FUSSEN  , a

town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, at the foot of the Alps (Tirol), on the Lech, 2500 ft. above the sea, with a branch line to Oberdorf on the railway to Augsburg . Pop . 4000 . It has six Roman Catholic churches, a Franciscan monastery and a castle . Rope-making is an important industry . The castle, lying on a rocky eminence, is remarkable for the peace signed here on the 22nd of April 1745 between the elector Maximilian III., Joseph of Bavaria and Maria Theresa . Two miles to the S.E., immediately on the Austrian frontier, romantically situated on a rock overlooking the Schwanensee, is the magnificent castle of Hohenschwangau, and a little to the north, on the site of an old castle, that of_ Neuschwanstein, built by Louis II. of Bavaria . See H . Feistle, Fussen and Umgebung (1898) .