ANDERNACH, the Antoniacum of the ancients, was formerly a town of Germany, in the electorate of Co logne, but it now belongs to France, and is situated near the Rhine, in the department of the Rhine and Moselle. Andernach was one of the fortresses built by Drusus, as a check upon the rebellious spirit of the Germans ; and there still exists an old tower, at one of the angles of the wall, which is said to have been built by that emperor. In 1496, Andernach was rendered municipal by the elector of Cologne, to whom it belonged before its annexation to the French empire. A toll is exacted from vessels passing along the Rhine, for the support of the walls. Andernach carries on a considerable trade in glass, potteries, mill-stones, mineral waters, timber, and the soriff, a stone conveyed by the Rhine to Holland, for the construction of dikes. It derives great advantages from the rafts of timber which pass to Hol land, and particularly to Dordrecht. The value of one of these rafts is computed at 80,000 guilders, and an immense number of people are necessary to guide it down the river. There are three medicinal springs in
the neighbourhood, which are known under the name of the mineral waters of Tanistein, or Tinstcin. Before this town came under the power of France, a sermon was annually preached in the market-place, on St Bar tholomew's day, against the inhabitants of Lintz ; and the revengeful spirit of the inhabitants was so highly excited by this irreligious ceremony, that, if any of the people of Lintz had made their appearance, they would have been instant victims of their fury. The origin of this hostility is attributed to an engagement under the emperor Charles V., in which the inhabitants of Lintz massacred those of Rheinech and Andernach, and sent home those whom they spared, with their ears cut off. E. Long. 7° 22'. N. Lat. 50° 29'. See Render's Tour, vol. i. p. 316. and Peuchet's Diet. Univ. de Geogranh. Commerfante, tom. ii. p. 73. (o)