Over Easter (April 2018) we spent a couple of days in Passau. It is a beautiful Baroque city.
Three rivers meet there. The Danube is the one seen in this photo. The Inn is the one on the far side of the church in the upper left-hand corner of this photo. It is the largest of the three rivers. The third is the Ilz (pronounced Ilts), which is below the bottom of the photo (not visible).
The architecture in Passau is mostly baroque, because of a fire in 1662 that destroyed almost everything. That devastation resulted in a uniformity of architecture that is rare today.
Passau was ruled by a prince-bishop, who ruled from a castle overlooking the city from a hill between the Danube and the Ilz. The castle was gradually expanded into a palace, which is the structure in yellow light is this photo. One of most interesting rooms is the chapel, which is covered by old gothic paintings.
Of course, every bishop, especially a prince-bishop, needs a cathedral. The cathedral in Passau was rebuilt after the fire of 1662, and it is today a beautiful baroque church. (The outside is seen in on the left side of the first photo above.) It has the largest pipe organ in Europe. There are 17,974 pipes, but only a few are visible.
The architecture in Passau is mostly baroque, because of a fire in 1662 that destroyed almost everything. That devastation resulted in a uniformity of architecture that is rare today.
Passau was ruled by a prince-bishop, who ruled from a castle overlooking the city from a hill between the Danube and the Ilz. The castle was gradually expanded into a palace, which is the structure in yellow light is this photo. One of most interesting rooms is the chapel, which is covered by old gothic paintings.
Of course, every bishop, especially a prince-bishop, needs a cathedral. The cathedral in Passau was rebuilt after the fire of 1662, and it is today a beautiful baroque church. (The outside is seen in on the left side of the first photo above.) It has the largest pipe organ in Europe. There are 17,974 pipes, but only a few are visible.
