Sights in Constance

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The Imperia at the port of Constance

The sights in Konstanz on Lake Constance go back almost as far as the history of the city. Their spectrum ranges from the late antique Roman fort and early medieval church buildings to the patrician and guild houses of the medieval township to large, connected Art Nouveau and Wilhelminian style ensembles. During the world wars, the city was spared from fighting, which is why the medieval old town has been preserved almost completely. As a former bishop's seat , the city has a rich sacred heritage, with a number of church buildings, former monasteries and canons' courts to be found in addition to the former bishop's cathedral , the Konstanz Minster . The Council of Constance (1414–1418) left hardly anything remarkable in urban planning, but its traces can still be found here and there, not least in the officially controversial, otherwise overwhelmingly enthusiastic public work of art of the city, the 1993 set up Imperia .

Secular buildings

Antiquity

Roman tower foundation on Münsterplatz
  • Roman fort on Münsterplatz: Probably laid out in the 4th century under Constantius Chlorus , this fort was part of a fortification line around the western, southern and eastern Lake Constance area. Further Roman fortifications on the lake can be found in Arbon and Bregenz . The Constance fort was abandoned with the withdrawal of the Roman troops in 401, while a mixed population of Celts and Christian Romans continued to exist for some time. Part of the fort that was excavated in 2003 was made accessible to the public in an underground room under Münsterplatz (only during guided tours and on certain dates).

The State Archaeological Museum in Petershausen shows numerous finds from prehistoric and ancient times, not only from the region but from all over Baden-Württemberg .

middle Ages

Town hall with frescoes
Schnetztor
Painted facade of the house "zum Hohen Hafen" on the Obermarkt
Konstanz, Münsterplatz 5: House Zur Kunkel. Access from the back of the house
Rheintorturm on the Rheinsteig in Constance
Powder Tower on the Rheinsteig in Constance

The historic old town from the 12th to 15th centuries has been preserved in many places as a closed and lively stock. Whole streets have remained largely unchanged in the building stock since the Middle Ages, since in the Second World War, unlike many German cities, Constance was not bombed due to its proximity to the Swiss border. In addition, between the 16th and the middle of the 19th century the city was economically weak and there were hardly any wealthy citizens who could afford new buildings. Larger gaps in the historical inventory were only made in the 19th century when large parts of the late medieval city fortifications were demolished for the expansion of the city towards paradise and the construction of the railway. Numerous medieval residential towers and houses are now hidden under modern facades. Many have a large number of murals on the exterior or interior walls. The promotion of tourism, which has been intensively pursued since the 1930s, has resulted in many of the medieval monuments considered the main attraction of the city being restored and made accessible to the public.

