Kippenhorn
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The Kippenhorn is a prominent headland (regional name: Horn ) on the north shore of the Obersee in the western area of the municipality of Immenstaad on Lake Constance below Hersberg Castle .
geography
The Kippenhorn is the western boundary of an extensive bay with Friedrichshafen as its center, which in turn includes several local bays and extends east to the Argenhorn at the mouth of the Argen . The distance between these two headlands is 17 km. Your landmarks, Schloss Hersberg and Schloss Montfort in Langenargen, have always been important reference points for setting course for Lake Constance shipping . The subsoil of the Kippenhorn consists of glacial debris from the same moraine gravel as the surrounding hills. It extends about 200 meters below the water level into the lake to the steeply sloping dump.
history
The Kippenhorn was first mentioned in a document in 1143. The name is of Franconian origin and means Horn des Kippo , the short form for Childbert, after which the nearby Kippenhausen was named. Remnants of pile dwellings indicate early settlement in the Neolithic Age (5000–2000 BC). Up until 100 years ago there were only a few fishermen's huts and a restaurant mentioned in 1404. The cotton nets were dried and mended on rows of stakes. Several wooden walkways were used to load shops with gravel from the gravel pits near the shore. Until the landing stage in Immenstaad was built in 1875, there was a request stop for the scheduled ships in front of the Kippenhorn for the delivery of mail, freight and passengers by rowing boat.
On February 2, 1940, the commander of Jagdgeschwader 51 "Mölders" , Major Ernst Günther Burggaller , crashed during a low-level flight exercise with a Messerschmitt Bf 109 E on the Kippenhorn and did not survive the attempted emergency landing. He was a well-known flying ace in World War I and later a racing driver. In 1981 the wreck of the oldest known sailing ship from Lake Constance was discovered on the Kippenhorn .
Tourism and leisure
The gravel bank on the Kippenhorn was a popular washing and bathing place from an early age. Today there is an open-air swimming beach on the Landspitze area, the municipal lido Immenstaad with the indoor swimming pool Aquastaad as well as a widely visible flashing light for the storm warning . The good wind conditions are used by a surf club and a sailing school.
Seology
At the Kippenhorn the current of the Rhine water , which flows through Lake Constance, is still noticeable. The water temperature is slightly lower than in the shallow water of the nearby bays and the abundance of fish is greater in the area of the steeply sloping dump . The municipality of Immenstaad pumps its drinking water from a depth of 40 meters into a reservoir on the nearby Hochberg.
ecology
The Kippenhorn is a landscape protection area and FFH area .
literature
- D. Hakelberg, J. Leidenfrost, W. Tegel, W. Trogus: The Kippenhorn near Immenstaad - Archaeological studies on shipping and wooden shipbuilding on Lake Constance before 1900. 1st edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1498-0 .
- Wolfgang Trogus: The landing sites in the Immenstaad district . In: Immenstaader Heimatblätter, Issue 19, Ed .: Heimatverein Immenstaad e. V. 2003, pp. 85-104.
Footnotes
- ^ Wolfgang Trogus: History of the village of Kippenhausen . In: Immenstaader Heimatblätter, No. 11, publisher: Heimatverein Immenstaad e. V. 1986, p. 63f.