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Lindau - "The Happy End of Germany"

by Anjutka - last update: May 17, 2006

One of the highlights of the Bodensee

Airview of Lindau with Swiss Alps in background
The Bodensee (Lake Constance in English) has two famous islands, the "flower island" Mainau, most of it a great park in the Western part, and Lindau, a charming town in the East. The airview picture (borrowed from the official Lindau website) shows perfectly the unique situation of this little city. It is a small city with about 24000 inhabitants, 3500 of them living on the island which is connected by a road and a railway bridge with the short Bavarian shore of the Bodensee.

Lindau has a long history, was "Freie Reichsstadt" and of course well fortified (some parts of it still exist) and is now Bavaria`s share of the Lake Constance between Bundesland Baden -Wuerttemberg and the Austrian Bay of Bregenz in Vorarlberg with the great background of the Swiss Alps above the opposite shore.
Harbour with New Lighthouse and Bavarian Lion

A real harbour in Bavaria!

Lindau has the only thing in the whole Bavaria which can be called a harbour (apart of its harbours along rivers like the Danube, of course) - a harbour which offers a shelter against storms (not so infrequent at this lake) and two real lighthouses!

Needless to say that Lindau is one of the main touristic destinations along this great lake.

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Pros:"one off the most attractive places around Lake Constance"
Cons:"crowded, of course"
In A Nutshell:"surely worth the trip"
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Comments for Anjutka about Lindau
christine.j Tue Sep 15, 2009 17:19 UTC
 Lindau is so beautiful, even late in summer.
lotharlerch Fri Oct 3, 2008 13:25 UTC
 So schoen kann es im Oktober sein - aber leider nicht heute. Ist uebrigens so was wie die Lieblingsstadt von Olga.
hunterV Fri Apr 4, 2008 21:10 UTC
 Anya, you were lucky to be there! Great!
Cristian_Uluru Fri Feb 29, 2008 18:00 UTC
 You are right, the Lake Constance is very beautiful!!! The atmosphere is very similar to the Italian ones!!
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