Youth Hostel Passau

Spacious outdoor area (©DJH Landesverband Bayern e.V.)

The cultural youth hostel of the over 2000 years old three-river city Passau is located on the Georgsberg in the over 800 years old protection and protection castle Veste Oberhaus directly at the confluence of the Danube, Inn and Ilz.

Our youth hostel with its 129 beds is located in the former castle tavern and the general building, ideally suited also for your next family vacation.

Use an extraordinary ambience for your workshops: The historic rooms with cross-graded vaults provide fresh ideas and tell of times past.

Unfortunately, our house is not suitable for wheelchair users and guests with limited mobility (steep castle grounds, stairs without elevator in the entire area). If you have any further questions, please contact the youth hostel management.

Certified in the period

November 2022 - October 2025

Information about Accessibility

Barrier-free information

Short Report as PDF

Some information on accessibility are listed below. For detailed information please see the evaluation report at the end of the text.

  • There is a public car park. 
  • The path from the car park to the entrance (230 m distance) is not easy to walk or drive on.
  • The entrance to the youth hostel (Tavern building, ground floor) is only possible via three steps.
  • The reception counter is on the ground floor and is 124 cm high. There is no equivalent possibility of communication in a sitting position.
  • The evaluated areas such as rooms, sanitary facilities, lobby, dining room, conference and leisure rooms can only be reached via stairs with single-sided handrails.
  • Doors are less than 70 cm wide (e.g. sanitary facilities).
  • In the dining rooms there are no wheelchair accessible tables.

Room 31 (multi-bedroom) with bathroom on the 2nd floor (only accessible via stairs)

  • The manoeuvring space in the bedroom is 250 cm x 134 cm in front of essential immobile furnishings, 134 cm x 215 cm to the left of the bed, to the right the bed stands next to the wall.
  • There is no bathroom designed for people with disabilities (no stepless shower, no grab handles, etc.). The door width of the sanitary area is 69 cm.

Room 39 (multi-bedroom) on the 2nd floor (only accessible via stairs)

  • The manoeuvring space in the bedroom is 240 cm x 260 cm in front of essential immobile furnishings, 260 cm x 210 cm to the right of the bed, to the left the bed stands next to the wall.
  • The doors to the floor toilet and showers are 68 cm wide.
  • There is no toilet designed for people with disabilities (no stepless shower, no grab handles, etc.).

Evaluation report: Download as PDF

Some information on accessibility are listed below. For detailed information please see the evaluation report at the end of the text.

  • There is no clearly optically perceptible alarm.
  • There is no audio induction loop.
  • There is no technical possibility for deaf people to communicate with the service staff.
  • In the dining rooms there are tables with bright and glare-free lighting, on which there are no lamps that restrict the field of vision or eye contact. Seating areas with low background noises are available (small dining room).
  • At least one electrical outlet is available in the rooms near the bed.
  • Ringing or knocking at the door is not indicated by a flashing signal that can be perceived in all rooms.

Evaluation report: Download as PDF

Some information on accessibility are listed below. For detailed information please see the evaluation report at the end of the text.

  • Assistance dogs are not allowed.
  • The entrance area is visually contrasted to the surrounding area, but cannot be recognized by a tactile change of floor covering.
  • The operating elements (e.g. door handles, light switches, emergency call buttons) are predominantly visually rich in contrast and tactilely detectable throughout the entire building.
  • All evaluated areas usable by the guest are brightly lit and glare-free.
  • The steps are not visually rich in contrast.
  • The paths in corridors are predominantly visually contrasted with the surroundings.
  • The walls or other structural elements can partly be used as orientation.
  • There is no uninterrupted guidance system (e.g. floor indicators) indoors and outdoors.
  • Signage is in legible font and visually rich in contrast.
  • There is no information available in Braille. 

Evaluation report: Download as PDF

Some information on accessibility are listed below. For detailed information please see the evaluation report at the end of the text.

  • The name and logo of the establishment are not clearly recognizable from the outside at the entrance.
  • Business cards/brochures with the address and telephone number of the host are visibly displayed at the reception desk.
  • There is no information in easy language. Information for orientation is occasionally available in photorealistic representation.
  • There is an uninterrupted guidance system.
  • There is no colored or pictorial guidance system.

Evaluation report: Download as PDF

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Spacious outdoor area Spacious outdoor area (©DJH Landesverband Bayern e.V.)
Youth Hostel Passau Youth Hostel Passau (DJH Landesverband Bayern e.V.)
The creative workshop The creative workshop (©DJH Landesverband Bayern e.V.)
The dining room The dining room (DJH Landesverband Bayern e.V.)
2-bed-room 2-bed-room (DJH Landesverband Bayern e.V.)