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27-459: The company received a royal concession on 18 February 1865 to build a line operated by standard gauge locomotives for passenger and goods services between Plattling Ostbahn station and Fischerdorf on the right bank of the Danube opposite Deggendorf . Early plans to operate a horse-drawn wagonway were dropped, but they then had to accept that the end of the line would be on the right bank, because

54-450: A newsagent. Plattling station today is the central transport hub in the eastern part of Lower Bavaria . Trains from all four directions meet shortly before the hour every hour. Regionalbahn trains run hourly to Regensburg and Zwiesel. There is an alternating two-hourly service between the two Regionalbahn routes: Passau–Plattling und Plattling–Munich, and a Regional-Express through train, Passau–Plattling–Munich, so that an hourly service

81-661: Is ice hockey team EV Landshut , playing currently in the Second Division . The other professional team in the city is motorcycle speedway team Landshut Devils , who are based at the Ellermühle Speedway Stadium . The local association football team is SpVgg Landshut with both men's and women's teams previously having reached the top state division . There are also two nuclear power plants located 14 km away from Landshut, Isar I (Inactive) and Isar II (active until 2022). Landshut

108-652: Is achieved here too. This should be further improved in December 2009 to an hourly RE through train. Landshut Landshut ( German: [ˈlantshuːt] ; Bavarian : Landshuad ) is a town in Bavaria in the south-east of Germany . Situated on the banks of the River Isar , Landshut is the capital of Lower Bavaria , one of the seven administrative regions of the Free State of Bavaria. It

135-482: Is also the seat of the surrounding district and has a population of more than 75,000. Landshut is the largest city in Lower Bavaria, followed by Passau and Straubing , and Eastern Bavaria's second after Regensburg . Owing to its characteristic coat of arms, the town is also called "City of the three Helmets" ( German : Dreihelmestadt ). The town is popularly known for is picturesque gothic old town and

162-511: Is strongly industrialized (e.g. BMW , ebm-papst , Schott electronics ), has Eastern Bavaria's lowest unemployment rate and is among the richest towns in Bavaria. Landshut lies in the Alpine foothills . The River Isar runs through the city and splits in two in the city centre. Most of the built-up area lies on the flat terraced deposits of the river. The Isar divides the town into three areas:

189-701: The Deggendorf had hauled shuttle services between Geiselhöring and Sünching on the Regensburg–Passau railway ; the Bayerwald had been diverted to the line from Miltenberg to Amorbach . On the construction of the Bavarian Forest railway from Plattling via Deggendorf and Zwiesel to Bayerisch Eisenstein in 1873, the roadbed of the Deggendorf–Plattling line could not be used, because

216-615: The Landshut Wedding , a full-tilt medieval festival. The cityscape is dominated by the St. Martin's Basilica and Trausnitz Castle high above the old town. Due to its proximity and easy access to Munich and the Franz Josef Strauss International Airport , Landshut became a powerful and future-oriented investment area and has seen a strong increase in population in the last 20 years. The town

243-690: The Royal Bavarian State Railways which had taken over the Ostbahn on 15 May 1875. Plattling station Plattling station is a central railway hub in eastern Lower Bavaria in southern Germany . The first station building for Plattling station was erected near the town and the station was opened on 20 September 1860 as the Bavarian Eastern Railway Company 's eastern route between Straubing and Passau went into service. From 1866 to 1877

270-715: The University of Ingolstadt was moved to Landshut in 1800. However, in 1826 the university was transferred to Munich. During the Thirty Years' War , the city was thrice (1632, 1634 and 1648) taken and plundered by Swedish forces. Napoleon fought and won the Battle of Landshut in 1809 against an Austrian army as part of the War of the Fifth Coalition . During World War II , a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp

297-657: The 1475 marriage of George of Bavaria and Jadwiga Jagiellon . The Renaissance era produced in particular the decorated inner courtyard of the Trausnitz Castle and the ducal Landshut Residence in the inner town. Baroque churches are represented by the Jesuit church St. Ignatius , the Dominican church St. Blasius and the church St. Joseph . Also, the medieval churches of the Seligenthal convent and of

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324-634: The Cistercians were redesigned in baroque style. Many old middle-class houses of the past in the Old Town still represent the history of the town from the Gothic times to the Neo-Classicism. There are regular regional train connections to Munich, Prague , Regensburg , Munich Airport , Passau , Salzburg , Rosenheim , Nuremberg and Hof . The most successful professional team in the city

351-532: The bridge over the Danube, built in 1859, was too weak to take locomotives. The line ran from the station at Plattling , opened in 1860 by the Bavarian Eastern Railway Company ( AG der Bayerischen Ostbahnen ) without any large structures, as far as the Danube landing place opposite Deggendorf and had a length of 8,695 m. It was opened on 8 March 1866; operations having already started on 1 March. In 1867 four pairs of trains ran daily between 6 am and 10 pm. Although

