Burghausen Castle

Burghausen Castle in Burghausen, Upper Bavaria, is the longest fort complicated inside the world, showed by using the Guinness World Record company. The fortress hill changed into settled as early as the Bronze Age. The castle turned into transferred to the Wittelsbachs after the dying of the last remember of Burghausen, Gebhard II, in 1168. In 1180 they had been appointed dukes of Bavaria and the castle became prolonged underneath Duke Otto I of Wittelsbach.

With the first partition of Bavaria in 1255, Burghausen Castle became the second residence of the dukes of Lower Bavaria, the main house being Landshut. The work on the primary castle began in 1255 beneath Duke Henry XIII 1253 to 1290. In 1331 Burghausen and its fortress handed to Otto IV, Duke of Lower Bavaria. Under the dukes of Bavaria-Landshut 1392 to 1503, the fortifications were prolonged around the entire fortress hill. Starting with Margarete of Austria, the deported spouse of the despotic Duke Henry XVI 1393 to 1450,the citadel became the house of the Duke's consorts and widows, and additionally a stronghold for the ducal treasures. In 1447 Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria died in the fort as Henry's prisoner.