Emerenz Meier Statue

On the banks of the Danube

This statue is of a locally famous poet which stand on the Danube river bank, she moved from Passau to Chicago in the USA where she died in 1928.

Some history here

You know, when you're on these tours they take you by things so quickly all you can do is snap pictures and move on. This is an interesting statue because I now find that she was born into a poor fami...

Great Work!

Christine Wagner, the artist, did an excellent work on this bronze bust. The details are worth a second look.

Heart-warming tribute to an obscure writer....

An inn-keeper's daughter, a working-class heroine who pursued her dream and wrote a rather memorable ditty cutting the privileged down to size....I liked it.

A Local Artist in Passau

Along the banks of the Danube, there is a bronze statue of Emerenz Meier, a local writer and poet in Passau. At the base of the statue is the inscription that she was born in 1874 and died in 1928. ...