<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Until now, reliable chronological classifications based on numerical ages for many Pleistocene fluvial deposits in the Alpine Foreland were rare. In this study, new numeric data (ESR, OSL, <span class="inline-formula">¹⁴C</span>) from Middle and Upper (Late) Pleistocene <i>Hochterrassen</i> (high terraces) and <i>Übergangsterrassen</i> (transitional terraces) in the Bavarian Alpine Foreland are presented. The dating results imply that the

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... </i> gravel sensu stricto were deposited during the penultimate glacial (MIS 6, Rissian), and that underlying older gravel accumulation are predominantly of penultimate interglacial (MIS 7, Riss–Riss interglacial) age. In some areas of the <i>Hochterrassen</i> in the Danube valley south of Regensburg (interglacial <i>Hartinger Schichten</i>, Harting layers), and in some areas of the <i>Rainer Hochterrasse</i> (basal gravel unit I), <i>Hochterrassen</i> gravels are underlain by much older interglacial gravel deposits. These interglacial basal gravel deposits illustrate that the downcutting of these valleys far away from areas of Pleistocene foreland glaciations happened predominantly during warm-temperate interglacial or late-glacial periods. One last interglacial (MIS 5e, Riss–Würm interglacial) <i>Hochterrasse</i> is morphologically preserved in the Isar valley. This <i>Jüngere Moosburger Hochterrasse</i> is composed of the <i>Fagotienschotter</i> (Fagotia gravel, named after the gastropod <i>Fagotia acicularis</i>). The next younger terraces are the Early to Middle Würmian (MIS 5d to MIS 3?) <i>Übergangsterrassen</i> (transitional terraces), whereas the younger one of the two <i>Übergangsterrassen</i> was formed most probably during the Middle Würmian (MIS 3).</p>