DINKELSBUHL, a town of Germany, in the Land of Bavaria, on the Wornitz, 16 m. N. from Nordlingen by rail. Pop. (1925) 5,067. Fortified by the emperor Henry I., Dinkels biihl received in 1305 the same municipal rights as Ulm, and obtained in 1351 the position of a free imperial city, which it retained till 1802, when it passed to Bavaria. Its municipal code, the Dinkelsbiihler Recht, published in 1536, and revised in 1738, contained a very extensive collection of public and private laws. It is still surrounded by old walls and towers. The Deutsches Haus, the ancestral home of the counts of Drechsel-Deufstetten, is of the German renaissance style of wooden architecture. Brushes, gloves, stockings and gingerbread are the chief manu factures.