Travex: Upper Bavaria

Upper Bavaria Germany

Upper Bavaria is one of the seven administrative districts of Bavaria, Germany. The duchy of Upper Bavaria was first created with the First Bavarian partition in 1255 under Duke Louis II, but there was no exact correlation between this duchy and the current territory. After reunification in 1340, Bavaria was divided again in 1349, and in 1392 the duchies of Bavaria-Munich and Bavaria-Ingolstadt were created in Upper Bavaria. In 1505, Bavaria was permanently reunited. For administrative purposes, Bavaria was split into Rentämter (plural of Rentamt). Upper Bavaria consisted of the Rentamt Munich and Rentamt Burghausen. After the founding of the Kingdom of Bavaria, the state was completely reorganised and, in 1808, divided into 15 administrative districts (Regierungsbezirke), in Bavaria called Kreise (singular Kreis). They were created in the fashion of the French départements, fairly even in size and population, and named after their main rivers. In the following years, due to territorial changes (for example, the loss of Tyrol and the addition of the Palatinate), the number of districts was reduced to eight. One of these was the Isarkreis (Isar District). In 1837, King Ludwig I of Bavaria renamed the Kreise after historical names and tribes. This also involved border changes or territorial swaps. Thus, the Isarkreis became Upper Bavaria. Instead of a Rentamt-style, purely administrative unit, the newly created districts became predecessors of modern regional self-government, forming a political and administrative link between the Bavarian state as a whole and the local authorities.

Recommended airport

Franz Josef Strauss München (MUC)

Nearby destinations

Upper Bavaria, Germany

Upper Bavaria Germany