Every design for Passau

Passau is known as the City of Three Rivers: here the Danube is joined by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north. The old town stretches along a long peninsula between the Danube and the Inn, right on the Austrian border, with the Bavarian Forest tailing off to the north and gently rolling country to the south.

Ask people what they remember and many mention the fog. Where the two big rivers meet, mist gathers over the low ground, and the Dom St. Stephan and the Veste Oberhaus drift in and out of view. Others think of an Indian summer late in the year, the Severinstor, or a Roman past that still shows at the RömerMuseum Kastell Boiotro.

If you grew up here, or spent your student years at the university, this map traces the meeting of the waters you saw every single day.