Koller Island

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Schematic location of the Koller Island (red), bordered by the Old Rhine and the Rhine

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

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:

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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