The Danube, Inn and Ilz all come together here in this nice little area. In fact, the Inn is a bit bigger than the Danube at this point, which means the combined river probably should have been called the Ilz. That's the way it has worked historically. But would you dance to the Blue Inn? I don't think so.
This is basically a college town, as the University of Passau has about 12,000 students (total population of the city: 50,000). Most of the place burned down in 1662, and was supposedly rebuilt in the popular Baroque style of the time.
Walk these streets, and you walk the same spots that Adolph Hitler did. He and his family lived here from 1892 to 1894, and he came back a few times for speeches in the 1920s.
The border with Austria is right down the street from Passau. That has turned this area into something of an entry point for immigrants. Passau has been busy trying to come with them, who often simply walk from Austria in order to enter Germany.
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