DINKELSBUHL  , a

town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, on the WSrnitz,16 m . N. from Nordlingen, on the rail-way to Dombuhl . Pop . 5000 . It is an interesting medieval town, still surrounded by old walls and towers, and has an Evangelical and two Roman Catholic churches . Notable is the so-called Deutsches Haus, the ancestral home of the counts of Drechsel-Deufstetten, a fine specimen of the German renaissance style of wooden architecture . There are a Latin and industrial school, several benevolent institutions, and a monument to Christoph von Schmid (1768—x854), a writer of stories for the young . The inhabitants carry on the manufacture of brushes, gloves, stockings and gingerbread, and deal largely in cattle . Fortified by the emperor Henry I., Dinkelsbuhl received in 1305 the same municipal rights as Ulm, and obtained in 1351 the position of a free imperial city, which it retained till 1802, when it passed to Bavaria . Its municipal code, the Dinkelsbuhler Recht, published in 1536, and revised in 1738, contained a very extensive collection of public and private laws .