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Work on Landshut's parish and collegiate church was begun by the master builder Hans Krumenauer in 1385 and concluded in 1500 with the considerable involvement of Hans von Burghausen. With its unusual proportions, which are extended in the vertical, and its combination of the high and late Gothic styles, the church is one of the most significant Gothic buildings in south Germany. At 130.6 m the tower is the tallest brick tower in the world (source: wikipedia).

Opening times:
April - September: 7.30 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.
October - March:  7.30 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.

Monday/Friday closed from 10.30 a.m. until 3.00 p.m.!

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Allerseelenkapelle, St. Martin

every first Sunday in month (May - November):
11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

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Opening times:
October - March: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., last guided tour 3.30 p.m.
April - September: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., last guided tour 5 p.m.

Trausnitz Castle was established as a seat of the Wittelsbacher family in 1204 by Duke Ludwig I of Bavaria, known as the “Kehlheimer". In the late Middle Ages, between 1255 and 1503, when Bavaria was divided into many separate dukedoms, Landshut became the central point of Lower Bavaria. As the seat of the Lower Bavarian dukes the castle gained considerably in significance. After the end of the Middle Ages, the castle enjoyed its heyday as the court of the Bavarian crown princes, particularly during the time of crown prince Wilhelm from 1568 to 1579.

Only guided tours

Opening times:
October - March: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., last guided tour 3.30 p.m.
April - September: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., last guided tour 5 p.m.

Closed on Mondays (Except on holidays)

The Landshut Residence is the earliest example of a Renaissance palace in Germany. It is a monumental symbol of the duke's role in the city.With the death of Georg the Rich in 1503 the male line of the Landshutbranch of the ruling Wittelsbacher family came to an end and the town was plunged into a war of succession. As aresult, Landshut lost its position as ducal seat and power passed to the family's Munich line: to Duke Albrecht and after his death to his oldest son Wilhelm IV. However, Wilhelm's younger brother Ludwig was to restore Landshut to some of its old importance: he successfully challenged the primogeniture law of 1506, which dictated that the kingdom could not be divided and that power must pass solely to the oldest male heir. Ludwig argued that asthe law was passed after his birth, it could not apply to him. He was awarded the right to co-govern and consequently established himself in 1516 in Landshut and remained responsible for the Bavarianlowlands until his death in 1545.

The town hall consists of three buil-dings from the Gothic era united under one facade.
The state or ceremonial room is situated on the upper floor of the central building and is renowned for its paintings of the “Royal Wedding of Landshut”.

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Since medieval times the first floor of the central building has been dominated by the magnificent Ceremonial Room. During the Landshuter Hochzeit of 1475 (the wedding of Hedwig, the Polish princess and Duke Georg the Rich) the room was used for the wedding dance and it was here that the noble ladies leaned out of the windows to watch the tournament held in the Altstadt below. 400 years later the town authorities commissioned the famous architect Georg Hauberrisser to remodel the room in a neo-Gothic style.

The room hecreated is one of the most impressive examples of the decorative artwork of the late 19th Century. The necessary monies were authorised by the fairy tale monarch himself, King Ludwig II of Bavaria. The massive wooden architecture of the ceiling reaches up into the attic of the house, revealing the steep slant of the roof. The ceiling is decorated with the coats of arms of important families. Carved faces projecting out into the room remind of the gargoyles on Gothic cathedrals. The wooden pillars supporting the rear balcony are also decorated with coats of arms. The mighty bronze chandelier and the elaborately tiled fireplace, a fine example of Landshut's pottery tradition, both add to the splendid atmosphere. Even the wooden panelling and the door fittings form part of the work of art as a whole.

And all this before the visitor has properly admired the real wonder of the room: the paintings around the walls.

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Monday - Friday: 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. -  or by arrangement

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Founded in 1232 by Duchess Ludmilla, the widow of the founder of Landshut Ludwig the Kelheimer, this is among the best preserved medieval convents in Bavaria. The convent chapel also serves as the tomb of the Bavarian Wittelsbach family.

Alternating exhibitions of present and past times

The hospital was first documented in 1232 and probably originated with the founding of Landshut. From 1722 to 1728 a baroque house was built in its place. This is used nowadays as a senior residence.

The Röckl Tower on the Isar promenade was formerly a fortress tower built into the city wall and serves today as literature café and exhibition rooms.

