New Castle (Ingolstadt)

The New Castle in Ingolstadt is one of the most important Gothic secular buildings of the 15th Century in Bavaria.

As a brother of the French queen Isabeau, Ludwig spent more than ten years in France.

After returning to his home city of Ingolstadt, he could draw on abundant finances and in 1418 gave the order to build the new castle following French models.

The present structure was built largely on the old foundation until 1489 under the Landshut dukes, as evidenced by the surviving detailed invoices.

[1] In the 1960s, it was re-established by Ministerial decree and the Bavarian Army Museum was opened in 1972, including workshops and restaurants.