NEUBURG  , a

town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, is pleasantly situated on the Danube, 12 M . W. of Ingolstadt, on the railway to Neuoffingen . Pop . (1905) 8532 . It is a place of ancient origin, but is chiefly noteworthy because formerly for two centuries it was the capital of the principality of Pfalz-Neuburg . Its most important building is the old residence of its princes, the handsomest part of which is in the Renaissance style of the 16th century . The town also contains an Evangelical and seven Roman Catholic churches, a town hall, several schools and convents, a theatre, and an historical museum with a valuable library . It has electrical works and breweries, while fruit and vegetables are cultivated in the neighbourhood, a considerable trade in these products being carried on by the Danube . Neuburg was originally an episcopal see . In the loth century it passed to the counts of Scheyern, and through them to Bavaria, being ceded to the Rhenish Palatinate at the close of a war in 1507 . From 1557 to 1742 it was the capital of a small principality ruled by a cadet branch of the family of the elector palatine of the Rhine . This principality of Pfalz-Neuburg had an area of about r0oo sq. m. and about ioo,000 inhabitants .

In 1742 it wasunited again with the Rhenish Palatinate, with which it passed in 1777 to Bavaria . See Gremmel, Geschichte

des Herzogtums Neuburg (Neuburg, 1872); and Fuhrer durch die Stadt Neuburg and deren Umgebung (Neuburg, 1904) .