"Passau where the River Inn meets the... " a Passau Travel Page by dabidc

The river Danube or Donau rises in S.W Germany and flows east on its way to the Black Sea. One of the tributaries is the Inn, which rises in Switzerland as the Enn and flows into Austria near Landeck, in turn it enters Germany near Rosenheim.

The photo shows the Danube on the left looking brown compared to the lighter colour of the Inn.

The older section of Passau is built on a narrow section of land between the two rivers. Over the years there have been many times when the buildings were flooded.

There is a pleasant river walk along the Inn and the Danube, an excellent place on a warm day to watch the commerce on the river.

The view downstream is one of wooded hills and shows no buldings, but the view is of the very western part of Austria that is on the Danube.

The Rathaus complex is close to the Danube and on one wall of the building the levels of previous floods and the year the flood occurred, have been marked.

I do not recall which years had the highest water levels nor the actual depth of the water. Suffice it to say that the height of the people shown could be just under 2 m, or the top of the arch be 5 m from the ground. Then it may be the greatest depth was possibly 7 m above the present river level. The depth guage does not account for the flood s since 1997. I believe there was a major flood in the last 3 or 4 years.