Koller Island
The Kollerinsel is - contrary to what the name suggests - an inland peninsula . Today it lies in the Rhine between the municipalities of Brühl ( Baden-Württemberg ), to which it belongs administratively, and Otterstadt ( Rhineland-Palatinate ).
The peninsula is - next to the old town of Konstanz - one of the two regions on the left bank of the Rhine in Baden-Württemberg. On the Kollerinsel, however, there is also a roughly equal piece of forest, which belongs to the Rhineland-Palatinate community of Otterstadt. The course of the state border was determined on April 24, 1840 in a state treaty between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Baden . At that time, Baden received the Kollerinsel in exchange for an area on the right bank of the Rhine near Germersheim , which was needed for a bridgehead for the Germersheim Fortress .
Geography and Origin
The Kollerinsel covers an area of approximately 400 hectares and is located in the area of the municipality of Brühl. The peninsula lies to the west of the community center and the community of Ketsch, and to the east of the Rhineland-Palatinate communities of Otterstadt and Waldsee .
The area was originally located to the right of the Rhine, but became left bank in the course of the straightening of the Rhine and now forms a peninsula , almost completely surrounded by an arm of the Old Rhine and the new straightened course of the river . The Altrhein southwest of the Koller Island is also known as the Kollersee .
Current status
The peninsula has been subject to landscape protection since 1938 . It is available to people as a recreational area and animals as a retreat. Furthermore, it has recently been used as a polder for flood protection . For this reason, the pre-existing farms were seed off and a horse farm with the address Kollerhof, 67166 Otterstadt , which on a mound replaced stands.
Koller ferry
The Koller Island is connected by the Koller Ferry, a summer car ferry , at around river kilometer 409.5 to the right bank of the Rhine and there with the municipality of Brühl . The ferry is operated on behalf of the state of Baden-Württemberg by the Ludwigshafen gravel company Becker & Grieshaber.
Neighbor ferries:
- south: river kilometer 395: Rheinhausen ferry Speyer ↔ Rheinhausen
- north: river kilometer 415.5: Rhine ferry Altrip ↔ Mannheim-Neckarau
traffic
The traffic development takes place via the Baden-Württemberg state road 630, which is the continuation of the Rhineland-Palatinate state road L 535 and crosses the peninsula. East of the Rhine, it continues via Brühl to Schwetzingen .
There is a larger, chargeable car park for day visitors near the beach and the Kollersee pier.
Campsites
After older campsites on the Kollerinsel had to close, a new campsite has been located near the beach of the Kollersee in the southwest of the peninsula since 2017.
Web links
- Profile of the landscape protection area in the protected area directory of the LUBW
- Website of the municipality of Brühl on the Koller Island
- Info from the community of Brühl to the Koller ferry with travel times
- The Kollerinsel - sometimes Bavarian, sometimes Baden ...
- Panorama picture that can be fully rotated with the mouse, location on the Koller ferry
Individual evidence
- ^ Adam Ignaz Valentin Heunisch: The Grand Duchy of Baden, described historically-geographically-statistically-topographically. Heidelberg 1857, p. 69.
Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 6 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 1 ″ E