Many other churches include St. Michael's Jesuit Church, the oldest parish church of St. Paul, and the Pilgrim Mariahilf Church on the south hill of the Inn and Danube rivers.
Before the cathedral is a large square (Domplatz) with Lamberg-Palais, where the Passau Peace was concluded. The old medieval residence to the south of the cathedral and the Baroque New Residence to the west at Residenzplatz were the palaces of the prince-bishops
in the city. Right next to the 14th-century Gothic town hall, with its neo-Gothic tower and the great 19th-century Hauptzollamtsgebäude (the main customs office) on the Danube, is the Scharfrichterhaus, an important jazz and cabaret scene that runs a political
cabaret.
The Upper House Museum is housed in one of the largest castles in Europe, Veste Oberhaus, in Passau. The exhibition area of the museum covers 4,000 square meters in different parts of the building. Here is presented the history of the city and the region.
Veste Oberhaus is a fortress that was founded in 1219 and, for the most part, served as the fortress of the bishop of Passau, Germany. Today, it is the site of a museum, a youth hostel and a restaurant, as well as an open-air theater, dating from 1934.