  • Council building : Erected between 1388 and 1391 and located directly at the harbor, it served the Konstanz merchants for centuries as a warehouse and trading house. The conclave for the election of Pope Martin V took place here in 1417 . In the 19th century it was still used as a trade fair building with a railway connection, today it is a restaurant and event center, as well as the main venue of the Southwest German Philharmonic in Konstanz
  • Niederburg (Konstanz) : The "Niederburg" north of the Münster district is the oldest part of the city. It has been built here since the bishop's settlement in the 7th century from the apartments of the episcopal servants and ministers . From the 12th to the 14th The town houses of the canons and wealthy patricians built here date from the 18th century . Narrow, winding streets with many restaurants and wine bars shape the cityscape here.
  • Haus zur Kunkel : Early secular frescos (13th and 14th centuries) about the production and processing of canvas can be found in Haus zur Kunkel at Münsterplatz 5. Another fresco cycle depicts scenes from Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival . The battle of virtues against vices is allegorically depicted in the courtyard entrance.
  • Haus zur Katz: The former house of the patrician guild Zur Katz on Katzgasse was built in 1424 in the rustic humpback square style and is considered the oldest Renaissance building north of the Alps. The Palazzo Vecchio in Florence is considered a model . It served as a festival and assembly hall, later as the city archive and as a residential building. Today it is part of the cultural center on Münsterplatz.
  • "Hohes Haus": The six-storey stone house on Zollernstrasse / Hohenhausgasse is a representative town house, which was built in 1295 by Vogt Albrecht von Klingenberg (a brother of Bishop Heinrich von Klingenberg ). Façade paintings from 1935 by August Brandes depict scenes from a medieval fish market and a wedding party. At the time it was built, it was the tallest secular building in the city.
  • Obermarkt: In the Middle Ages, the Obermarkt was the city's court. Here was the pillory on which minor offenses were served. On the north side of the square is the “Hotel Barbarossa”, where Friedrich I Barbarossa is said to have negotiated the Peace of Constance in 1183 . The house was used as a restaurant early on - a dance floor is documented for 1419.
Next to the "Barbarossa" is the house "Zum Hohen Hafen". It is decorated with murals from the turn of the century before last, which were carried out by Carl von Häberlin for the then owner Max Rahn. The focus of the paintings is the enfeoffment of the burgrave of Nuremberg, Friedrich VI. von Zollern with the Mark Brandenburg , which King Sigismund carried out on the Obermarkt in 1417, as well as the visit of Wilhelm II of Prussia in September 1888.
  • Town hall: The town hall of Konstanz consists of the former guild house of the linen weavers (16th century) on Kanzleistraße and the house "Zum Thurgau" behind it. It served as a law firm for a long time and is still the seat of the mayor and parts of the city administration. The facade facing Kanzleistraße was rebuilt in 1593 in the Venetian Renaissance style. On the front there are historicist frescoes by Ferdinand Wagner (1864) depicting scenes and people from the city's history. In small medallions above the windows of the first floor there are portraits of Ambrosius Blarer , Ulrich Zasius , Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg and Marie Ellenrieder ; A picture frieze above the arcades on the ground floor shows events that were fundamental to the state: The peace treaty of Friedrich Barbarossa with the cities of Lombardy (Peace of Constance, 1183), the visit of Friedrich II. (1212), the enfeoffment of Hohenzollern Friedrich with the Mark Brandenburg (1417) as well the struggle of the Protestant city population against the troops of the Catholic Emperor Charles V (1548). The inner courtyard, decorated in the Renaissance style, and the murals on the 1st floor (1898) are also worth seeing.
  • The Rosgarten Museum is also housed in a former guild house, that of the butchers' guild. The guild hall has been preserved in the building erected in 1454. The museum has been showing art, culture and history of the Lake Constance region since 1870.
  • “Zum Goldenen Löwen” house: The back courtyard of this building complex contains a medieval residential tower , which is decorated from top to bottom with illusionistic facade painting (around 1570).
  • Old town hall at Fischmarkt: The old town hall at Fischmarkt / Konzilstrasse was built in 1484, then almost completely renovated several times. It used to have splendid decorations from the Renaissance period. The town's coat of arms, carved from sandstone, with the town patrons Konrad and Pelagius above the main entrance has been preserved from the time it was built .

Only a few elements of the curtain wall with over 20 towers and gates that enclosed the city from the Middle Ages to the 19th century have survived. In addition to some remains of the wall, there are three tower-like structures. Almost nothing above ground has survived from the second fortification wall that surrounded the city and the Paradies district since the Thirty Years War . The Grießeggturm as the western corner point of the defense line has been converted into a residential building at the end of Fischenzstrasse . It has been known as the Paradieser Schlössle since the 19th century . From 1733 Constance was no longer fortified .

  • Rheintorturm: This city gate used to be the only access to the city from the north via the Rhine. From 1200 to 1856 a wooden bridge over the Rhine ran directly towards the gate. It was important for Constance and for long-distance trade. The so-called Old Rhine Bridge , which exists today and was built for the railroad, runs past the Rheintorturm to the east. Built in the 13th-15th centuries Century, the Rheintorturm serves as a rehearsal venue for the "Constance Fanfare Moves Community". The tower was renovated in-house as part of the Rheintorturm initiative and the “Constance Fanfare Train Community”. Today the tower room is used as a meeting point.
  • Schnetztor: The city gate was used as a defense tower in the 14th / 15th centuries. Century erected. It is on the main road to the south. The main traffic route ran from the Rheintorturm across the city via Rheingasse and today's Wessenbergstrasse to end at the Schnetztor. There the roads began through the suburb of Stadelhofen in the direction of St. Gallen and Winterthur . It has been classified as an architectural monument of national importance since 1978. The Schnetztor was renovated from 1976 to 1984 with the planning and energy of the Blätzlebuebezunft. The guild room of the Blätzlebueb guild was relocated to the Schnetztor in 1978.
  • Powder Tower : Formerly also called "Brick Tower " or "Judenturm", it formed the corner of the inner city wall on the Rhine . The name "Judenturm" comes from the fact that the city's Jews built this tower around 1250 to make their contribution to the military. Around 1420 all male Jews were imprisoned here for 40 weeks until they had paid a fine of 20,000 guilders. In this way, Emperor Sigismund got rid of the debts he had accumulated in the city at the Council of Constance. The Jews were then expelled from the city. Today the Powder Tower serves as a guild house for a fool's guild .

