Veste Oberhaus

Veste Oberhaus is a fortress that became founded in 1219 and, for maximum of its time, served because the stronghold of the Bishop of Passau, Germany. It is currently the website of a museum, a teens hostel, and a eating place, as well as an open-air theatre relationship to 1934. The fortress is positioned at the mountain crest on the left side of the Danube among it and the Ilz, and dominates the antique metropolis of Passau, which it faces across the Danube. Below Oberhaus at the promontory between the 2 rivers is Veste Niederhaus, a part of the fort gadget.

The fort was built in 1219 by Ulrich II, the first prince-bishop of Passau, at the vicinity of a formerly present chapel committed to St. George. The goal changed into to express the army electricity of the bishopric and aid the bishop's popularity as an elector of the Holy Roman Empire, granted in 1217, and also to shield in opposition to both external enemies and inner threats consisting of the ones residents of Passau who wanted to acquire the unbiased repute of a loose imperial city.