FURTH, a manufacturing town of Germany, in the Land of Bavaria, at the confluence of the Pegnitz with the Regnitz, 5 m. N.W. from Nuremberg by rail, at the junction of lines to Hof and Wurzburg. Pop. (1885) 35,455; Furth was founded, according to tradition, by Charlemagne, and was for a time under the burgraves of Nuremberg, but about 1314 it was bequeathed to the see of Bamberg. In 1806 it came into the possession of Bavaria. The old St. Michaeliskirche is a hand some structure ; but its chief edifices are the new town hall, with a tower 175 ft. high. Furth owes its prosperity to the tolerance it meted out to the Jews, who found here an asylum from the oppression under which they suffered in Nuremberg, and who have here a synagogue and a high school. There are besides a wood carving and an agricultural school. Industries include production of chromolithographs and picture-books, manufacture of mirrors and mirror-frames, bronze and gold-leaf wares, pencils, toys, haberdashery, optical instruments, silver work, turnery, machinery and fancy boxes, and a trade is carried on also in hops, metals, wool and coal. A large annual fair is held at Michaelmas and lasts for I i days. The earliest railway in Germany was that between Nuremberg and Furth (opened Dec. 7,