Baroque and Classicism

  • City Theater : The building, originally built in 1609 as a school for the Jesuit Lyceum , was also used for the pupils' theater performances from the start. From 1789–1792 it was converted into a “Kommedienhaus”. The city theater is the oldest continuously used stage in Germany and is located on the Konzilstrasse next to the Christ Church .
  • Dompropstei : The red building at Rheingasse 20 is particularly noticeable from the old Rhine bridge. Until 2017 it housed the notary's office and the land registry. The Maria Magdalena Chapel inside the building, decorated in Rococo style from 1750–1774, has been used regularly by the Russian Orthodox parish of Konstanz since 1985.
  • "Haus zum Wolf": Here at the market square you will find the only rococo facade with rocaille ornaments in the city.
  • Wessenberghaus: The former home of Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg is a medieval canon court, which was provided with a classical facade. There is a wall niche facing the street with a bust of its most prominent resident. Today it belongs to the Wessenberg cultural center.

Historicism and Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau ensemble Conrad-Gröber- Strasse

There are several interrelated historicism and art nouveau ensembles in Konstanz . Paradise has entire streets in historicism and art nouveau . The “Villa Kramer” on Schottenstrasse and the Marie-Ellenrieder-Gymnasium on Brauneggerstrasse are special individual buildings. On Seestraße / Conrad-Gröber-Straße there are splendid buildings from the turn of the last century in a prominent place, which cite different styles from Gothic and Romanesque to Baroque.

  • Bismarck Tower : The defiant building on the Raiteberg was built in 1911/1912 according to plans by the architect Georg Wickop . Like other Bismarck towers , it was built in honor of the "founder of the empire" Otto von Bismarck .
  • Main station : Built in the neo-Gothic style in 1863 as a representative terminus of the Grand Ducal Baden Main Railway , the station has a striking, slim tower that is reminiscent of an Italian campanile .
  • "Deutsches Haus": It was built in 1904–1905 in the neo-renaissance style , after the previous building, built in 1835, burned down to the first floor in 1903 (accommodated the restaurant and brewery Schälkle ). The new building on Stephansplatz was planned and executed by the Constance architect August Knäble (1872–1915). The facade painting comes from the Mezger family from Überlingen . The building first housed the Oberrheinische Bankanstalt , then the Hotel Graf Zeppelin .
  • Reichspostgebäude: The building was built between 1888 and 1891 in the neo-renaissance style as the seat of the Konstanz Oberpostdirektion of the Deutsche Reichspost . The relief heads of the “five continents” above the windows of the mezzanine floor, which were intended to show that the post office reaches all parts of the world, are shaped by colonialism . The telegraph line isolators on the eastern gable show the current state of communication technology at the time. Today the building is the seat of the Sparkasse Bodensee , which was created shortly after the extensive renovation from the merger of the Sparkassen Konstanz and Friedrichshafen.
  • Seeheim Palace : The palace -like villa was built by the Prussian Finance Minister and State Secretary in the German Empire, Adolf von Scholz, in the neo-renaissance style in 1889/1890. His son, the poet Wilhelm von Scholz , lived in Seeheim Castle from 1924 to 1969. It was built according to the plans of the architect Hermann Eggert on the foundations of a previous building. This was temporarily owned by Hortense de Beauharnais , formerly Queen of Holland and Duchess of Saint-Leu.
  • "Villa Prym": The Wilhelminian style villa on the lake promenade was acquired by the haberdashery manufacturer Gustav Prym in 1893 and the facade was decorated with Art Nouveau frescoes in 1908. Among other things, they show the owner's daughter and son-in-law as a mounted couple. In 1965 a "Bodensee-Kunstschule" was established there and used from 1984 to 2013 by the communication design department of the HTWG Konstanz . The Constance Yacht Club operates a club restaurant on the ground floor of the villa, the upper floors have been used by a law firm as well as by the “Bodensee Water Rescue Foundation” and its foundation academy since 2013. In 2013, numerous wall paintings were exposed again during a complete renovation. The villa is partially available to the public.
  • "Villa Remy": The house is located in a tree-lined park directly on the shore path along Lake Constance. The merchant and lieutenant colonel Eduard Remy (1846–1930), who came from Bendorf am Rhein, had the Munich architect Emanuel von Seidl carry out the construction from 1895 to 1896 . Eduard Remy was a member of the Remy family of steel entrepreneurs ( Rasselstein AG). After a tower was added to the villa in 1940, new buildings in the park followed in 2008.

