12 Sights in Lindau (Bodensee), Germany (with Map and Images)

Lindau is a major town and island on the eastern side of Lake Constance in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the county (Landkreis) of Lindau, Bavaria and is near the borders of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, and the Swiss cantons of St. Gallen and Thurgau. The coat of arms of Lindau town is a linden tree, referring to the supposed origin of the town's name. The historic town of Lindau is located on the 0.68-square-kilometre (0.26 sq mi) island of the same name, which is connected with the mainland by a road bridge and a railway causeway leading to Lindau station.

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St. Peter's Church is the oldest sacred building in the Bavarian-Swabian town of Lindau (Lake Constance). The church, which is Romanesque at its core and has since been profaned, dates back to the 11th century and is of supra-regional importance due to late Gothic wall paintings – often, but uncertainly, attributed to Hans Holbein the Elder. It stands on the western edge of the old town on the island of Lindau and has housed a war memorial since the 1920s.

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The Minster of Our Lady, also called St. Mary's or until 2002 Collegiate Church, is the Roman Catholic parish church of Lindau in Lake Constance. It is located on the market square, in the eastern area of the island of Lindau.

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The Lindau Peace Museum in Lindau (Lake Constance) is a peace museum of the Augsburg diocese of Pax Christi. The Peace Museum was founded in 1980 on the initiative of the architect and Pax Christi member Thomas Wechs from Augsburg. After a phase of reorientation, the friedens räume – museum in Bewegung opened its doors in 2001. The new concept of the Peace Museum was developed together with the management team and the Austrian artist Ruth Gschwendtner-Wölfle. The sponsor is the international Catholic peace movement Pax Christii of the Augsburg Diocesan Association.

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The Lindau City Museum was located in the baroque town house Zum Cavazzen on the market square of the island of Lindau (Lake Constance). The building has been undergoing extensive renovation since 2018. The collection of exhibits important for the city's history is currently closed and will be completely rethought and redesigned in the coming years.

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The Lindau Lamentation is a late Gothic panel painting by an artist who is not known by name, who received the emergency name "Master of the Lindau Lamentation" from this work. The picture, created between 1410 and 1420, was painted in egg tempera on coniferous wood and is one of the most important works of Lake Constance Swabian painting of the early 15th century. It is owned by the Municipal Art Collections of the City of Lindau (Lake Constance) and is shown in the permanent exhibition of the City Museum in the Haus zum Cavazzen.

Wikipedia: Lindauer Beweinung (DE)

The Lindau Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Lindau, on Lake Constance. It is the southernmost lighthouse in Germany, and the only lighthouse in Bavaria. It is 33 metres (108 ft) tall and has a circumference of 24 metres (79 ft) at its base. Notably, it has a clock in its facade.

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Degelstein Castle, also known as Weiherschlösschen, is the ruins of a moated castle near the shore of Lake Constance in the area of Lindenhofpark in today's Degelstein district of Lindau in the Swabian district of Lindau (Lake Constance) in Bavaria.

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Hoy is an uninhabited island in Lake Constance in Germany. It lies 400 metres east of the island of Lindau in the Bay of Reutin and 100 metres south of the lakeshore near the mouth of the Oberreitnauer Ach. With an area of 53 square metres it is the smallest island in Lake Constance.

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The Evangelical-Lutheran, listed Christuskirche is located in Aeschach, a district of the large district town of Lindau (Lake Constance) in the district of Lindau in Bavarian Swabia. The building is registered with the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the list of monuments in Lindau (Lake Constance) as an architectural monument under the number D-7-76-116-370. The church belongs to the parish of St. Stephen's Christ Church in the deanery of Kempten in the Augsburg church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.

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The listed Roman Catholic parish church of St. Pelagius is located in Oberreitnau, a district of the large district town of Lindau in the district of Lindau (Lake Constance) of Bavaria. The building is registered with the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the list of monuments in Lindau (Lake Constance) as an architectural monument under the number D-7-76-116-435. The church belongs to the Lindau deanery of the Diocese of Augsburg.

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The listed Roman Catholic parish church of St. Urban and Silvester is located in Unterreitnau, a district of the city of Lindau in the Bavarian-Swabian district of Lindau (Lake Constance) of Bavaria. The building is registered with the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the list of monuments in Lindau (Lake Constance) as an architectural monument under the number D-7-76-116-461.

Wikipedia: St. Urban und Silvester (Unterreitnau) (DE)