Burghausen Castle

Burghausen Castle in Burghausen, Upper Bavaria, is the longest citadel complicated inside the global confirmed via the Guinness World Record agency. The fortress hill turned into settled as early as the Bronze Age. The fortress which changed into based before 1025 became transferred to the Wittelsbachs after the demise of the ultimate count number of Burghausen, Gebhard II, in 1168. In 1180 they had been appointed dukes of Bavaria and the castle turned into prolonged beneath Duke Otto I of Wittelsbach. With the primary partition of Bavaria in 1255, Burghausen Castle has become the second house of the dukes of Lower Bavaria, the primary residence being Landshut.

The paintings on the primary castle commenced in 1255 beneath Duke Henry XIII 1253 to 1290. In 1331 Burghausen and its castle exceeded to Otto IV, Duke of Lower Bavaria. Under the dukes of Bavaria-Landshut 1392 to 1503 the fortifications had been prolonged across the whole castle hill. Starting with Margarete of Austria, the deported spouse of the despotic Duke Henry XVI 1393 to 1450 the fort became the residence 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 citadel as Henry's prisoner.