CRAILSHEIM

city, Baden-Wrttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies along the Jagst River, about 45 miles (70 km) northeast of Stuttgart. A Frankish settlement in the 6th and 7th centuries, it was chartered in 1320 and passed to the Hohenzollerns in 1399 and to Wrttemberg in 1810. Most of the old city with its historic buildings was destroyed in World War II, but the Romanesque church of St. John and the 14th-century Chapel of Our Lady were subsequently restored. Crailsheim is a rail and road junction and manufactures machinery, clothing, canned foods, and wood products. Pop. (1989 est.) 26,678.