Modern buildings

Water tower on the "Allmannshöhe": Otto Moericke Tower

Churches and monasteries

Constance Minster (view from the south)
  • Constance Minster : Construction of the bishop's church probably began shortly after the Bishopric of Constance was founded around 590. The building, consecrated to Maria , Konrad and Pelagius , was first mentioned in documents in 780. The Romanesque building was built around 1054 and was renovated in the 14th-16th centuries. Century provided with towers and Gothic side chapels. The nave was vaulted in baroque style in 1679. Large parts of today's furnishings date from the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • Mauritius Rotunda : The pre-Romanesque round chapel adjoins the cathedral to the south and was founded by the canonized Bishop Konrad of Constance around 940. It imitates the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on a smaller scale . Inside is the early Gothic Holy Sepulcher (around 1260) , which is important for art history
  • Stephanskirche : In contrast to the Bishop 's Cathedral , St. Stephan was the parish church for the citizens. It was first mentioned in 613; it probably goes back to a late Roman assembly hall or cemetery church. It received its late Gothic appearance in the 15th century.
  • The St Martins Chapel on the corner of Fischenzstrasse and Grießeggstrasse in Paradies (Constance) was built in 1922 on the site of the previous churches.
  • Dreifaltigkeitskirche , formerly Augustinian Church: The church building was built from 1268 as a monastery church for the (no longer existing) monastery of the Augustinian hermits . It is a three-aisled Gothic basilica without a transept. The central nave has late Gothic wall frescoes from the time of the Council donated by Emperor Sigismund . Around 1740, the flat wooden ceiling was replaced by a baroque mirror vault with rich stucco and paintings, and the windows were enlarged.
  • Luther Church on Lutherplatz
  • Paulskirche : Profaned, has served as the "K9 cultural center" since 1990. The rococo stucco is worth seeing there .
  • St. Johann : The former collegiate church was profaned and is now used by restaurants and shops.
  • Christ Church : Built by Jesuits 1604–1609, it is the oldest baroque church in the Lake Constance area and the most stylish of the city's historic churches. The barrel-vaulted single-nave church has been a place of worship for the Old Catholics since 1904 .
  • Petershausen Monastery : Founded in 983 by Bishop Gebhard von Konstanz , the Benedictine monastery was initially an episcopal own monastery, later an imperial abbey . The Romanesque three-aisled basilica was demolished in 1830. Today the former monastery buildings house the Archaeological State Museum , the Konstanz Music School, the Constance Police Department and parts of the District Office.
Lorettokapelle Konstanz, 1638
  • Zoffingen Monastery : The Dominican convent was founded in 1257 and is the only Constance monastery that has been settled to this day. The associated church of St. Katharina still has late Romanesque and Gothic remains. Inside, it has been largely redesigned in baroque style.
  • Dominican monastery : The Dominican monastery, located on a small island in the lake in front of the "Niederburg", was founded in 1235 and was the first place of activity of the mystic Heinrich Seuse . The church is a three-aisled, flat-roofed basilica with Romanesque and early Gothic forms. After secularization, it was used as a factory by the Macaire family of entrepreneurs . Their descendant Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin was born there. The monastery was converted into a hotel in 1875. Today the “ Steigenberger Inselhotel” is located in the building . In the former nave there are early and high Gothic sacred wall paintings from the 13th century.
  • Franciscan monastery: founded in 1250, bought by the city in 1815 and used as a schoolhouse and town hall since 1845.
  • Lorettokapelle : Chapel with an open prayer hall in front, built in 1638 in an exposed location on the Staaderberg and Lorettoberg ; The name is derived from the second most important Italian (Marian) pilgrimage site after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Loreto , see Loreto Chapel
  • St. Katharina Monastery : First mentioned in a document in 1324, secularized in 1808, since 2013 part of the "Adventure Forest Mainau" belonging to the island of Mainau

