10 Sights in Überlingen, Germany (with Map and Images)

St. Nicholas Cathedral is the parish church of Überlingen on Lake Constance. The five-nave basilica was built between 1350 and 1576 in the late Gothic style. The furnishings of the largest late Gothic church building on Lake Constance include a carved altar by Jörg Zürn, a masterpiece of German Mannerism (1613–1616). The cathedral towers over the historic old town of Überlingen, especially through the high north tower. The semicircular square north of the church was a cemetery before 1530. South of the church stands the city's late Gothic town hall, built in 1494, which already shows influences from the Italian Renaissance.

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The Reichlin-von-Meldegg-Haus in Überlingen is a former patrician house above the old town of Überlingen, furnished with elements of the late Gothic and Florentine early Renaissance. It is considered one of the oldest Renaissance buildings in Germany and is one of the most important cultural monuments and sights of the city. Since 1913, the cityscape-defining building has housed the municipal museum, which is one of the oldest and largest cultural history museums in the Lake Constance region.

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The Franciscan Church of the Immaculate Conception is an originally Gothic, later Baroque former monastery church of the Franciscan convent in Überlingen. Like many other mendicant churches, it does not have a church tower, but only a small baroque roof turret. The church is located between Spitalgasse and Franziskanerstraße next to the Franciscan Gate in the old town. After the Minster of St. Nicholas, to whose parish it also belongs, it is the second largest church in the city.

Wikipedia: Franziskanerkirche (Überlingen) (DE)

The Catholic Jodok Church in the so-called village in Überlingen on Lake Constance is a pilgrimage church and is located directly on the Via Beuronensis, the part of the Way of St. James between Neckar and Lake Constance on the way from Pfullendorf to Wallhausen. The church is slightly recessed in the street line and belongs to the Überlingen cathedral parish of St. Nicholas.

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Between June 1944 and April 1945, prisoners of the Überlingen-Aufkirch subcamp were forced to work in the Molassefel Formation between Goldbach and Überlingen on the northern shore of Lake Überlingen and were intended for the underground relocation of armaments factories important to the war effort from Friedrichshafen, about 35 km southeast on the shores of the Obersee.

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Burgberg Castle is a moated castle on the Burgberg in the northeast of the town of Überlingen in the Lake Constance district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The listed castle dates mostly from the last third of the 17th century, but is located on the site of an older moated castle dating back to 1374. It is privately owned and is not open to the public.

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The Church of St. Michael in Aufkirch near Überlingen on Lake Constance was the first mother church of the city of Überlingen. The small hall church is located on a hill northwest of Überlingen and dates partly from around the year 1000. The Sylvester Chapel in the Goldbach district, which is older and much better known, was founded later.

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The Sylvester Chapel south of Goldbach, a district of Überlingen on Lake Constance, Lake Constance district, Baden-Württemberg is a small pre-Romanesque church on the shores of Lake Constance west of the city. It belongs to the pastoral care unit Überlingen in the deanery of Linzgau of the Archdiocese of Freiburg.

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The bank is an approximately six hectare green area in the western urban area of Überlingen. The park was planned as part of the Landesgartenschau Überlingen in 2020 and, after a year of delay due to the Covid 19 pandemic, opened on April 30, 2021.

Wikipedia: Uferpark Überlingen (DE), Website

The Bodenseereiter fountain is a work of art by the sculptor Peter Lenk in Überlingen on Lake Constance. The fountain was erected in 1999 and is best known as a caricature and grotesque monument to the local poet Martin Walser.

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