Freising

Freising, a town of Bavaria, on the Isar, 22 miles NNE. of Munich by rail, with 9850 inhabitants, and manufactures of threshing-machines and hand-mills, turf-cutting, and book-printing (since 1495). The chief buildings are the beautiful cathedral (1160) and the former episcopal palace (now a theological seminary). Close by is an old Benedictine abbey (725–1803), now a royal model-farm, with schools of brewing and horticulture. The bishopric of Freising dated as far back as 724 A.D., and its bishops were made princes of the empire in the 17th century, their authority embracing an area of 320 sq. m., with 27,000 inhabitants; the see was secularised in 1802.