The Ländtor was constructed during the expansion of the town in the middle of the thirteenth century. Its name comes from “Lände” meaning berth or mooring place for the rafts and boats which came from the Ba-varian highland.

From the middle of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century the “Landschaftshaus” was the district head office of the authority dealing with finances and accounting relating to the lower Bavarian political representatives, nobility, clergy and citizens. The colourful renaissance facade depicts the Bavarian dukes.

The palace was built in 1745 for Baron Etzdorf. The richly decorated Rococo stucco facade is probably the work of Johann Baptist Zimmerman who was one of the most significant craftsmen of his time.

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This downtown area, which was created in 1338 as a third major urban expansion, framed with its beautiful houses in the center standing and impressive Jodokskirche, the oldest parish church of the city. Provided to put the former is located outside the city wetland dry and to build a city wall that there colonizing citizens were freed 10 years tax payments.

St Jodok is the oldest parish church in Landshut. The early Gothic basilica (1338) was built in the style of the mendicant order (vaulted choir, rood screen, nave with a flat ceiling). The side chapel was added after the fire of 1403, when additionally the nave was vaulted and decorated with so-called “Landshut Ochre”. From 1840-90 St Jodok was almost completely redesigned in a neo-Gothic style.

The elector Maximilian I decided to establish a Jesuit monastery in Landshut in 1628. The Church of St Ignatius was erected by Johann Holl from 1631-1641 on the former site of the duke’s mint.

The Dominican church was built in 1271 in the early Gothic style. From 1747 to 1749 the Munich court artist Johann Baptist Zimmermann created an interior décor of unequalled elegance, hence the Dominican church in Landshut is one of the most outstanding examples of Bavarian rococo.

Concert Hall Holy Cross Church

Since 1999, the town of Landshut owner of the "Holy Cross Church", which was built as a church of the Franciscan monastery "Holy Cross" in the years 1698-1700.

Baumeister was Philipp Plank, a lay brother of the Franciscan Order, Wessobrunner plasterers and Georg Asam have adorned the church. An extensive refurbishment and restoration was completed in 2004 for the 800th anniversary of the city of Landshut. So is the Holy Cross Church an architecturally and historically valuable art meeting facilities are available, the (of which 90 in the gallery) has 245 seats. He is particularly well suited for (chamber) concerts, musical and literary and festive events.

History of Holy Cross Church
Ludwig and Georg, the "Rich Dukes", worried in the second half of the 15th century that the Terziarinnen the "Cross church" and houses were at Freyung. Because all the buildings were very dilapidated after the Thirty Years War, the sovereign granted the Franciscans a new building. 1696 was laid the foundation stone ceremony for a spacious monastery and a church. Already in 1700 the nuns could worship in their new Holy Cross Church. During secularization the monastery was abolished in 1802. Monastery and church were initially the University and the "Georgianum", the oldest German seminary available. When this took off after a few years, the pupils of the minor seminary, the Freisinger Domdiakon Kepser had donated in times of Counter-Reformation, and later high school found a - interrupted by several changes - homeland. Because both institutions, which are now housed as "National Study Seminar" and "Hans-Carossa-Gymnasium" still in the former monastery, a correspondingly large music and Function Room wished the church was "reformed" - and disfigured it: pulled on Empor height one a false ceiling a. The result was above a "Aula", the lower part is used as a coal cellar and storage room. Some structural changes and damage had to the former monastery church still to endure, to back built in 1957, the "Aula" in a church hall and first restoration work could be carried out. The whole baroque church was finally saniert.en constructively from of 2002. By 2004, space cup, stucco, ceiling paintings, altar painting and façade have also been professionally restored as appropriate, in time for the 800th anniversary of the city and the 375-year anniversary of the school Hans-Carossa-Gymnasium.

Ludwig the Rich was the son of Heinrich the Rich and father of Georg the Rich who married the King of Poland’s daughter Hedwig in the famous “Royal Wedding of Landshut” in 1475. Ludwig was also founder of Bavaria’s first university in Ingolstadt in 1472.

In the park at the Witt street this stylish pavilion was built in 1903 on the occasion of former industrial and commercial exhibition built as a bandstand. He invites you to linger. Around the pavilion there during the "Landshut Wedding" medieval bustle with food, drink and music, the so-called "camp life". Furthermore offers from there a beautiful view up to the castle Trausnitz.