Modern churches:

  • Kreuzkirche in Allmannsdorf (Protestant): built in 1956, concrete with clinker facade, architect: Bauhaus student Hermann Blomeier, who z. As well as the Ländebauten in Staad and Meersburg designed
  • Brother Klaus Church (Roman Catholic): built in 1956, typical of the light architecture of the 1950s
  • Maria-Hilf-Kirche (Roman Catholic): Allmannsdorf, built in 1967 as the first church after the reforms of the 2nd Vatican Council, with the altar in the center of the rows of pews facing it from three sides
  • St. Gallus (Roman Catholic): In the Berchen area, built in 1971, massive concrete architecture from the 1960s / 1970s, artistic design by Emil Wachter

Fountain

"Kaiserbrunnen"
Konstanz, Münsterplatz: Fountain by Franz Gutmann. Adam and Eve on the gargoyle.
The "arbor fountain" by Peter Lenk
Karl-Steuer-Brunnen at the corner of Wessenbergstrasse / Zollernstrasse
  • Kaiserbrunnen : In place of an old, dilapidated well, the Kaiserbrunnen was built on the Marktstätte from 1896–1897, the financial basis of which goes back to a foundation by Joseph Wittmann. On October 30, 1897, the ceremonial unveiling and inauguration took place.
In 1892 the city council announced a public competition, but without stipulating a specific program. Four artists submitted designs for the competition; the city council complied with the judges' opinion and awarded the “Kaiserthema” design by the local sculptor Hans Baur with the first prize.
According to the "imperial theme", the fountain was presented in such a way that four smaller-than-life imperial statues representing four German dynasties were set up in niches on a stone pyramid in the middle: Heinrich III. ( Salier ), Friedrich Barbarossa ( Hohenstaufen ), Maximilian I ( Habsburg ) and Wilhelm I ( Prussian Hohenzollern ).
The Kaiser still images were obtained from the electroforming Kunstanstalt the WMF in Geislingen / platforms in Galvanobronze prepared; Despite their low metal content, they were dismantled in March 1942 and delivered to the copper smelter in Rastatt as part of the “Metal Donation of the German People”.
In 1993 newly designed busts by Gernot Rumpf were erected, which depict the emperors in a more caricatural manner; in addition, weird sculptures of water-spouting "sea hares", a three-headed peacock with three papal crowns and other figures that allude satirically to the time of the Council and the history of the city. The caricature portraits of the emperors are now Otto the Great , Friedrich Barbarossa and Maximilian I, who points with one hand in the direction of the figure of his second unloved wife Bianca Maria Sforza underneath . A sculpture of the warlike Prussian Emperor Wilhelm I was not restored and a closed shutter was installed to cover the niche. A dove of peace escapes the niche from the crack of the slightly open shutter.
There is also a bronze edition of the Peace Treaty of Constance (1183) at the fountain .
  • Fountain in front of the Konstanz Minster: Franz Gutmann's fountain consists of a large cast-iron bowl that is filled with water by a gargoyle. Adam and Eve are depicted on the gargoyle. The fountain has been a listed building since 2015.
  • Triumphal Arch of Constance : Like the Imperia, the foliage fountain was created by Peter Lenk. It stands between the lanes of the busy Lower Arbor. The grotesque figures of the arbor caricature caricature the car madness, vanity, obsession with sex and other bad habits of society. Colloquially, it is also simply referred to as the “steering fountain”.
  • The Blätzlebuebebrunne was built in honor of a Constance figure from the Alemannic carnival. It is located near the Schnetztor between Blätzleplatz and Augustinerplatz. It shows a fast night in a full-body costume made of flaky textile patches ("Blätzle") with a cockscomb. The Blätzlebueb is accompanied by a small Blätz and a figure showing a long nose.
  • Another carnival fountain in memory of the late night Karl Steuer (1909–1962) is located on the corner of Wessenbergstrasse and Zollernstrasse. The dedication is written in Bodenseealemannisch: S 'Wasser wo kunt us em lake, me kas au drinke! (in High German: “The water that comes out of the lake can also be drunk!”). In an almost nocturnal manner, water runs out of the nose of Karl Steurer's character head into the right bowl.
  • The Lienhardsbrunnen in Paradies (Konstanz) on the corner of Fischenzstrasse and Grießeggstrasse was moved here from the market place in 1897.
  • The Hörnle-Brünnele on the sunbathing lawn of the Hörnle outdoor pool provides direct and constant spring water from an artistically designed curved steel pipe that towers about a meter.

