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Kreisfreie Stadt Landshut

Landshut

Landshut is the capital and the biggest city of in the federal state of . The city is best known for the Landshut Wedding, a quadrennial re-enactment of the actual medieval wedding, including knights' tournaments.
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  • Type: Town with 72,400 residents
  • Description: town in Bavaria, Germany
  • Postal code: 84034

Places of Interest

Highlights include Trausnitz Castle and St. Martin’s Church.

Castle
Photo: Bertl 85, CC BY 3.0.
is a medieval castle situated in Landshut, in Germany. It was the home of the Wittelsbach dynasty, and it served as their ducal residence for from 1255–1503, and later as the seat of the hereditary rulers of the whole of Bavaria.

Church
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The Church of St. Martin is a medieval church in Landshut, . St. Martin's Church, along with and the celebration of the Landshuter Hochzeit, are the most important landmarks and historical events of Landshut.

Town hall
Photo: Hienstorfer, CC BY 2.5.
is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kumhausen and Achdorf.

Village
Photo: Konrad Lackerbeck, Public domain.
is a municipality in the district of in in .

Suburb
Photo: Helmlechner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
Photo: Gliwi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Landshut.

Landshut

Latitude
48.5362° or 48° 32′ 10″ north
Longitude
12.1517° or 12° 9′ 6″ east
Population
72,400
Elevation
488 metres (1,601 feet)
Inception
1204
IATA airport code
QLG
United Nations Location Code
DE LDH
Open location code
8FWJG5P2+FM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240053773
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2881485
Wiki­data ID
Q3974
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Landshut” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Landshut”
  • Arabic: “لاندسهوت”
  • Aragonese: “Landshut”
  • Armenian: “Լանդսհուտ”
  • Arpitan: “Landshut”
  • Asturian: “Landshut”
  • Azerbaijani: “Landshut”
  • Azerbaijani: “Landsxut”
  • Balinese: “Landshut”
  • Basque: “Landshut”
  • Bavarian: “Landsad”
  • Bavarian: “Landshuad”
  • Belarusian: “Ландсгут”
  • Belarusian: “Ландсхут”
  • Belarusian: “Ляндсгут”
  • Bosnian: “Landshut”
  • Breton: “Landshut”
  • Bulgarian: “Ландсхут”
  • Catalan: “Landshut”
  • Cebuano: “Landshut (kapital sa distrito nga gobyerno)”
  • Cebuano: “Landshut”
  • Chinese: “兰茨胡特”
  • Chinese: “蘭休特”
  • Chinese: “蘭斯胡特”
  • Chuvash: “Ландсхут”
  • Corsican: “Landshut”
  • Croatian: “Landshut”
  • Czech: “Landshut”
  • Danish: “Landshut”
  • Dutch: “Landshut”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لاندسهوت”
  • Esperanto: “Landshut”
  • Estonian: “Landshut”
  • Finnish: “Landshut”
  • French: “Landshut”
  • Friulian: “Landshut”
  • Galician: “Landshut”
  • Georgian: “ლანდსჰუტი”
  • German: “Landshut, St”
  • German: “Landshut”
  • Greek: “Λάντσχουτ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Landshut”
  • Hebrew: “לנדסהוט”
  • Hungarian: “Landshut”
  • Icelandic: “Landshut”
  • Ido: “Landshut”
  • Indonesian: “Landshut”
  • Interlingua: “Landshut”
  • Interlingue: “Landshut”
  • Irish: “Landshut”
  • Italian: “Landshut”
  • Japanese: “ランツフート”
  • Kirghiz: “Ландсхут”
  • Kongo: “Landshut”
  • Korean: “란츠후트”
  • Kurdish: “Landshut”
  • Ladin: “Landshut”
  • Latin: “Landishuta”
  • Latvian: “Landshūte”
  • Ligurian: “Landshut”
  • Limburgan: “Landshut”
  • Lithuanian: “Landshutas”
  • Lombard: “Landshut”
  • Low German: “Landshut”
  • Luxembourgish: “Landshut”
  • Macedonian: “Ландсхут”
  • Malagasy: “Landshut”
  • Malay: “Landshut”
  • Minangkabau: “Landshut”
  • Narom: “Landshut”
  • Neapolitan: “Landshut”
  • Northern Frisian: “Landshut”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Landshut”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Landshut”
  • Norwegian: “Landshut”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Landshut”
  • Ossetian: “Ландсхут”
  • Persian: “لاندسهوت”
  • Persian: “لندشوت”
  • Picard: “Landshut”
  • Piemontese: “Landshut”
  • Polish: “Landshut”
  • Portuguese: “Landshut”
  • Romanian: “Landshut”
  • Romansh: “Landshut”
  • Russian: “Ландсхут”
  • Sardinian: “Landshut”
  • Scots: “Landshut”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Landshut”
  • Serbian: “Landshut”
  • Serbian: “Ландсхут”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Landshut”
  • Sicilian: “Landshut”
  • Silesian: “Landshut”
  • Slovak: “Landshut”
  • Slovenian: “Landshut”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لاندسهوت”
  • Spanish: “Landshut”
  • Swahili: “Landshut”
  • Swedish: “Landshut”
  • Swiss German: “Landshut”
  • Tatar: “Ландсһут”
  • Thai: “ลันด์สฮูท”
  • Thai: “ลันทซ์ฮูท”
  • Tumbuka: “Landshut”
  • Turkish: “Landshut, St”
  • Turkish: “Landshut”
  • Ukrainian: “Ландсгут”
  • Uzbek: “Landshut”
  • Venetian: “Landshut”
  • Vietnamese: “Landshut”
  • Vlaams: “Landshut”
  • Volapük: “Landshut”
  • Walloon: “Landshut”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Landshut”
  • Welsh: “Landshut”
  • Wolof: “Landshut”
  • Wu Chinese: “兰茨胡特”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘭斯胡特”
  • Zulu: “Landshut”

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