Germany
Bavaria
Lower Bavaria

Passau

Passau is a city in , , close to the border. Nowadays, Passau is known for its historic buildings, its university, and its location at the three rivers, and for the last German train station before Austria.
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  • Type: Town with 54,400 residents
  • Description: town in Lower Bavaria, Germany
  • Also known as: “Dreiflüssestadt”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Stephen’s Cathedral and Passau Hauptbahnhof.

Church
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St. Stephen's Cathedral is a baroque church from 1688 in Passau, , dedicated to Saint Stephen. It is the seat of the Catholic Bishop of Passau and the main church of his diocese.

Railway station
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is the main railway station at Passau in , . Built in 1860, it has eight platforms, of which three are bay platforms and three are through tracks. The ca. 130 m long station building is built in the classic style.

Theater building
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is a theatre in Passau, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Witzmannsberg and Hals.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of in in . is situated 6 km northeast of Passau.

Suburb
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is a quarter in the northern part of Passau, whose geography is strongly influenced by the river .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Passau

Latitude
48.5748° or 48° 34′ 29″ north
Longitude
13.461° or 13° 27′ 40″ east
Population
54,400
Elevation
366 metres (1,201 feet)
IATA airport code
ZPF
United Nations Location Code
DE PAS
Open location code
8FWMHFF6+W9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240057351
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2855328
Wiki­data ID
Q4190
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Passau” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Passau”
  • Amharic: “ፓሣው”
  • Arabic: “باساو”
  • Arabic: “باسو”
  • Aragonese: “Passau”
  • Armenian: “Պասաու”
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  • Asturian: “Passau”
  • Basque: “Passau”
  • Bavarian: “Båssa, St”
  • Bavarian: “Båssa”
  • Bavarian: “Draiaflissstod”
  • Belarusian: “Пасау”
  • Belarusian: “Пасаў”
  • Breton: “Passau”
  • Bulgarian: “Пасау”
  • Catalan: “Passau”
  • Cebuano: “Passau”
  • Chinese: “帕紹”
  • Chinese: “帕绍”
  • Corsican: “Passau”
  • Croatian: “Passau”
  • Czech: “Pasov”
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  • Finnish: “Passau”
  • French: “Passau”
  • Friulian: “Passau”
  • Galician: “Passau”
  • Georgian: “პასაუ”
  • German: “Dreiflüssestadt”
  • German: “Passau, St”
  • German: “Passau”
  • Greek: “Πάσσαου”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Passau”
  • Hebrew: “פסאו”
  • Hungarian: “Passau”
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  • Irish: “Passau”
  • Italian: “Passavia”
  • Japanese: “パッサウ”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಸೌ”
  • Kazakh: “Пассау”
  • Kirghiz: “Пассау”
  • Kongo: “Passau”
  • Korean: “파사우”
  • Kotava: “Passau”
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  • Ladin: “Passau”
  • Latin: “Batavia Bavariae”
  • Latin: “Batavia”
  • Latvian: “Pasava”
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  • Limburgan: “Passau”
  • Literary Chinese: “帕绍”
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  • Low German: “Passau”
  • Luxembourgish: “Passau”
  • Macedonian: “Драјфлисештат”
  • Macedonian: “Пасау”
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  • Occitan (post 1500): “Passau”
  • Ossetian: “Пассау”
  • Persian: “پاسائو”
  • Persian: “پاساو”
  • Picard: “Passau”
  • Piemontese: “Passau”
  • Polish: “Pasawa”
  • Portuguese: “Passau”
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  • Russian: “Пассау”
  • Sardinian: “Passau”
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  • Serbian: “Passau”
  • Serbian: “Пасау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Passau”
  • Sicilian: “Passau”
  • Silesian: “Passau”
  • Slovak: “Pasov”
  • Slovak: “Passau”
  • Slovenian: “Dreiflüssestadt”
  • Slovenian: “Passau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پاساو”
  • Spanish: “Passau”
  • Swahili: “Passau”
  • Swedish: “Passau”
  • Swiss German: “Passau”
  • Tatar: “Пассау”
  • Thai: “พัสเซา”
  • Thai: “พาสเซา”
  • Tumbuka: “Passau”
  • Turkish: “Dreiflüssestadt”
  • Turkish: “Passau”
  • Turkmen: “Passau”
  • Ukrainian: “Пассау”
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  • Venetian: “Pasavia”
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  • Western Frisian: “Passau”
  • Western Panjabi: “پساؤ”
  • Wolof: “Passau”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕绍”
  • Yue Chinese: “帕紹”
  • Zulu: “Passau”
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