Photo: Rathaus St Georges Church Marienplatz Freising Bavaria Germany

Freising is a town in Germany, in the Bavaria and it is located just north of the larger city of Munich. The city has two famous hills located in it that are very easy to spot from a distance and help to identify the town.

Freising is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and is a popular tourist destination due to its close location to Munich and its historic architecture. It has two famous hills that help to identify the town, these hills can be seen from Munich airport; the cathedral hill has Bishop's Castle and Freising's Cathedral sitting occupying the top of it, and the world's oldest brewery sits atop Weihenstephan Hill.

The town of Freising has some interesting historical significance for people interested in the historical period of the Middle Ages. It is the oldest settlement in the whole of Bavaria, and in the Middle Ages it actually became one of the major religious centres for people to flock to and congregate in in the whole of Europe. It still is an important religious centre, and this has been researched by historians who have found manuscripts from the area dating from 900 to 1200 AD. ... continue below the picture...

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Some historians say that this area was settled in the Bronze Age, but there is very little evidence to support this. There was small pockets of settlements in the area as early as the Bronze Age, but not a continuous settlement. Today visitors visit Freising to see the history and architecture and experience a slice of German life in a smaller city to Munich.

The Rathaus (town hall) and St George's Church in the Marienplatz in downtown Freising, Germany, Bavaria, Europe, Europe 2006.