Mühldorf

Mühldorf stands on the Inn, surrounded by Bavarian lands but long subject to the archbishops of Salzburg. In 1287 Rapoto Luchen handed the town and its castle to Archbishop Rudolf and received them back as a fief. Nearby in 1322, Ludwig of Bavaria defeated his Habsburg rival Frederick in a battle for the German crown. Before the fighting, the archbishop knighted several of Mühldorf's townsmen. The town remained under Salzburg until it passed to Bavaria in 1802.