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# Friedrichshafen

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

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## Every way there

- Memmingen → Friedrichshafen 64 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · €9–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/memmingen-to-friedrichshafen) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Memmingen&to=Friedrichshafen)
- Stuttgart → Friedrichshafen 127 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · €20–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/stuttgart-to-friedrichshafen) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Stuttgart&to=Friedrichshafen)
- Rheinmünster → Friedrichshafen 163 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · €23–32 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rheinmunster-to-friedrichshafen) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rheinm%C3%BCnster&to=Friedrichshafen)

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The field note

What is in and around Friedrichshafen, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Friedrichshafen has

- Y Scheduled flights Friedrichshafen (FDH), 3 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 100 timetable feeds for this country, 7 with real-time
- Y Ferries Anlegestelle-Katamaran-Friedrichshafen, 0 km, Katamaran-Reederei Bodensee GmbH & Co. KG; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

47.650°, 9.483°

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. Bodensee-Airport Friedrichshafen It has direct flights from Belgrade, London-Gatwick (seasonal), Bucharest, Skopje and several other seasonal destinations.
2. Friedrichshafen Stadt
3. Friedrichshafen Hafen Both train stations are within walking distance of the city centre.

See

## Worth seeing

The

Do

## Things to do

1. Waterfront Walk along the expansive waterfront from east of the harbour to the Palace Church (in the west).
2. Canoeing
3. Climbing
4. Airship Messestraße 132 (at the airport next to the exhibition centre), info@zeppelinflug.de.
5. 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. Regenbogen Imbiss Friedrichstraße 75.
2. Izmir Kebap Paulinenstraße 4.
3. Laguna Stadtgarten, Friedrichstraße 18.
4. Restaurant "Cafe Eckenerstraße 100.
5. 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 in Since the last ferry during the off-season departs around 19:30 this is not an option for late arrivals.
- Get in There 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 in A 40-minute Speedboat (Bodensee Katamaran) (pedestrians and cyclists only) links Friedrichshafen and Konstanz.
- Get in There is a train station close to where the speedboat docks in Konstanz, where trains from many Swiss destinations, including Basel and Zürich, call.
- Get in The main train station is , but there is also a small train station very close to the ferry terminal called .

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