HILDBURGHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the Land of Thuringia, situated on the river Werra, 19 m. S.E. of Meinin gen, on the railway Eisenach-Coburg. Pop. (1925) 6,515. Hild burghausen (in records Hilpershusia and Villa Hilperti) belonged in the 13th century to the counts of Henneberg, from whom it passed to the landgraves of Thuringia and then to the dukes of Saxony. In 1683 it became the capital of a principality which in 1826 was united to Saxe Meiningen.
It has a former ducal palace erected 1685-95, and an old town hall. The manufactures include toys, baskets, turnery, agricultural machines, knives, mineral waters and condensed soups.