Donauworth

Donauworth, a town of Bavaria, at the junction of the Wornitz with the Danube, twenty-five miles north-west of Augsburg. It was once a free Imperial city, but its importance has become almost insignificant. The town is of some historic note, for in 1607 it fell under the ban of the Empire and was punished for insulting the Host; it was twice stormed in the Thirty Years' war; in 1704 Marlborough took a French and Bavarian camp formed near by; and in 1805 Soult there defeated an Austrian army.