LANDSHUT  , a

town in the kingdom of Bavaria, on the right bank of the Isar, 40 M . N.E. of Munich on the main line of rail-way to Regensburg . Pop . (loos) 24,217 . Landshut is still a quaint, picturesque place; it consists of an old and a new town and of four suburbs, one part of it lying on an island in the Isar . It contains a fine street, the Altstadt, and several interesting medieval buildings . Among its eleven churches the most note-worthy are those of St Martin, with a tower 432 ft. high, of St Jodocus, and of the Holy Ghost, or the Hospital church, all three begun before 1410 . The former Dominican convent, founded in 1271, once the seat of the university, is now used as public offices . The post-office, formerly the meeting-house of the Estates, a building adorned with old frescoes; the royal palace, which contains some very fine Renaissance work; and the town-hall, built in 1446 and restored in 1860, are also noteworthy . The town has monuments to the Bavarian king, Maximilian II., and to other famous men; it contains a botanical garden and a public park . On a hill overlooking Landshut is the castle of Trausnitz, called also Burg Landshut, formerly a stronghold of the dukes of Lower Bavaria, whose burial-place was at Seligenthal also near the town . The original building was erected early in the 13th century, but the chapel, the oldest part now existing, dates from the 14th century .

The upper part of the castle has been made habitable . The

industries of Landshut are not important; they include brewing, tanning and spinning, and the manufacture of tobacco and cloth . Market gardening and an extensive trade in grain are also carried on . Landshut was founded about 1204, and from 1255 to 1503 it was the principal residence of the dukes of Lower Bavaria and of their successors, the dukes of Bavaria-Landshut . During the Thirty Years' War it was captured several times by the Swedes and in the 18th century by the Austrians . In April 1809 Napoleon defeated the Austrians here arld the town was stormed by his troops . From 1800 to 1826 the university, formerly at Ingolstadt and now at Munich, was located at Lands-hut . Owing to the three helmets which form its arms the town is sometimes called " Dreihelm Stadt." See Staudenraus, Chronik der Stadt Landshut, (Landshut 1832); Wiesend, Topographische Geschichte von Landshut (Landshut, 1858) ; Rosenthal, Zur Rechtsgeschichte der Stddte Landshut and Straubing (Wurzberg, 1883) ; Kalcher, Fiuhrer durch Landshut (Landshut, 1887) ; Haack, Die gotische Architektur and Plastik der Stadt Lands-hut (Munich, 1894); and Geschichte der Stadt Landshut (Landshut, 1835) .