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Friedrichshafen

Friedrichshafen

Friedrichshafen is a city on the northern shoreline of Lake Constance in Southern Germany, near the borders of both Switzerland and Austria.

Plan a trip to Friedrichshafen From Memmingen

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.

Get in

Getting to Friedrichshafen

  1. 01
    Bodensee-Airport Friedrichshafen

    It has direct flights from Belgrade, London-Gatwick (seasonal), Bucharest, Skopje and several other seasonal destinations.

  2. 02
    Friedrichshafen Stadt
  3. 03
    Friedrichshafen Hafen

    Both train stations are within walking distance of the city centre.

See

Worth seeing

The

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Waterfront

    Walk along the expansive waterfront from east of the harbour to the Palace Church (in the west).

  2. 02
    Canoeing
  3. 03
    Climbing
  4. 04
    Airship

    Messestraße 132 (at the airport next to the exhibition centre), info@zeppelinflug.de.

  5. 05
    Swim

    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.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Regenbogen Imbiss

    Friedrichstraße 75.

  2. 02
    Izmir Kebap

    Paulinenstraße 4.

  3. 03
    Laguna

    Stadtgarten, Friedrichstraße 18.

  4. 04
    Restaurant "Cafe

    Eckenerstraße 100.

  5. 05
    Asia Imbiss Fernost Garten

    Ehlersstraße 25.

How locals move

Getting around Friedrichshafen the local way

  • 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.
  • Get inThe main train station is , but there is also a small train station very close to the ferry terminal called .

From Wikivoyage: Friedrichshafen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Matti Blume (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.