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<p> a picturesque fortified frontier town of Bavaria, containing 15,583 people, and situated at the confluence of the Inn and the Ilz with the Danube, ninety miles east-north-east of Munich, and rising like an amphitheatre on the most beautiful spot of the Danube, is strikingly effective and picturesque. The place is especially celebrated in Protestant [[Church]] history, for it was here that the treaty of [[Passau]] was signed Aug. 2, 1552, by the emperor [[Charles]] V on the one side and the Protestant princes of [[Germany]] on the other, giving public recognition to the Lutheran faith as among the ecclesiastical institutions of the empire. Among the chief buildings are the cathedral, the bishop's palace, the post-office (where the treaty of Passau was signed in 1552); the Jesuits' College, a large building now used as at school; and the church of St. Michael's. In the [[Cathedral]] [[Square]] (Domplatz) is a bronze statue of king [[Maximilian]] Joseph, of recent erection. Passau contains also numerous picture-galleries, collections of antiquities, and benevolent and charitable institutions. The natural advantages of this site, in a military point of view, were appreciated at an early period by the Romans, who erected a strong camp here, garrisoned it with Batavian troops, and from this circumstance named it Batava Castra. Passau was long the seat of a bishopric founded in the 7th century, but secularized in 1803. The cathedral of Passau and great part of the town were. consumed by fire in 1662. During the [[Reformation]] period many advocates of the new cause flourished in Passau, but the Jesuits of Vienna, who in 1612 succeeded in establishing a college at Passau, used all means at their command to reinstate [[Romanism]] at this place in its wonted glory and power, and they succeeded so well that the Protestant fold has been reduced to a mere trifle. See Spieker, Gesch. des Augsburger Religions friedens (Schlitz, 1854); Ranke, Reformationsgesch. vol. vii; Soames, Hist. of the Ref 3:747; Hefele, Conciliengesch. v. 26 sq.; Fisher, Hist. of the Ref. p. 167; Gieseler, Eccles. Hist. 4:206. (See [[Protestantism]]); (See [[Reformation]]). </p>