View of Landshut from Carossahöhe

Beautiful view over Landshut, including Trausnitz Castle, St. Martin's Church and Jodoks Church.

It is thanks to the construction of a new beer cellar in 1823 that an interesting archaeological ensemble of finds was discovered. The later mayor of Landshut, Carl Lorber, personally lent a hand, recovered the finds and made a few notes about them. This led to the first Landshut archaeological publication published by today's Landshuter Zeitung. At that time, the author Anton von Braunmühl dated the finds as "Old German", but today they are classified as belonging to the Urnfield period (1,300 -800 BC).

Ceramic dishes, loom weights, bronze arrowheads, a sewing needle, fragmented molds - the context in which these objects come from is still controversial today. Were they grave goods from urn graves or did they come from a castle-like complex high up near the Carossahöhe? Finds from there are already known from the early Bronze Age (2,200 - 1,600 BC). A wall that can be traced back to this “castle” can still be seen in the area today. Otherwise it was well protected by the steep slopes of the Isarhangleite.

*From the existing sign from the city of Landshut.

Great view over Landshut