378-675: The capital of Lower Bavaria. Duke Henry XVI was the first of the three 'rich dukes' who ruled Bayern-Landshut in the 15th century. The wedding of Duke George with the Polish Princess Royal Jadwiga Jagiellon in 1475 was celebrated in Landshut with one of the most splendid festivals of the Middle Ages ( Landshut Wedding ). After his death and the Landshut War of Succession , Bavaria-Landshut

405-483: The city area at a height of 505 meters above sea level. Landshut is situated between Munich (70 kilometers southwest) and Regensburg (70 kilometers to the north). Other nearby towns are Straubing (75 km northeast), Deggendorf (75 km to the east), and Passau at the German-Austrian border (120 km to the east). The town's spread is limited to the north by Ergolding , to the northwest by Altdorf , and to

432-564: The electrification of the main line from Regensburg to Passau in May 1959 and the general changeover of motive power in the DB, the Bahnbetriebswerk at Plattling soon lost its function in maintaining steam locomotives . The last train hauled by a steam locomotive ran on 6 March 1974 from Plattling into the Bavarian Forest . The roundhouse and turntable were dismantled. As a memorial of

459-454: The firm of Joseph Anton von Maffei of Munich, with an axle base of only 1.835 m. They were given the names Deggendorf (Maffei 1866/575) and Bayerischer Wald (Maffei 1866/576) and needed 24 minutes to complete the journey. The engines were given numbers D 13 and D 14 by the Ostbahn . The Royal Bavarian State Railways incorporated them into Class D with numbers 1176 and 1177. They were retired in December and October 1895. Previous to that,

486-503: The goods line operated by the Deggendorf-Plattling Railway company ended at goods yard at the western end of the station. When the Bavarian Forest railway was built via Zwiesel to Bayerisch Eisenstein in 1874 the passenger station was moved westwards to accommodate the junction with this route and was built at the same height as the goods station in its present-day location. On 15 October 1875, Plattling

513-666: The historic town centre, especially Trausnitz Castle and the Church of Saint Martin featuring the world's tallest church brick tower. Among other Gothic architecture are the churches of St. Jodok and Holy Spirit, but also the Town Hall and the Ländtor , the only still existing gate of the medieval fortification. Landshut is known for a festival celebrated every four years called the Landshuter Hochzeit , commemorating

540-522: The line was able to pay a dividend of 6% in the early years, they let the Ostbahn take over operations on 10 August 1867. On 6 September 1872 a contract was signed transferring the Deggendorf–Plattling Railway in entirety to the Ostbahn for a purchase price of 273,000 gulden. The company owned two locomotives, four passenger coaches, a mail van and several goods wagons . The light locomotives were 0-4-0 inside frame engines built by

567-462: The new railway line had to be laid northwest of the old route due to the steep inclines near the edge of the Bavarian Forest and this required a higher station at Deggendorf. In addition the Ostbahn moved the station at Plattling some several hundred metres further west. As a result, the Deggendorf–Plattling Railway ceased running services on 16 September 1877 on the opening of the Forest railway by

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594-685: The northern part above the river belongs to the Isar-Danube hill country, the Mühleninsel in the city centre lies between both arms of the Isar, and the southern part below the river belongs to the Isar-Inn hill country. The southern part of the town is delimited by a chain of hills, some of which rise steeply, of which the Hofberg, where the Trausnitz Castle is located, forms the highest point in

621-406: The south by Kumhausen . The three smaller towns join Landshut to form a built-up area of around 100,000 people but are not incorporated into Landshut proper. The town and Trausnitz Castle were founded in 1204 by Duke Louis I , when a settlement developed around the castle. Landshut was a Wittelsbach residence by 1231, and in 1255, when the duchy of Bavaria was split in two, Landshut also became

648-403: The steam era, railway fans have put a DRG Class 64 steam engine on display in the station yard. In the night of 2–3 June 2008 the 4,000 m (43,000 sq ft) historic locomotive shed burned down to its foundation walls, having served at the time as a warehouse for a paper factory. Seven tracks are used for passenger services. In the station building is a ticket machine, a cafe and

675-531: Was given another junction, this time to the south via Pilsting to Mühldorf (the Mühldorf–Pilsting railway ), which was expanded in 1880 by a branch to Landshut . On 16 April 1945 the entire station was destroyed in a bombing raid that lasted just seven minutes. The station building which was fully demolished during this attack was rebuilt again after the Second World War on the same spot. With

702-458: Was located in the city to provide slave labour for local industry. The city was taken by US troops on April 29, 1945. The U.S. Army maintained facilities in Landshut, including Pinder Kaserne and a dependent housing area, until 1968. Since the opening of Munich Airport close to Landshut in 1992, the town has become an attractive business location. The town is of architectural importance because of its predominantly Gothic architecture within

729-669: Was reunited with Bavaria-Munich . Between 1537 and 1543, after his visit to Italy, Louis X, Duke of Bavaria built the Landshut Residence, the first Renaissance palace constructed north of the Alps. It was modeled after Palazzo Te in Mantua . William V, Duke of Bavaria ordered to upgrade Trausnitz Castle from a gothic fortification into a Renaissance complex when he lived in Landshut as crown prince for ten years until 1579. Afterwards, Landshut lost most of its importance until

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