Sightseeing: Lake Constance
Mainau
with 45 hectare size the third largest island of Lake Constance, accessible by bridge, distance from lakeside 130 meters, so called flower or garden island, famous parkways with about 500 different conifers and leaf trees; baroque castle built from 1739 to 1746 according to plans of Johan Caspar Bagnato; church St. Marien built from 1732 to 1739, interiors, frescoes and paintings by Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, Franz Josef Spiegler, Johann Babtist Babel and Francesco Pozzi
Reichenau
Reichenau island is the largest island of Lake Constance and was declared, together with Reichenau Abbey, declared an UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is accessible via an artificial dam that was built in 1838. The island is about 430 hectares large, the length is 4.5 km, the width 1.5 km.
The benedictine cloister Reichenau was founded by bishop Pirminius in 724. St. Peter and Paul is a roman basilica built from the 10th century, three bells from the 14th century, one bell from 1521 and 1778.
Georgskirche, church of St. George, built around 900, wall paintings from the 10th and 11th century, extraordinary medieval paintings, church bells from the 13th century
Schopflen, castle ruins, remnants of a water castle built in the 11th century, destroyed 1366
Konstanz
historic old town of Constance, built from the 12th to 15th century; Konzilhaus, storehouse built from 1388 to 1391, place where the papal conclave of Pope Martin V. was held in 1417; Niederburg, oldest part of the old town, built from the 12th to 14th century, prosperous patrician buildings; Haus zur Kunkel, profane frescoes of the 13th and 14th century; Haus zur Katz, built 1424 as patrician trade guild building; Hohes Haus, representative building built by bishop Heinrich von Klingenberg and his brother Albrecht in 1292; Obermarkt, medieval place of court; town hall, former linen weaver guild house, built in the 16th century, renaissance facade with frescoes from 1864; theater, built as school building from 1609, reconstructed to a theater from 1789 to 1792; Domprobstei, rococo architecture, built from 1750 to 1774; Minster, first documentary mentioned 780, consecrated 1089, roman basilica; Mauritiusrotunde, chapel beside the minster, gothic holy sepulcher; Stephanskirche, church of St. Stephan, first documentary mentioned 613, late gothic reconstruction from the 15th century; Dreifaltigkeitskirche, built from the 13th century; Christuskirche, church built by Jesuits from 1604 to 1609
Meersburg
Medieval town fortification from the 12th and 13th century; Meersburg castle, built in the 7th century
Salem Abbey
Monastery founded by Gunthram of Adelsreute in 1136, buildings and church built between 1182 and 131, destroyed 1697, baroque reconstruction
Stilt house museum Unteruhldingen, open air museum with reconstructions of Neolithic Stone Age stilt houses
heiligenberg castle representative castle built from 1260, reconstructed in renaissance architecture from 1560