FUSSEN, a town of Germany, in the Land of Bavaria, at the foot of the Alps (Tirol), on the Lech, 2,500 ft. above the sea. Pop. (1933) 6,721. Rope-making is an important industry. In the castle was signed in 1745 the peace between the elector Maxi milian III., Joseph of Bavaria and Maria Theresa. Two miles south-east. on the Austrian frontier, is the castle of Hohen schwangau, and a little to the north, that of Neuschwanstein, built by Louis II. of Bavaria.