FORCHHEIM, a town in upper Franconia, in the Land of Bavaria, near the confluence of the Wiesent and the Regnitz, 16 m. S.S.E. of Bamberg. Pop. I0,346. Forchheim was the residence of the Carolingian sovereigns, including Charle magne, in the 9th century. Many diets were held here, and here Conrad I. and Louis the Child were chosen German kings. The town was given by the emperor Henry II. in 1007 to the bishops of Bamberg, and, except for a short period during the i i th cen tury, it remained in their possession until 1802, when it was ceded to Bavaria. The fortifications of the town were dismantled in 1838. It has a Gothic Collegiate church and industries of the town include spectacle making and weaving, dyeing, brewing and paper-making. The château occupies the site of the Carolingian palace which was destroyed in i 246.