Wittelsbacher Brunnen vor dem Dom in Passau. Photo by Willy Matheisl
Willy Matheisl, Passau (Latin: Batavia, Czech: Pasov) is a town in Niederbayern, Eastern Bavaria, Germany, known also as the Dreiflüssestadt (City of Three Rivers), because the Danube River is joined there by the Inn River from the South, and the Ilz River coming out of the Bavarian Forest to the North. Its population is 50,415, of whom about 10,000 are students at the local University of Passau. The university, founded in the late 1970s, is the extension of the (centuries old) Institute for Catholic Studies. It is renowned in Germany for its institutes of Economics, Law, Computer Sciences and Cultural Science. Wittelsbacher Brunnen (auch Wittelsbacherbrunnen) ist ein häufig verwendeter Name von Brunnenanlagen. Diese sind benannt nach dem Adelsgeschlecht Wittelsbach, aus dem mehrere Jahrhunderte lang die Herrscher Bayerns hervorgingen. Erbaut wurde der Brunnen 1903 zum Gedenken an die 100 jährige Zugehörigkeit der Stadt Passau zu Bayern. Seitdem schmückt der barocke Brunnen den Residenzplatz.
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