Jesuit College Passau
The former Jesuit college in Passau was founded in 1611 by the Jesuits who were appointed to Passau by Prince-Bishop Archduke Leopold of Austria . The fort-like building with observatory was built in 1613 by the Alsatian Jesuit priest Johannes Isfording from Molsheim . To the west of the Jesuit College is the former Jesuit Church of St. Michael .
The Jesuit college was both a grammar school and a diocesan university, temporarily also a clerical seminary . In 1662 the college was damaged by fire. In the prince's room on the ground floor there are stucco work from the Carlone school . In the inner courtyard you can see facade painting in the style of the Dutch early renaissance as well as a bust of the prince-bishop and governor-general of the Netherlands Leopold Wilhelm of Austria . Until shortly before the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773, the Jesuits dominated the education of the clergy in the Diocese of Passau.
Today the former college houses the Leopoldinum grammar school . The attached area of the former theological-philosophical college belongs to the University of Passau and was built in 1913/1914 instead of a theater and school building for the Jesuits. The baroque building opposite the street housed the Jesuit seminar and today the state library. Several manuscripts are on display in the former refectory , including the so-called Vornbacher Bible from 1421.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '25 " N , 13 ° 28' 14.7" E