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CRAILSHEIM, a town of Germany, in the Land of Wiirt temberg, on a tributary of the Neckar. Pop. (1933) 6,391.

It was incorporated as a town in 1338, passed later into the possession of the burgraves of Nurnberg, and came in 1791 to Prussia, in 1806 to Bavaria and in I 8 i o to Wurttemberg. There are tanneries and machine workshops, and trade is in wine.