Sculptures

Three (of four) figures between “ powder ” (in the picture) and “Rheintorturm”, in the background today's Rhine bridge
  • The four sandstone sculptures on the Rheinsteig are 2.70 meters high. They represent secular princes, designed by Hans Baur (sculptor) , namely Leopold von Baden with a constitutional charter and Berthold I. von Zähringen as the first great Zähringer. Next as ecclesiastical prince, designed by Franz Xaver Reich , St. Konrad as the founder of Constance with Bible and chalice and Gebhard II , Bishop of Constance, who founded the Petershausen Monastery in 983. These statues were originally located on the pillars of the Rhine bridge from 1861 to 1936 and were dismantled when it was widened in 1936 and later moved to the Rheinsteig.
  • The sculpture Schwurhand by Franz Gutmann at the entrance from the Untere Laube to Torgasse shows three fingers of a hand sticking out of the ground and is set up near the district court of Constance .

Memorials

Constance on Lake Constance on the shores of the lake in front of the city garden, “Frauenpfahl”: In the Middle Ages, women were executed here by drowning
In memory: Konstanz Bahnhofstrasse / Sigismundstrasse: monolith with the names of the deported Jews from Konstanz (four pages with names)
Grützke's Hecker monument on the town hall of Constance
The "Hussenstein" commemorates the reformer Jan Hus , who was executed here
Bust in memory of Georg Elser in Konstanz, Schwedenschanze 10, in the garden of the Wessenberg Social Center : Here Georg Elser was arrested while trying to escape to neighboring Switzerland
  • Frauenpfahl : It was erected on the shores of Lake Constance in front of the Konstanz city garden. It consists of a post with a ball of fine white struts attached to the upper end. In the Middle Ages, women were sewn into a sack and drowned at this point as punishment for their offenses.
  • Memorial for the deported Jews of Konstanz: At the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Sigismundstrasse, a small obelisk commemorates the Jewish citizens of the city who were deported during the Nazi era . Engraved are the names of 108 citizens who were brought to a French internment camp on October 20, 1940 and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp or in the Sobibor extermination camp . Diagonally opposite - there is now a commercial building on the site - was the Konstanz synagogue , which was used in the November pogroms on 9/10. November 1938 was destroyed.
  • Hecker Monument: In the town house (formerly the Franciscan Church) a people's assembly took place during the Baden Revolution on April 12, 1848, at which Friedrich Hecker called for participation in the Hecker uprising . It is often rumored that he proclaimed the republic from the balcony of the town house; however, that was not the case. From 1996-1998 Johannes Grützke designed a three-part majolica relief on the east side of the Citizens' Hall at Stephansplatz 17 below the said balcony. On the middle panel, it shows Hecker as the tribune of the people, the figure of Freedom dancing on his left; behind him Gustav Struve . The panel on the left shows the negative city population, the right panel shows the Hecker procession.
  • Elserdenkmal: In 2009, a bust of the resistance fighter Georg Elser was unveiled at the site of his arrest . It stands on German territory on the Swiss border at Emmishofer Customs in the garden on the Schwedenschanze street (today's social center in Wessenberg), where the resistance fighter was arrested while on the run. The base on which the bust stands bears the inscription: "I wanted to prevent the war". The monument was created by the artist Markus Daum . The Nazi opponent Elser, who had been neglected for a long time, lived in Konstanz from 1925 to 1929. In November 1939 he had carried out an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler with a self-made bomb in Munich's Bürgerbräukeller; however, the attack failed. Elser then tried to break away at the Schwedenschanze over the "green border" into neutral Switzerland, but was checked and arrested there. In the final phase of National Socialism, he was murdered in 1945 in the Dachau concentration camp at Hitler's behest.

