List of ferries on the Konstanz – Meersburg car ferry

This list provides an overview of all ferries ever built on the Konstanz – Meersburg car ferry . All ships for which no construction data is given were built by the Bodan shipyard in Kressbronn on Lake Constance .

No	Commissioning: name, year: later name		Outside service- position	Remarks	displace supply	Length over all	capacity	Whereabouts
1	1928: Konstanz 1930: Meersburg 1963: Lukas 2011: Konstanz	The consistency in the first year of operation	1963	First inland sea car ferry in Europe, still without a passenger deck. 1963 to approx. 1980 work ship, restored 1996 to 2011.	140 t	32 m	15 cars	restored, now traditional ship historic ferry Konstanz .
2	1930: Constance 1970: Hercules		1970	1950: Increase of the passage height from 3.20 m to 3.60 m 1970 to 1993 work ship	350 t	42 m	25 cars	scrapped
3	1939: Konstanz 1947: Baden 1947: Bodan 1963: Meersburg		1975		400 t	45.5 m	30 cars	Since 1977 in Lochau as a club home on land.
4th	1952: Linzgau		1980	Built by the Deggendorfer Werft und Eisenbau in Deggendorf , transported in segments to Ludwigshafen on Lake Constance and assembled there on a temporary cross-slip .	464 t	49.5 m	30 cars	Scrapped in 1996
5	1954: Thurgau	Thurgau ferry	2004	First ferry on Lake Constance with Voith-Schneider drive 1965/66: widening of the deck from 8.15 m to 8.82 m; Installation of remote control, sewage system	496 t	54 m	40 cars	Scrapped in 2005
6th	1957: Hegau	Ferry ship Hegau at the ferry terminal in Meersburg	2004	1966/67: Deck widening from 8.35 m to 8.91 m; Installation of remote control, sewage system	516 t	54 m	30 cars	Scrapped in 2006
7th	1963: Fritz Arnold	The Fritz Arnold in front of the vineyards in Meersburg	2012		512 t	54 m	40 cars	Scrapped in 2012
8th	1970:  Fontainebleau				534 t	54 m	40 cars	in service
9	1975: Constance				842 t	68 m	54 cars	in service
10	1980: Meersburg				842 t	68 m	54 cars	in service
11	1993: Kreuzlingen			First ferry on Lake Constance with a diesel-electric drive.	857 t	68 m	54 cars	in service
12	2004: Tábor	The Tábor in front of the Meersburg vineyards		New design with lots of glass, handicapped accessible by elevator, toilets below deck, diesel-electric drive. The hull was supplied by the Polish Finnomar shipyard in Stettin , and the construction was then carried out by the Bodan shipyard.	1060 t	72 m	60 cars	in service
13	2010: Lodi			Optimized design for the Tábor, which has been extended by a good 10 m. Parts of this ferry were also manufactured in Stettin and assembled at the Bodan shipyard.	1120 t	82.4 m	64 cars	in service

Web links

Commons : List of ferry boats on the Konstanz – Meersburg car ferry  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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• Car ferry Konstanz – Meersburg. The floating bridge over Lake Constance. Published by: Stadtwerke Konstanz, 1989.
• Articles about the individual ferries

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.Historische-Faehre-Konstanz.de - website of the association Rettet die Meersburg ex Konstanz eV , which restored this ship.