About Landshuter Zeitung

Landshuter Zeitung

The Landshuter Zeitung is the local daily newspaper of Landshut, the capital of Lower Bavaria, published in Landshut by the Jos. Thomann'sche Buchdruckerei Verlag der Landshuter Zeitung KG. Founded in 1849 as the niederbayerisches Heimatblatt für Stadt und Land, the paper appears Monday to Saturday as the daily of the Landshut region, with its local editions covering the surrounding districts. The publishing house at Altstadt 89 in Landshut employs 145 people, and the paper appears within the media group of the Straubinger Tagblatt, whose idowa.de portal is the digital home of the group's papers. The Landshuter Zeitung's app carries the main edition and its local papers: the Hallertauer Zeitung, the Moosburger Zeitung, the Rottenburger Anzeiger and the Vilsbiburger Zeitung.

Overview

The Landshuter Zeitung appears Monday to Saturday as the subscription daily for Landshut and the surrounding region. Founded in 1849, it is one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in Lower Bavaria, and its subtitle as the Lower Bavarian home paper for town and country reflects its regional ambition. The paper is sold mainly by subscription, and its publishing house and editorial office are at Altstadt 89 in the historic old town of Landshut. The paper's local editions extend its reach into the surrounding districts: the Hallertauer Zeitung for the hop-growing Hallertau, the Moosburger Zeitung for Moosburg, the Rottenburger Anzeiger for Rottenburg an der Laaber, and the Vilsbiburger Zeitung for Vilsbiburg.

The readership of the Landshuter Zeitung is the population of the Landshut region: the citizens of the Lower Bavarian capital with its Gothic old town and Trausnitz Castle, the employees of the region's industry and services, the commuters who work in Munich, the farmers of the Hallertau and the Isar valley, and the engaged citizens of the municipalities' councils, clubs and churches. The region's identity is shaped by the Isar river, by the Landshut Wedding festival, by the district's position between Munich and the Bavarian Forest, and by the Lower Bavarian character of the capital. The paper's local journalism is the medium in which this region's public life is conducted.

History

The Landshuter Zeitung was founded in 1849 as the niederbayerisches Heimatblatt für Stadt und Land, the Lower Bavarian home paper for town and country, published by the Thomann publishing house in Landshut. The Bavarian State Library's digitised holdings preserve the paper's nineteenth-century editions, including the 1864 volume printed by Thomann in Landshut. The paper chronicled the Landshut region's transformation from the Kingdom of Bavaria through the Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era and the post-war reconstruction, remaining the daily of the Lower Bavarian capital through all these epochs.

After the Second World War the paper re-established itself as the region's daily, and it developed the system of local editions that covers the surrounding districts. The publishing company, the Jos. Thomann'sche Buchdruckerei Verlag der Landshuter Zeitung KG, remains based at Altstadt 89 in Landshut, and the paper appears within the media group of the Straubinger Tagblatt, the 1860-founded daily of Straubing, whose idowa.de portal carries the Landshuter Zeitung's digital edition. The Landshuter Zeitung continues as the daily of the Lower Bavarian capital, its 1849 founding making it one of the oldest newspapers in Bavaria.

Coverage and Content

The Landshuter Zeitung covers the public life of the Landshut region with the thoroughness of a dedicated regional daily. The city council of Landshut and the municipal councils of the surrounding district communities form a core beat, as does the Landshut district administration and the government of Lower Bavaria, seated in Landshut. The paper reports on the region's industry and services, on the commuters to Munich, on the Hallertau hop-growing region, on agriculture in the Isar valley, and on the development of the capital's infrastructure. The courts, including the Landshut regional court, the police and the emergency services are covered as a matter of course.

A distinctive theme of the paper's reporting is the capital's cultural identity: the Landshut Wedding, the Gothic old town and Trausnitz Castle, the concerts and theatre, and the city's festivals. The paper follows the community life of the area: the volunteer fire services, the sports clubs and their leagues, including the EV Landshut ice hockey club, the churches and their congregations, and the cultural associations and traditional festivals. The regional, national and international news rounds out the daily. Family announcements, event listings and the classified and display advertising complete the paper.

The paper's local editions give each district its own local pages: the Hallertauer Zeitung covers the hop region, the Moosburger Zeitung the Moosburg area, the Rottenburger Anzeiger the Rottenburg area, and the Vilsbiburger Zeitung the Vilsbiburg area. The paper's cultural pages, produced by its Landshut culture desk, follow the capital's theatres, concerts and exhibitions. Like the classic regional daily, the Landshuter Zeitung reports on the schools and kindergartens, on the local clubs' anniversaries, and its readers' letters and service pages give the region's citizens a direct voice.

Organization and Ownership

The Landshuter Zeitung is published by the Jos. Thomann'sche Buchdruckerei Verlag der Landshuter Zeitung KG, based at Altstadt 89 in Landshut. The company employs 145 people at its Landshut site and operates in publishing and printing. The paper appears within the media group of the Straubinger Tagblatt, the Attenkofer publishing company of Straubing, whose idowa.de portal is the group's digital brand; the institution is listed as Landshuter Zeitung / Straubinger Tagblatt.

The group's structure combines the shared national and regional sections with the Landshuter Zeitung's own Landshut newsroom and its local editions' reporting. Financial details of the privately held company are not publicly disclosed beyond the company's registration data; the paper's economics rest on subscriptions, regional advertising and the digital revenues of the idowa.de portal and the paper's app.

Digital Presence

The Landshuter Zeitung appears digitally on idowa.de, the portal of the Straubinger Tagblatt media group, which carries the paper's local reporting for the Landshut region alongside the group's regional, national and international coverage. The portal is continuously updated with local news from Landshut and the surrounding districts, photo galleries and multimedia content, extending the daily's reporting to readers on desktop and mobile devices. The paper's own app, the Landshuter Zeitung app, brings the main edition and its local papers, the Hallertauer Zeitung, the Moosburger Zeitung, the Rottenburger Anzeiger and the Vilsbiburger Zeitung, to smartphones and tablets, with overnight loading of the latest issue, puzzles including Sudoku and crosswords, and an audio player with VoiceOver support.

As a subscription daily, much of the digital content is reserved for registered and paying readers, while selected local stories remain freely accessible. The app is offered with a free 14-day trial period, after which a subscription can be taken out, and single issues are available for purchase. The group's digital products include newsletters and breaking-news alerts for the region, and the paper's local journalism circulates through social media channels to readers who encounter the paper primarily on mobile devices. For the readers of the Landshut region, the digital Landshuter Zeitung is the online companion to the printed daily: the capital's news on the phone in the morning, the app on the tablet in the evening, and the idowa.de portal as the continuous news service for Lower Bavaria between editions.

The Landshuter Zeitung's digital edition preserves the printed paper's familiar structure while adding the possibilities of the mobile world: the e-paper's page-for-page reproduction for readers who want the newspaper as they know it, the app's audio player for listening to articles, and the portal's continuously updated news stream for readers who follow the region's events through the day. For the citizens of the Lower Bavarian capital, the digital Landshuter Zeitung is the daily in the pocket: Landshut's news on the phone at any hour, and the idowa.de portal as the continuous news service for the Isar city between editions.