MEMMINGEN, a town of Bavaria, in the district ol Schwaben and Neuburg, is situated about 35 miles to the south-west of Augsburg, near the river Hier. It is a well-built town, still partly surrounded with walls, and contains a Roman Catholic and three Protestant churches, a townhouse of 1580, and several schools and charitable institutions. Its industrial products are yarn, calico, woollen goods, and thread. A considerable trade is carried on in hops, which are extensively cultivated in the neighbourhood, and in wool, leather, and grain. The population in 1880 was 8050.

Memm⅛gen, first mentioned in a document of 1010, belonged originally to the Guelph family. In 1286 it became a free city of the empire, a position which it maintained down to 1802, when it was allotted to Bavaria. In 1529 Memmingen was one of the “protesting” towns represented at the diet of Spires. During tho Thirty Years’ War it was alternately occupied by Swedes and Imperialists. In 1800 the French under Moreau gained a victory over the Austrians near Memmingen. Compare Dobel, Memmingen im Reformations Zeitalter, 1877-78.