360-degree campus tour: Above the Innwiese

The Innwiese lawn, the Nikolakloster building and the Philosophicum are in the foreground. A tree-lined cycle path along the embankment of the river Inn forms the Southern edge of the Innwiese. Behind the university buildings lie the city centre with its bus station, cinema, shopping centre, and, a short walk away, the main train station. 

Between the Philosophicum building and the other faculties, the Empress Elisabeth Bridge carries a railway line that cuts through the campus.  Known as the "route to the Balkans", this is one of the main traffic arteries in the European rail network. Every day, numerous freight trains, regional trains and long distance trains travel along this track. Anyone taking the train from Hamburg, Brussels or Berlin to Vienna tends to pass right through our campus, usually in an ICE high speed train or one of the growing number of international sleeper trains.

Behind the railway bridge and up river, the rest of the campus sits along the river embankment, raised just high enough above the water level for our buildings to be safe from most incidents of flooding. 

Down the river, the IG building and the Nikolastrasse 12 building are a very short stroll away from the main campus. By the river, the Inn promenade leads to the Old Town and the corner where Passau's three rivers meet. Along the promenade, there are a cinema, the theatre, and various restaurants and bars.

Across the river, Innstadt, the pilgrimage church Mariahilf, and forests and fields on hillsides offer a pleasant scenery. In the shadows of the trees rests the Innstadt cemetery.