Hotel Restaurant am Paulusbogen

Ballooning in Bad Griesbach

by globetrott

Ballooning is my dream since a very long time already and one day I will go for sure ! A saw a bunch of at least 10 balloons flying over Passau, while I was there last time in summer 2004. a flight of 1,5-2 hours is about 170 Euros ( and you even get a reduction of 10% with the Passau-card) children pay just 95 Euros.
For more details - click on their webpage below !

Museum Moderner Kunst

by dustmon

The modern art Museum is located near the confluence of the 3 rivers in Passau on Braugasse and is worth a visit when in town. This June they have an exhibit on C.O.Paeffgen "Aus der Sammlung Groshaus" entitled "Krise" (crisis). Unusual and especially when you walk into one room, and an obvious portrait of Monica Lewinsky, sort of Warhol-ish staring back at you is straight across the room in a prominent spot. Yoko Ono has had a show here, and the manager told me a great story that The Empress "Sisi", Austria's Princess Di, once slept in this house now housing the Modern Art Museum, and Yoko really wanted to sleep in the bed that Sissy supposedly slept in, and did so the night after her show opened. There was also an exhibit called "Mothers, Women, and Witches" by Ernst Barlach and friends. It was 5 euros, children under 6 free.

Passauer Glasmuseum

by globetrott

The Passauer Glasmuseum is another famous highlight for all of you, beeing interested in ancient glass-production.
In Passau you may see the world's biggest collection of Bohemian Glass, with more than 30.000 exhibits. The museum is next to the old townhall, inside the same building as Hotel Wilder Mann. Exhibits are mainly of the time between 1680 and 1950, including baroque, Rokoko, Empire, Art Nouveau and modern designs.
Besides glass-products you may as well see the world's biggest collection of cooking-books !

The museum is open daily :
01.00p.m. - 05.00p.m.
5 Euros entrance-fee
or 3,50 Euros for passengers of Danube-ships by Wurm&Köck !!

Friedrich Dürrenmatt said about this museum :
This is the most beautiful Glasshouse in the world !!

The new residence of the bishop

by globetrott

The new residence of the bishop dates back to the year 1712 and is connected with the old residence and the cathedral.
Look at the great baroque facade - inside of that building you may see the treasury of the bishop in the "Domschatz- und Diözesanmuseum". You cannot enter that museum on Residenzplatz ( the square seen on my picture), BUT the entrance is inside the cathedral.

Passau, Bavaria, Germany

by chronusfree68

"Sunday, 11 June"

The train to Passau from Regensburg was an ICE (InterCity Express) train. It reputedly runs up to 300 km/h, and the first time to anything, including the ICE, is almost always filled with excitement.

I arrived in Passau by about 14:30, and had about 3 hours to tour the village, highly recommended by my German supervisor. The central town was a distance (about 1 kilometre) away from the train station, and a large square was under extensive construction, so that the traffic was inevitably a bit chaotic. But once I entered the town centre, everything regained its charm. Passau has a typical medieval core, like Regensburg or Munich. I don't think it is necessary to describe its cobbled streets, squares, and coffee shops in detail again. One thing, though, is that ice cream, at least when I visited, seemed to be quite popular in Passau. About one in ten passers-by was holding ice-cream, or something that resembled an ice-cream cone.

I entered many churches--there were extraordinarily many churches in Passau given its modest village size. But slowly I drifted towards the bank of the Danube River, and crossed a suspension bridge to the other side.

On the other side, it was possible to climb up some stairs (with great views of Passau), to reach a hilltop castle complex. I entered by its "back lane", so to speak, which was quite an evocative experience, since the walls, the turrets, and the trails were quite overgrown and seemed more authentic than some of the castles I have visited so far.

In the castle complex, there was a youth hostel, and further up, in the courtyard of the castle, a children's activity fair and a coffee shop. It was possible, at this point, to go even further up, until one reaches what seemed like the "Prospect Point" in Vancouver-- an excellent lookout over the red-roofed Passau and the Danube River. If one opts to climb up a tower, then a panaramic view of the castle complex--courtyard and entrance and all--sprung into sight.

Coming down from the castle, and crossing the suspension bridge, I continued to follow the Danube River downstream, until it converged with the Inn River and the Ilz River at the southernmost point of the town (indeed, the town was built like a peninsula, right by the Austrian border).

On my way back roughly along the Inn River, I made some further detours, exploring more churches, streets, and hidden courtyards. That was quite a lot for three hours, so I returned to the Passau train station quite tired. The only thing left now was just to sit back and watch the Bavarian landscape roll by as the train sped towards Munich ( transferring at Regensburg again).