***I had been under the impression that the Muslims had not got farther than the gates of Vienna. ***
They did not. But the only reason was that the Catholic West threw everything it had against them. If Vienna were lost, so would also go the Balkans and southeast Europe including Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece maybe not, but certainly Slovakia and portions of Poland.
Once they had entrenched, who knows? Suleiman the Magnificent was a great general. Could he have grown the next generation of warrior to take the fight west? History will never know thanks to the last chance desperate stand at Vienna.
OK... little confusion between us. My Germanic ancestors (from what is now Sloveia and Austria) regarded as Bavaria the lands of the Alpine Germanic peoples, including the German state of Bavaria, Austria, and considerable lands in central Europe, as far wast as Slovenia. I’m guessing you’re thinking I’m referring to the modern German state of Bavaria? No, the Muslims did not enter Germany.