a town of Lower Bavaria, on the Isar, 39 miles N.E. from Munich. The staple of its commerce is corn, cattle, and wool. Besides numerous mills, distilleries, and breweries, it has manufactures of woollen cloth, leather, starch, tobacco, paper, hosiery, cards, copper-ware, and surgical instruments. Though now on the decline, Landshut was once of great importance. The Castle of Trausnitz, on a hill overlooking the town, was for three years the prison of Frederick of Austria, and during the thirteenth century the residence of the dukes of Bavaria. The removal of the University of Ingolstadt thither, in 1800, gave the town a fresh importance; but its withdrawal to Munich, in 1826, hastened its decline. Pop. 9800.