BIBERACH, a town in the Land of Wurttemberg, Ger many, on the Riss, a small affluent of the Danube, 2 2m. S.S.W. of Ulm. Pop. (1933), 10,426. It is still surrounded by mediaeval walls and towers, and has a 12th century church. Biberach be came a free imperial city in 1312, but in 1803 it was deprived of its privileges and assigned to Baden, and in 1806 was transferred to Wurttemberg. The poet Wieland, born in 1733 at the neigh bouring village of Oberholzheim, spent several years in the town. Its main industry is cloth, and its fruit markets are famous.