FRANKENHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in Thuringia, on an artificial arm of the Wipper, a tributary of the Saale, 36 m. N.N.E. of Gotha. Pop. (1933) 7,167. It consists of an old and a new town, the latter mostly rebuilt since a destructive fire in 1833, and has an old château of the princes of Schwarzburg. Its industries include the manufacture of organs, cigars and buttons, and there are brine springs, with baths, in the vicinity.