Friedrichshafen
Friedrichshafen is a city on the northern shoreline of Lake Constance in Southern Germany, near the borders of both Switzerland and Austria.
Friedrichshafen is a city on the northern shoreline of Lake Constance in Southern Germany, near the borders of both Switzerland and Austria. It is the district capital (Kreisstadt) of the Bodensee district in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. Friedrichshafen has a population of about 63,000.
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Worth seeing in and around Friedrichshafen
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Schussen
The Schussen is a 59-kilometre-long tributary of Lake Constance, which drains to the High Rhine, in the southern portion of Upper Swabia in Baden-Württemberg.
5.8 km · tributary of the Lake Constance in Germany · Wikipedia - 02Obersee
The Obersee, also known as Upper Lake Constance, is the much larger of the two parts of Lake Constance, the other part being the Untersee. The two parts are separated by the Bodanrück peninsula.
5.5 km · the larger of the two lakes of Lake Constance · Wikipedia - 03Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
The Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen is a museum in Friedrichshafen in Germany, the birthplace of the Zeppelin airship. The museum houses the largest collection on airship travel in the world, and chronicles the history of the Zeppelin airships.
100 m · museum · Wikipedia - 04Zeppelin University
Zeppelin University is a private research university in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The university is accredited by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg.
3.8 km · private university in Baden-Württemberg, Germany · Wikipedia - 05Rotach
The Rotach is a 39-kilometre-long tributary of Lake Constance, which drains to the Rhine, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The river source is near the municipality of Wilhelmsdorf.
900 m · tributary of Lake Constance in Germany · Wikipedia - 06Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen
The Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen is an aerospace museum located in the German town of Friederichshafen near Lake Constance. The museum exhibits the aircraft designs of Claude Dornier, the Dornier company and aerospace products of Airbus.
3.4 km · technical museum in Friedrichshafen, Germany · Wikipedia - 07Zeppelinstadion
Zeppelinstadion is a multi-use stadium in Friedrichshafen, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches.
2 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 08Burg Altraderach
Altraderach Castle, also called the Old Castle or Little Heathen Palace, is a levelled castle in the area between Unterraderach and Raderach. The still easily visible burgstall lies in the parish of Kluftern in the borough of Friedrichshafen in the county of Bodenseekreis in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
6 km · castle in Germany · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
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Things to do
- 01Waterfront
Walk along the expansive waterfront from east of the harbour to the Palace Church (in the west).
- 02Canoeing
- 03Climbing
- 04Airship
Messestraße 132 (at the airport next to the exhibition centre), info@zeppelinflug.de.
- 05Swim
If you are in Friedrichshafen during the warm period of the year it is worth going to the Strandbad, the local open-air swimming bath.
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Where to eat
- 01Regenbogen Imbiss
Friedrichstraße 75.
- 02Izmir Kebap
Paulinenstraße 4.
- 03Laguna
Stadtgarten, Friedrichstraße 18.
- 04Restaurant "Cafe
Eckenerstraße 100.
- 05Asia Imbiss Fernost Garten
Ehlersstraße 25.
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Getting to Friedrichshafen
- Airports
- Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 3 km · Memmingen Allgau (FMM), 68 km · Zürich (ZRH), 73 km
- Stations
- Friedrichshafen Airport, 3.2 km · Friedrichshafen Stadt, 800 m · Friedrichshafen Hafen station, 100 m · Friedrichshafen Ost station, 1.4 km
- Memmingen → Friedrichshafen64 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · €9–13
- Stuttgart → Friedrichshafen127 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · €20–28
- Rheinmünster → Friedrichshafen163 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · €23–32
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Friedrichshafen
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Friedrichshafen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in}} You can also to fly to Zürich Airport () in Switzerland and take one of the hourly trains to Romanshorn, and then take the ferry across Lake Constance.
- Get inSince the last ferry during the off-season departs around 19:30 this is not an option for late arrivals.
- Get inThere is a ferry port in the very centre of Friedrichshafen with many frequent services to other ports on Lake Constance shores: A 45-minute car ferry service links Friedrichshafen to Romanshorn on the Swiss side of the lake.
- Get inA 40-minute Speedboat (Bodensee Katamaran) (pedestrians and cyclists only) links Friedrichshafen and Konstanz.
- Get inThere is a train station close to where the speedboat docks in Konstanz, where trains from many Swiss destinations, including Basel and Zürich, call.
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- Eriskirchmunicipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany4.1 km