GOPPINGEN  , a

town of Germany, in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, on the right bank of the Fils, 22 M . E.S.E. of Stuttgart on the railway to Friedrichshafen . Pop . (1905) 20,870 . It possesses a castle built, partly with stones from the ruined castle of Hohenstaufen, by Duke Christopher of Wurttemberg in the 16th century and now used as public offices, two Evangelical churches, a Roman Catholic church, a synagogue, a classical school, and a modern school . The manufactures are considerable and include linen and woollen cloth, leather, glue, paper and toys . There are machine shops and tanneries in the town . Three m . N. of the town are the ruins of the castle of Hohenstaufen . Goppingen originally belonged to the house of Hohenstaufen, and in 1270 came into possession of the counts of Wurttemberg . It was surrounded by walls in 1129, and was almost entirely rebuilt after a fire in 1782 . See Pfeiffer, Beschreibung and Geschichte der Stadt Goppingen (1885) .