Lion Valley

Lion Valley City of Friedrichshafen Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 50 ″ N , 9 ° 29 ′ 7 ″ E
Height :	400 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	1910
	Löwental Monastery (around 1770)

Löwental is a residential area belonging to the core city of the Baden-Württemberg city of Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance in Germany .

history

Löwental, whose former name was "Eichstegen", was the ancestral seat of a Welf ministerial family who owned extensive property and rose to become imperial ministries. Johann von Eichstegen handed over his Eichstegen-Löwental castle with the lands to the Dominicans in Constance in 1250 so that they could establish a monastery .

The monastery was expanded in the 13th and 14th centuries and had several conflicts with the town of Buchhorn . In 1415 it was placed under imperial patronage, and at the end of the 15th century it belonged to the Landvogtei of Swabia . In the Thirty Years War it was destroyed, but built 1657/87 again. In 1806 the monastery was secularized , and in 1838 its goods went to the Württemberg court chamber . In 1910 the area was incorporated into the city of Friedrichshafen.

Infrastructure

In the Löwental district there are essential elements of Friedrichshafen's infrastructure. As early as 1915 an airship hangar was built there for the production of the zeppelins . Due to its location just outside the city, Löwental was cheap to build an airport . In 2002, the exhibition center was completed there, where major trade fairs such as the IBO have been held ever since . In Löwental, the Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn has a stop of the same name on the Ulm – Friedrichshafen Southern Railway .

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History of the Löwental settlement