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Stage 12: Schrottenbaummühle - Passau

Starting point:       Scrap tree mill

Route:           24,7 km

Walking time:            7 hours

Slopes:      652m

Descents:         700m

Stage goal:     Passau Cathedral Square

Mark:

Ilztal hiking trail

Directions:

From the scrap tree mill on the right bank of the Ilz to Kalteneck, there over the bridge to the left bank. Continue along the Ilz to Fischhaus. There, switch to the right bank again. About Mausmühle to the Triftsperre. Change the bank again over the Triftsperre at the beginning of the Halser Ilzschleife. Over the height, past Rechenstein Castle to Hofbauerngut and there over the bridge to Hals. Continue along the Ilz until it flows into the Danube. Below the Veste Oberhaus over the Prinz-Luitpold-Brücke in the old town of Passau and there over the Holy Cross and St. Michael to the St. Stephan Cathedral.

The old town awaits the pilgrim with numerous baroque buildings - including St. Stephen's Cathedral with its characteristic onion domes. St. Stephen's Cathedral is the largest baroque cathedral north of the Alps and has the largest church organ in the world (17.974 pipes)!

The city is dominated in the north by the fortress Oberhaus and in the south by the pilgrimage church Maria Hilf. All of this belongs to the possession of the Diocese of Passau. This is located in the center of the old town with the beautiful Residenzplatz. The Cathedral Treasury and Diocesan Museum can be visited in the New Episcopal Residence. If you take the path to the pilgrimage church Maria Hilf via the pilgrimage stairs, you can, if you want, say a prayer on your knees at each of the 321 steps up from the city center. The Roman Museum "Boiotro" is located in the city center.

For more details on the three-river city of Passau (confluence of the Danube - Inn - Ilz), see the next stage: Open the route Passau to Linz here

Schrottenbaummühle - Kalteneck - Fischhaus - Mausmühle - Hofbauerngut - Hals - Passau