21 Sights in Constance, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Constance, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 21 sights are available in Constance, Germany.
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Imperia is a statue at the entrance of the harbour of Konstanz, Germany, commemorating the Council of Constance that took place there between 1414 and 1418. The concrete statue is 9 metres (30 ft) high, weighs 18 tonnes, and stands on a pedestal that rotates around its axis once every four minutes. It was created by Peter Lenk and clandestinely erected in 1993. The erection of the statue caused controversy, but it was on the private property of a rail company that did not object to its presence. Eventually, it became a widely-known landmark of Konstanz.
2. Dreifaltigkeitskirche
The Holy Trinity Church is a church building in Konstanz on Lake Constance. Since it was built in the late 13th century for the local monastery of the Augustinian hermits, it is also called the Augustinian Church. Until the dissolution of the monastery in 1802, it functioned as a monastery church and, from the 17th century, additionally as a garrison church, then as a hospital church, an Old Catholic church (1873–1904), a Roman Catholic parish church and today an ecumenical "city church". Due to its harmonious combination of simple Gothic mendicant architecture, late Gothic frescoes and baroque picture and stucco decoration, it is one of the most important sacred monuments in the city and one of the sights of Constance.
3. Konzil
The Council Building is a landmark in Constance on the shores of Lake Constance. The three-storey, massive stone building with a hipped roof was built from 1388 onwards as a warehouse for travelling and local traders and served as a transshipment point for trade goods at the port of Constance for almost 500 years. During the Council of Constance from 1414 to 1418, the conclave for the election of Pope Martin V took place in 1417 in this spacious building. It is considered to be the largest preserved medieval secular building in southern Germany and has been used as a restaurant, ballroom and congress centre since 1912.
4. Georg Elser
Johann Georg Elser was a German worker who planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. Elser constructed and placed a bomb near the platform from which Hitler was to deliver a speech. It did not kill Hitler, who left earlier than expected, but it did kill 8 people and injured 62 others. Elser was held as a prisoner for more than five years until he was executed at Dachau concentration camp less than a month before the surrender of Nazi Germany.
5. Archäologisches Landesmuseum
The Archaeological State Museum of Baden-Württemberg (ALM) looks after the state archaeology of Baden-Württemberg by preserving, researching and presenting archaeological finds from the state. Together with the House of History Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart, it is one of only two historically oriented museums with a responsibility for the entire state of Baden-Württemberg. Its legal form is that of a state enterprise. The exhibition area – including that of the branch museums – is 8,717 m².
Wikipedia: Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg (DE), Website
6. Otto-Moericke-Turm
Named after the former mayor of Constance, Otto Moericke, the Otto Moericke Tower in the Allmannsdorf district of Konstanz is a former water tower. It is located to the west about 200 metres from the shore of Lake Constance at the highest point of the village on the Allmannshöhe (458 m). The white, cylindrical structure forms a striking landmark visible from wide areas of Lake Constance; it also served as a youth hostel from the beginning.
7. St. Katharina
St. Catherine was a monastery of the Augustinian hermits under the patronage of St. Catherine in the Mainau Forest in today's city of Constance. The clearing in the Mainau Forest is a seven-hectare exclave belonging to the district of Litzelstetten and borders on the districts of Wollmatingen and Egg. In the past, the area, like the island of Mainau, belonged to the former municipality of Allmannsdorf.
8. Christuskirche
The Christuskirche Wollmatingen is the church of the Protestant parish of Konstanz-Wollmatingen, it belongs to the church district of Konstanz of the Evangelical Church in Baden and was built in 1933/1934 by the architects Karl Kunzmann and Berthold Sack. It is located in a prominent location in the Konstanz district of Wollmatingen on the Drumlin Langebohl at an altitude of about 430 m.
9. Herosépark
The Herosé Park is located in the Petershausen district of Konstanz between the Seerhein, Am Rheinufer and Reichenaustraße. To the west, next to the park, was the eponymous textile printing company Herosé until the year 2000, at the east end of the park is the Villa Rheinburg, behind it are the Municipal Children's House on the Rhine and Indoor Swimming Pool of the City of Konstanz.
10. Lutherkirche
The Lutherkirche is a church building of the Evangelical Church in Constance on Lake Constance. It stands outside the historic old town, on the eastern edge of the paradise area developed after removal of the city wall. The church is surrounded by Lutherplatz, at the transition from the upper arbor to the lower arbor. It is aligned in the western northwest east south of the direction.
11. Stephanskirche
St. Stephen's Church, also known as St. Stephen's Church, is a former collegiate and parish church in the old town of Constance, Germany. It is a three-nave basilica with a side tower next to the transition from the nave to the choir. St. Stephen's Church is considered to be the oldest church founded in Constance. Today it belongs to the Catholic pastoral care unit Konstanz-Altstadt.
12. St. Nikolaus
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas is located in Dingelsdorf, a district of Konstanz in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The parish belongs to the deanery of Konstanz in the Archdiocese of Freiburg. The church of St. Nicholas is registered as an architectural monument with the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments.
13. Alt-katholische Christuskirche
The Christuskirche St. Konrad is a baroque church building in the old town of Konstanz on Lake Constance, between the cathedral and the city theatre, facing Konzilstraße. The church has been used by the Old Catholic community since 1904. The name Christuskirche, but without the addition of St. Konrad, is given to the Protestant church in Konstanz-Wollmatingen.
14. BSB Konstanz
Reederei Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe GmbH (BSB) is a 100% subsidiary of Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH. The company's headquarters are in Konstanz in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg. With its fleet, the company operates regular scheduled services as well as excursion trips throughout Lake Constance. It is also a provider of event and charter trips.
15. Triumphbogen / Laubebrunnen
The Konstanz Arc de Triomphe is a fountain in Constance, Germany, designed and executed by the sculptor Peter Lenk. It was built in 1992 on the median strip of the main thoroughfare "Untere Laube", the most important transit route to Switzerland at that time. The fountain satirizes the traffic situation.
16. Fürstenberg
The Fürstenberg is a hill in the Fürstenberg district of the city of Konstanz named after him. It has an area of 3.4 hectares, is 450 meters long and 140 meters wide. It has a height of about 30 meters compared to the surrounding terrain, the highest point is at 437 m above sea level.
17. Bodensee-Naturmuseum
The Lake Constance Natural History Museum is the natural history museum of the city of Konstanz and is located in the building of the Sea-Life-Center near the Swiss border. The focus of the museum's exhibitions is on the geological development and nature of Lake Constance.
18. Synagoge Konstanz
The synagogue in Konstanz, the county seat of the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, was built in 1882/1883 and destroyed during the November pogroms of 1938. This first synagogue was located in Sigismundstraße. A new building was inaugurated in 2019.
19. Bernhard Goldlust
A Stolperstein is a ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'.
20. Theater Konstanz
Stadttheater Konstanz is a theatre in Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, whose history dates from 1607. The theatre operates three venues, Municipal Theatre (Stadttheater), Workshop (Werkstatt) and Hall of Mirrors (Spiegelhalle).
21. St. Gebhardskirche
St. Gebhard is a Roman Catholic church built in 1929/30 in Konstanz on Lake Constance. Since 2002, the parish has belonged to the Konstanz-Petershausen pastoral care unit in the Konstanz deanery of the Archdiocese of Freiburg.
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