The Ortsspitze is a small park on the japanese finish of Passau in Decrease Bavaria. At its tip lies the Dreiflüsseeck, the place Passau's three rivers–Inn, Ilz, and Danube–conjoin. For the subsequent twenty kilometers, the Danube straddles the German-Austrian border earlier than it turns into a very Austrian river at Engelhartszell.
The rivers' personalities are obvious from each the bottom and from the lookout factors on surrounding hills. The inky Ilz, “the black pearl of the Bavarian Forest,” slinks slowly by means of the peat and spruce forests of the Bavarian Forest. The blue (or generally brown) Danube, which begins 600 kilometers west in Donaueschingen within the Black Forest, ambles with out haste. The grayish-green Inn, which rises within the Swiss Alps, rushes with urgency by means of Austria and Bavaria earlier than plowing into the Danube from the south. From above, notably in summer season when snowmelt is highest, the Inn seems to swallow each rivers complete. After the Dreiflüsseeck, the Danube's colour extra resembles the Inn than it had earlier than Passau.
The Dreiflüsseck can also be a wonderful vacationer attraction in its personal proper. Youngsters can play on the playground or comply with the 1:1 billion-scale “Planetenweg” — a 1:1 billion scale mannequin of the photo voltaic system which begins on the Ortsspitze and stretches 4.8 kilometers alongside the Inn. Historical past buffs also can look to the south throughout the Inn towards see Mariahilf Abbey (the place Mozart as soon as worshipped or the place Austrian Kaiser Leopold absconded to hope for victory over the Turks in 1683) or the north to Veste Oberhaus, as soon as the stronghold of Passau's ruling prince bishops. On the tip of the Ortsspitze's tongue lies an anchor, a monument to the victims of the Danube, which was positioned in 1971. In the back of the park stand remnants of Passau's medieval metropolis wall, which started building in 1250. The seen portion is from the sixteenth century.
