Following Princess Sissi’s Traces, Where She Secreted In Passau

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Following Princess Sissi’s Traces, Where She Secreted In Passau

iWalk 23 August 2008 6 Comments

Found in 11th century, Wilder Mann Hotel (wild man) was the most historic hotel in Passau. It has hosted Sissi (Empress Elizabeth of Austria), and the famous U.S. Astronaut Neil Armstrong.
It also share the same building with the world’s largest collections of Bohemian glass, Passau Glass Museum.

The entrance of Passau Glass Museum

The Passau Glass Museum possesses one of the world’s largest collections of Bohemian glass. The architecture is in Bavarian style.

Princess Sissi’s room in Wilder Mann Hotel.

Some of Princess Sissi’s properties are exhibited here for the fans from all over the world.

Because of the movie Sissi, I love the pure-hearted Bavarian princess very much. So I would not miss a chance following her traces in Passau.

Wilder Mann Hotel (wild man) Locates at the centre of Passau, just beside the quay where most of the ships will leave for the cruises to Vienna, Budapest and the Black Sea.

Princess Sissi (Empress Elizabeth) stayed in Passau for three times. In the year 1862, She stayed in Wilder Mann Hotel for 8 days meeting her parents, duke Max and duchess Ludowika of Bavaria and her sister, Queen Marie of Bourbon-Neapel. The room she had lived became the Empress-Sissi-room as a special memo.

Wilder Mann Hotel (wild man) shares the same building with Passau Glass Museum. The museum houses Bavarian, Bohemian and Austrian glass from 1780 to 1935. And it was the world’s largest collections of Bohemian glass. Yeah, Many glasses with fantastic and complex details.

I also was told the building contains the largest German-language book collection. Yeah, I saw many books there, and I got a famous manual named Rotel Tour there. That’s back-packer’s favorite.

It’s really a place you should visit if you travel to Germany.

Wilder Mann Hotel (wild man) Travel Guide:

Address: D-94032 Am Rathausplatz, at the opposite of the townhall of Passau
Tel: 0851-3 50 71
Fax: 0851-3 17 12
Offical Website: Wilder Mann Hotel (wild man)

Passau Glass Museum Travel Guide:

Address: D-94032 Am Rathausplatz, Passau
Offical Website: Passau Glass Museum
Open Time: 13:00pm-17:00pm Open daily
Cost: Adult: 5.00 Euros ; Group discounts: 4.00 Euros ; Students: 4.00 Euros ; Child 12 & under: FREE

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Tags: Bavaria, Bohemian, Germany Travel, Neil Armstrong, Passau, Passau Glass Museum, Sissi, Smart Hotel

6 Comments »

catherine fortin (Who am I?) said:

Awesome travel site! Putting this on my blog roll.

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no image iWalk (Who am I?) reply on August 24th, 2008 12:35 pm:

Thank you so much catherine. I just added you as my travel mate!

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# 24 August 2008 at 5:10 am

liamalexander (Who am I?) said:

I agree, it is an awsome travel site; already on my blog roll. This post is a beautiful glimpse into a bygone era. I’m interested to see the movie ‘Sissi’ now; I hadn’t heard of it.

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no image iWalk (Who am I?) reply on August 24th, 2008 12:19 pm:

Oh, Liam. you were already on my travel mate list too.

I was not surprise you hadn’t heard of it.

It was a very very old film launched in 1955. It’s the romantic biopic about Princess Elisabeth in Bavaria, later Kaiserin Elisabeth aka Sissi.

I love the Romy Schneider who starred as Sissi in the film. But she died very early at the age of 43 (1982).

I saw this trilogy of movies when I was still a child. But I still remembered clearly about this love story and the beautiful scene of Bavaria and Alps. But I didn’t know that Romy Schneider already died some years then.

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# 24 August 2008 at 6:58 am

Tiny (Who am I?) said:

Sissi is one of my favorite movie!

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# 24 August 2008 at 11:44 pm

Bebe (Who am I?) said:

I accidentally came across your blog while googling for information about Passau. Out of curiosity, how big is the town anyway? Is the local university within easy reach, say if you’re coming from downtown? Thanks! Btw, just to let you know, I’m an incoming student at Universitat Passau, hence my questioning..

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# 1 September 2008 at 8:34 pm