DONAUWORTH, a town of Germany in the Land of Ba varia, on the left bank of the Danube, at the confluence of the WOrnitz, 25 m. N. of Augsburg by rail and at the junction of lines to Ulm and Ingolstadt. Pop. (1925) 4,821. It grew up during the nth and i2th centuries under the protection of the castle of Mangoldstein, and became for a time in the i3th a seat of the duke of Upper Bavaria. The town received the freedom of the Empire in i3o8, and resisted the encroachments of Bavaria till 1607, when the duke of Bavaria was authorized to punish the Pro testant inhabitants for their interference with the abbot of the Heilig-Kreuz. In the Thirty Years' War it was stormed by Gus " tavus Adolphus (1632), and captured by King Ferdinand (1634) Important battles were fought in the neighbourhood in 17°4 and in i8o5. The imperial freedom restored to the town by Joseph I. in 17o5 was again lost by reincorporation with Bavaria in 1714. The Kloster-Kirche (monasterial), a Gothic edifice, the church of the former Benedictine abbey, Heilig-Kreuz, the Gothic town hall and the so-called Tanz-haus, which now includes both a theatre and a school are notable. The industries include machinery, brew ing and saw-milling; the place is a river port, and trade is in agri cultural produce.