Freysing Freising, or Freisingen, a town of Bavaria, in the district of Upper Bavaria, on the Isar, 20 m. N. E. of Munich; pop. in 1871, 7,778. It has a theological faculty, a gymnasium, a normal school, and five churches. Near it is the former abbey of Weihenstephan, now a royal castle, and (since 1852) a normal agricultural establishment with a celebrated agricultural school. In 724 a bishopric was established at Freising, which on the reorganization of the Catholic church in Bavaria in 1802 was united with the new archbishopric of Munich, whose occupant bears the title of archbishop of Munich and Freising.