Landshut

Landshut, a picturesque town of Upper Bavaria, on the Isar, 44 miles by rail NE. of Munich. Of its eleven churches, St Martin's (1477) has a steeple 436 feet high. The castle of Transnitz (c. 1232) was partially restored in 1872–74. Landshut has several breweries, manufactories of tobacco, wagons, hats, &c., and an active trade in corn. The Dominican monastery (1271) was the seat of the university, removed hither from Ingolstadt in 1800, and transferred to Munich in 1826. During the Thirty Years' War and the war of the Austrian succession Landshut was several times captured; and here on 16th April 1809 the Austrians drove back the Bavarians, but were in turn defeated by Napoleon five days later. Pop. (1875) 14,780; (1885) 17,873. See works by Wiesend (1858-78) and Kalcher (1887).