Fortress
Veste Oberhaus
🇩🇪 Germany
Veste Oberhaus is a fortress that was founded in 1219 and, for most of its time, was the stronghold of the Bishop of Passau, Germany. It is now the site of a museum, a youth hostel and a restaurant.
The fortress is located on the mountain crest (St. Georgsberg) on the left side of the Danube, between it and the Ilz, and dominates the old city of Passau, which it faces across the Danube. Below Oberhaus on the promontory between the two rivers is Veste Niederhaus, part of the fortress system.
Text adapted from “Veste Oberhaus” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Veste Oberhaus ranks #2,489 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #181 of the 349 mapped in Germany. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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