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Related: About this forumPassau photos
Here are some pictures of Passau. It ia located at the confluence of the Danube (Danau), Inn, and Ilz. I does get some flooding historically. The last big one was 2013. !0 meters above normal.
The Rathaus

Dom Towers

The confluence of the Danau, left, and Inn, right


Might have been a mill.






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Old Crank
11 hrs ago
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Real nice selection Old Crank. Especially the cyclist in motion and red flowers' shadows.
George McGovern
9 hrs ago
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brer cat
(27,719 posts)1. These are lovely photos. I appreciate your tours of plaves
I will never see in person.
2naSalit
(104,093 posts)2. Places I'd love to see!
George McGovern
(13,124 posts)3. Real nice selection Old Crank. Especially the cyclist in motion and red flowers' shadows.
eppur_se_muova
(42,680 posts)4. Could that 'mill' have been a customs house ?
If there's a similar building on the other side of the river, they probably stretched a chain across the river at that point to stop barges until they paid a toll, then lowered the chain by means of a windlass.
cachukis
(4,118 posts)5. Many years managing their spaces. Maintained a
high brow mein. Good eye.