Welcome to the
Hotel Spitzberg garni
We are glad to have you with us as our guest.
The following pages are meant to give you a survey of our services.
For further questions and information, please contact the front desk any time.
If there is anything in our hotel not up to your expectations, please tell us immediately, so that we have the chance to react and make amendments.
It is our greatest concern that you leave this house a fully satisfied guest.
One more request:
You would do us a great favor, if you took the time to fill out our questionnaire.
Your criticism, your suggestions and of course especially your compliments are very important to us.
Please insert thequestionnaire in the
wooden box, which is located at the side entrance.
Thank you very much and enjoy your stay!
Some dates and facts
City arms: red wolf in a silver shield
inhabitants: approx. 50000
area: 27 square miles
altitude: 965 – 1453 ft above sea level
The „Spitzberg“
Napoleon Bonaparte visited Passau in 1805 during his campaigns in Europe. In that year, he led the Grande Armée during the Third Coalition War against a coalition consisting of Russia, Austria, and Great Britain. Napoleon and his troops crossed the Danube and advanced through Passau.
It is said that he referred to the hill behind the hotel as the "Spitzberg." Just as many French terms in the Passau dialect were preserved with a "Bavarian pronunciation" (Trottoir, Parapluie, Boeff la motte, etc.) from that time, from then on, the area of the mountain behind our hotel was also called Spitzberg. Spitzbergstraße leads to the highest point of this "rather small" mountain. Perhaps this mountain had a strategic significance. So, what could be more fitting than naming our hotel after the name invented by the famous Napoleon.