ROSENHEIM  , a

town and watering-place of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, situated at the confluence of the Mangfall and the Inn, 40 M. by rail S.E. of Munich . Pop . (1905) 15,403 . It is an interesting town, with many medieval houses . Among its seven churches the Roman Catholic parish church, with a curious cupola and containing numerous old tombs and effigies, and that of the Holy Ghost (15th century), are remarkable . There are a monastery, two convents, several schools and a hospital . Rosenheim is frequented for its saline and sulphur baths, and there are important saltworks, the brine being conveyed from Reichenhall in pipes; it has also machine factories, metalworks and breweries . Cordage is manufactured, and there is a trade in cattle and grain . Although founded in the 12th century Rosenheim did not become a town until 1864 . See Ditterich, Rosenheim in Oberbayern (Munich, 1870), and Eid, Aus Altrosenheim (Rosenheim, 1906) .