See also

literature

  • Glory to the fathers be the jewels of the cities . In: The Gazebo . Volume 42, 1866, pp. 659–662 ( full text [ Wikisource ] - Stadtcanzlei in Constanz; 4 illustrations).
  • ADAC travel guide Bodensee. Pp. 18 to 23 books.google.de
  • Frank van Bebber, Martina Keller-Ullrich: Marco Polo travel guide Bodensee. 2010, pp. 30–33, books.google.de
  • Baedeker's Constance . City guide from Karl Baedeker. Baedeker , 1982.

Web links

Commons : Sights in Konstanz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The House. Housing Konstanz. The murals are wrongly called frescoes there; accessed on March 16, 2018
  2. ↑ Hotel Barbarossa - History ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 7, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hotelbarbarossa.de
  3. ^ Franz Xaver Kraus: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden (Volume 1): The art monuments of the district of Constance. Freiburg i.Br. 1887, p. 291. online
  4. ↑ Heike Thissen: Paradieser Schlössle. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland. Edition Südkurier, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 .
  5. ^ Eva-Maria Bast: Rheintor and Council. Trade on a grand scale. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland. Edition Südkurier, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 . Pp. 54-57.
  6. ↑ Claudia Rindt: How fools saved the Schnetztor. In: " Südkurier ", August 2, 2019, p. 17.
  7. ↑ Eva-Maria Bast: Powder Tower. Paid for debt with people. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland. Edition Südkurier, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 . Pp. 166-168.
  8. ^ Landesdenkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg, Lower Monument Protection Authority of the City of Konstanz: Open Monument Day 2010 - Konstanzer Ländebauten . Leaflet: Historische-faehre-konstanz.de (PDF)
  9. ↑ Heike Thissen: St. Martin's Chapel. Smuggling in heaven on earth In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland. Edition Südkurier, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 . Pp. 75-77.
  10. ^ Landesdenkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg, Lower Monument Protection Authority of the City of Konstanz: Open Monument Day 2010 - Konstanzer Ländebauten . Leaflet: Historische-faehre-konstanz.de (PDF)
  11. ↑ Aurelia Scherrer: Applause for the new old fountain. In: Südkurier of July 10, 2015.
  12. ↑ (en) Blätzle-Brunnen Konstanz, Germany, BW
  13. ↑ Heike Thissen: Lienhardsbrunnen. Rolled out of the city center into paradise. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland. Edition Südkurier, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 , pp. 115–117.
  14. ↑ Heike Thissen: Hörnle-Brünnele. Healthy water for the initiated. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland. Edition Südkurier, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 , pp. 134-137.
  15. ↑ Heike Thissen: Still images. Ignored gentlemen on the banks of the Rhine. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland. Edition Südkurier, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 , pp. 163–166.
  16. ^ Elisabeth Müller-Widmann: Stories from the old Constance. Verlag Gronenberg, Gummersbach 1983, ISBN 3-88265-083-4 , p. 50: image
  17. ↑ Ramona Löffler: The portrait of the monastery founder. In: Südkurier from January 2, 2017.
  18. ↑ Ramona Löffler: Standing city history. In: Südkurier of December 27, 2017.
  19. ^ Franz Domgörgen: On the paths of contemporary art. In: "Südkurier", March 3, 2018.
  20. ↑ Heike Thissen: Frauenpfahl. Sacked with animals and drowned In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland. Edition Südkurier, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 , pp. 46–47.
  21. ^ Eva-Maria Bast: Hecker painting. Of rain and revolutionaries. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland. Edition Südkurier, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 , pp. 64–67.
  22. ↑ Georg Elser Monument in Constance