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Municipality in Vorarlberg, Austria

Lochau

Lochau is a municipality in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg.

Lochau
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The place

Lochau is a municipality in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is located on Lake Constance, in the Bregenz district, near the border to Germany.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lochau

10 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.

  1. 01
    Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau

    Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey is a Cistercian territorial abbey and cathedral located at Mehrerau on the outskirts of Bregenz in Vorarlberg, Austria. Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey is directly subordinate to the Holy See and thus forms no part of the Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg.

    2.6 km · Catholic territorial abbey Immediately Subject to the Holy See in Austria · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kunsthaus Bregenz

    The Kunsthaus Bregenz presents temporary exhibitions of international contemporary art in Bregenz, Vorarlberg.

    1.3 km · contemporary art museum in Austria · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Leiblach

    The Leiblach is a 34-kilometre-long tributary of Lake Constance and the Rhine, respectively. It forms the Austria–Germany border near the lake.

    2.5 km · tributary of Lake Constance in Bavaria, Germany, and Vorarlberg, Austria · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Vorarlberg Museum

    The vorarlberg museum in Bregenz is the state art and cultural museum of the Austrian federal state of Vorarlberg. It was founded in 1857, and has since been a centre for collection and preservation of the state's art and cultural material.

    1.4 km · cultural museum of the Austrian federal state of Vorarlberg · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Casino-Stadion (Bregenz)

    ImmoAgentur Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Bregenz, Austria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and it is the home ground of SW Bregenz.

    1.9 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Parish church of St. Gallus

    The parish church of St. Gallus is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Bregenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.

    2 km · building in Bregenz, Austria · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Evangelische Kirche Hl. Kreuz

    The Kreuzkirche am Ölrain is a German Reformed Church of the town Bregenz and is located on the site of a former Roman settlement. The church building was constructed from 1862 to 1864 according to the plans of the architect Christian Friedrich von Leins from Stuttgart in Gothic Revival architecture style.

    2.4 km · church building in Vorarlberg, Austria · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Roman theater Bregenz

    The Roman Theatre in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria, is located in the quarter of Thalbach in Bregenz. Bregenz was called Brigantium by the Romans.

    1.8 km · Uncovered in 2013 and 2019 in Bregenz (Latin: Brigantium), Vorarlberg, Austria through targeted archaeological excavations in 2013 and 2019 on behalf of the Vorarlberg State Museum · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek (Bregenz)

    The Vorarlberg State Library is a regional academic library in Bregenz, Western Austria. It founded in 1904 as a branch of the Vorarlberg State Archives.

    2.6 km · library · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Vogelinsel

    The Vogelinsel is an island in Lake Constance with an area of around 600 square metres. It lies around 230 metres northwest of the mouth of the Leiblach opposite the Gemarkung of Reutin of the town of Lindau.

    2.7 km · small island in Lake Constance, Germany · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Lochau

Airports
Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 25 km · Memmingen Allgau (FMM), 64 km · Zürich (ZRH), 91 km
Stations
Bahnhof Bregenz, 1.7 km · Haltestelle Bregenz-Riedenburg, 3.4 km · Bahnhof Bregenz-Hafen, 1.2 km · Bahnhof Lochau-Hörbranz, 1.5 km
  • Innsbruck → Lochau
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · €19–27
  • Salzburg → Lochau
    248 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · €32–45
  • Linz → Lochau
    349 km · quickest by road, 5h 33m · €43–60
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lochau

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 Lochau. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inEuregio train tickets are available for unlimited travel in the region (including discounts on certain ferries).
  • Get inBSB runs seasonal ferries between April and October.

From Wikivoyage: Lindau, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    226 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    377 km
  3. 03
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    716 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    724 km
  5. 05
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    768 km

If you know how people move in Lochau – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Lochau

  • Bregenzurban municipality in the Bregenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria1.3 km
  • Kennelbachmunicipality in Bregenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria3.9 km
  • Eichenbergmunicipality in Bregenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria3.1 km
  • Hofrieden CourtThis district court was first mentioned for the first time in 1354, 1806 dissolved3.2 km