Tourist attractions Konstanz

This vast park created for the Grand Dukes of Baden blends romantic woods and the variety and bright colour of flowered terraces. The presence of hibiscus, orange trees and daturas shows the mildness of the climate. Don't miss the large butterfly gre..

The church was built at various periods between the 11C and 17C, which accounts for the lack of unity in its appearance.The panels of the main doors in the façade are decorated with bas-reliefs of scenes from the life of Christ. Note St Maurice's C..

With the port, shady gardens, casino, quays and ancient defence towers, the shores of Lake Constance make a pleasant place for a stroll. At the end of the jetty stands an 18m-high statue of Imperia, the work of the contemporary sculptor Peter Lenk. T..

In the 10-11C, the island of Reichenau was one of the largest monastic centres in the West. Today the island's 430 hectares are given over to market gardening. The three churches are the island's principal tourist attractions. The Carolingian church ..

Left to the canton of Thurgovie by Empress Eugenie in 1906, Arenenberg contains works of art and furnishings, collected by its former owners, and in particular Queen Hortense, mother of Napoléon III. There is the magnificently furnished salon in peri..

The vast Gothic cathedral has an enormous central portion with five aisles covered with fan vaulting. A graceful Swabian work of 1510, the Virgin of the Crescent Moon, stands in St. Elizabeth's chapel off the south aisle.

Now a palace, Salem abbey was built by Franz Beer from the Voralberg School. The size and rich decoration of the buildings bear witness to its former wealth and importance. The old summer refectory has retained its beautiful stuccoed ceiling, the wor..

This old Cistercian abbey was built in the Gothic style between 1297 and 1414. The austere exterior is striking, while the interior is a classic example of Cistercian Gothic with a large chancel and flat chevet, soaring vaults and side aisles support..

This is a Renaissance building decorated with paintings of the city's history. In the interior courtyard there is an elegant residential wing from the 16C flanked by two round towers.

This former warehouse was the venue for the conclave that elected Pope Martin V in 1417. Opposite is a monument to the airship inventor, Count Zeppelin (1838-1917), born in Constance. You can see the Graf Zeppelin , which crossed the Atlantic in 192..

The former convent of Peterhausen forms a marvellous setting for the Regional Museum of Archeology . Its 3 000 m 2 contain exhibits on a whole range of periods from 4 000 BC up until the recent industrial history of Ludwigsburg. Archeological inves..

Former church in the Augustine convent, the basilica was built in its current form in the 17C and decorated in the 18C in the Baroque style. The chapel of Mont-des-Oliviers contains an extraordinary group of 250 wooden figurines by a Tyrolean sculpto..

Built in the 16C, this little Arenenberg Castle stands in the middle of a park with a terrace overlooking Constance Lake, and in 1817 it became the property of Queen Hortense, daughter of Joséphine de Beauharnais and wife of the former King of Hollan..

The museum presents reconstitutions of dwellings on stilts and other characteristic dwellings from the stone age and bronze age.

The council chamber is decorated with great finesse in the Gothic manner: panelled walls embellished with projecting arches, a ribbed and slightly rounded ceiling.

The square lies between the Gothic cathedral, the north façade of the town hall and the Renaissance municipal chancellery.

Among the exhibits in the municipal museum is a collection of cribs and miniature 18C wood carvings in the folk tradition depicting episodes from the life of Christ.

The museum of the fire brigade evokes five centuries of fire-fighting and protection against fire.