Theme Day: Reflections

It's July 1st and that means that ist theme day! July theme is reflections.
I took this one last month when there was a flooding in the city. I thought it would fit well for this theme day so I saved it for posting today.


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Emerenz Meier

This is a statue of Emerenz Meier who was a famous Lower Bavarian author.

In the background you see Danube and Veste Oberhaus.
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Ducks

with Danube in the background

Time for family

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The water is coming...

A few days ago, this was a street...

This morning I woke up with a little worried feeling. We had a LOT of nonstop rain the last few days and the three rivers in Passau got more water then they can handle. According to statistics I guess I should have water in front of my door until tonight but when I went to town today I saw that the situation is not that bad. I live directly next to Danube and this is the first flooding since I live here. Danube was about 8 meters deep today! For the next flooding I know I can stay cool because it would need to be about 10 meters deep until my feet get a little bit wet... :)

Colored houses

The first thing I mentioned about Passau when I was about to move here was the big number of colored houses. I haven't seen a city or town before that got so many houses in different colors.
This photo shows only a few of those houses, there are located along Danube bank.

Veste Niederhaus

Veste Niederhaus is a fortress just like Veste Oberhaus but it's located on the foot of the hill while Veste Oberhaus is located on the top as you can see in yesterdays post.
Unlike Oberhaus you can't visit Niederhaus because it's still privately owned.

Veste Oberhaus

Veste Oberhaus is a fortress in Passau. It's located on a hill which means you have a great visit when you stand there.
For more informations you can read the Wikipedia article about it.
I took the picture standing at the Danube banks in the old town.

Quack, quack!

You just can hear this sound everywhere along the banks of Danube because you always meet some of those little nice guys ;).

Take a deep look

into Danube. This is just what it looks like.

Well, and I'm FINALLY back after I got some trouble with my computer.

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Old woman

An old lady with her walking frame is sitting next to Danube and enjoying the sun. 

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The river of shiny waters?

Well, at least you could call it like this sometimes. When there is a lot of sunshine Danube is twinkling all the time.

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Passau Daily Photo is online!

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Well, some of you might know my old blog about the city of Saarbrücken.  I couldn't keep it up because I moved to Passau to go to university. So I decided to make a new blog so that I can explore the town with you together.

And what's best for the first blog entry? I thought a while and then I chose this photograph. You see the probably the most popular thing about Passau. 

The city is known as "Dreiflüssestadt" which means "city of three rivers" in English. On the photo you see the river Inn on the right entering the river Danube (also known as Donau). Somewhat down the river, the river Ilz is joining Danube also. 

When you stand on the peak of the city where I took this picture, you can greatly see the two different currents clash at each other.