FUSSEN

city, Bavaria Land (state), extreme southern Germany. It lies along the Lech River, at the east foot of the Allgu Alps, near the Austrian border. The site of a Roman frontier station, the city developed around the Benedictine abbey of St. Magnus (founded 628) and was chartered about 1294. A treaty concluded there in 1745 led to the withdrawal of Bavaria from the War of the Austrian Succession. The small sulfur spa of Faulenbach was incorporated with Fssen in 1921. St. Magnus abbey and church, in their present form, date from 1701 to 1917, although the church has a Romanesque crypt. Other notable landmarks include Hohes Castle (12701505; the former summer residence of the prince-bishops of Augsburg) and several Baroque churches. The turreted castles of Hohenschwangau, high above the Schwansee (Swan Lake), and Neuschwanstein, overlooking Pllat Gorge, are nearby. A tourist resort, winter sports centre, and customs station, Fssen manufactures clothing and cordage. Pop. (1994 est.) 13,954.