Bavaria
Passau
Passau grew where the Danube, Inn and Ilz meet, turning geography into trade, episcopal power and repeated disaster. This guide follows the three-river city through cathedral, fortress, convent, residence, town hall and pilgrimage hill to show how waterways shaped wealth, flood risk and political authority.
Stories in Passau
- St Stephen’s Cathedral — Baroque After the Fire
- Neue Residenz — The Prince-Bishops Move Downhill
- Old Town Hall — Citizens Beneath Episcopal Rule
- Niedernburg — A Convent and a Queen’s Tomb
- Dreiflüsseeck — Where Three Rivers Negotiate
- Veste Oberhaus — The Bishop’s Fortress Above the City
- St Michael — Jesuits and the Counter-Reformation
- Mariahilf — Pilgrimage Across the Inn