DURKHEIM, a town in the Bavarian Palatinate, Germany, near the foot of the Hardt mountains, and at the entrance of the valley of the Isenach, 15 m. N.W. of Spires on the railway Mon sheim-Neustadt. Pop. (1925), 7,22o. The town hall occupies the site of the castle of the princes of Leiningen-Hartenburg. It is well known as a health resort, for the grape cure and for the baths of the brine springs of Philippshalle which produce marketable salt. There is a brisk trade in wine. As a dependency of the Benedictine abbey of Limburg, built and endowed by Conrad II., Durkheim or Thurnigheim came under the counts of Leiningen, who in the 14th century made it the seat of a fortress. It was often damaged in wars but was rebuilt after the French invasion of 1689. The ruins of the Benedictine abbey of Limburg lie about 1 m. S.W. of the town; and in the neighbourhood rises the Kastanienberg, with ancient fortification of the Heidenmauer or Heathen's Wall.