum . The inhabitants are engaged in cattle-rearing, the cultivation of corn, hops and fruit, shipbuilding and the shipping trade, and the manufacture of cloth, paper and cutlery . In the vicinity is the Karolinen canal, which cuts off a bend in the Danube between Lauingen and Dillingen . In 1488 Dillingen became the residence of the bishops of Augsburg; was taken by the Swedes in 1632 and 1648, by the Austrians in 1702, and on the 17th of June 1800 by the French . In 1803 it passed to Bavaria .