Zeppelin path

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The twelve-kilometer-long Zeppelin Path is intended to make the history of the Baden-Württemberg city ​​of Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance in the 20th century, the focus of which is the history of the Zeppelin Foundation , tangible at nine stations and - like the Maybach Path  - the offer of Complete the Friedrichshafen history trail.

In 1908, Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin set up a foundation with whose funds the Zeppelin Group was built. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary, the Zeppelin path was set up in 2008, which indicates the history of Friedrichshafen on information boards at the nine stations. The path begins on the western outskirts at the brickworks or the Grenzhof. The Zeppelin path continues over the industrial site in Manzell and the city center to Friedrichshafen Airport .

The stations

On the boards at the nine stations, the history of the Zeppelin Foundation is explained with texts and pictures, including the development of the Kurgartenhotel, Kurhaus and townscape, the foundation's participation in the foundation's operations and the transfer of the royal Manzell domain by King Wilhelm II of Württemberg to the Count of Zeppelin.

Station 1: Brickyard / Grenzhof

Station 1: brickworks

On the former border of the states of Baden and Württemberg , on the Grenzbach between the Friedrichshafen district of Fischbach and the municipality of Immenstaad, there is a brickyard, first mentioned in 1834, on the Grenzhof site . The raw material, the clay , was delivered on a narrow-gauge railway from the clay pits north of today's B 31 . The gradual expansion of the mechanized system began in 1887, and in 1906 a 300 meter long loading dock was built into Lake Constance . In 1918, Zeppelin-Wohlfahrt GmbH, a company of the Zeppelin Foundation, took over the brick factory, which had since been expanded to include a social building, modernized it and from then on mainly produced roof and wall tiles, hollow bricks and molded chimney bricks . After the brick factory was not dismantled by the French occupying forces after the end of the Second World War , production of the bricks, which were so important for the reconstruction , began as early as 1946 . In 1976 the company was shut down. The Seewerk torpedo test facility of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH, an operation of the Zeppelin Foundation , was built in the immediate vicinity in the Immenstaad district in 1943 . The site was taken over by the Dornier works in 1958 and is now an important location for Airbus Defense and Space . Coordinates "Grenzhof"

Station 2: Manzell industrial site

Coordinates "Industrial site Manzell" ; today:Domain Street

Station 3: Graf-Zeppelin-Haus (Kurhaus and Kurgartenhotel)

Coordinates "Graf-Zeppelin-Haus"

Station 4: promenade

The waterfront promenade (French: promener ~ walking) was planned by the city up to 1909 and financed in advance by means of the Zeppelin Foundation in the following years. The " Deutsches Haus " hotel , the city ​​train station inaugurated in 1847 , the post office opened in 1853 and the privately donated Zeppelin fountain in 1908 were located in the wider area of ​​the now representative bank area . In 1985, the thirteen-meter-high Zeppelin memorial was added to the Stadtgarten . It is reminiscent of Count Zeppelin and his famous saying “You just have to want and believe in it, then it will succeed.” Coordinates "Uferpromenade"

Station 5: Maybachstrasse

Zeppelin-Wohlfahrt GmbH was founded on September 23, 1913. In the same year she bought a piece of land north of the Riedlewald on Siegerstrasse , on which the Zeppelin village, in which the steadily increasing number of workers found appropriate accommodation, was built. In 1915 the single home and in 1917 the hall building (dining establishment or cultural center) was established. The housing shortage increased after the end of the First World War , so that the Zeppelin-Wohlfahrt implemented plans to develop the Stockwiesen district . In September 1947 Siegerstrasse was renamed Maybachstrasse .
Coordinates "Maybachstraße"

Station 6: Zeppelin shipyard area

Station 7: Zeppelindorf

Information board and bust of the Count of Zeppelin in front of the Zeppelin village

With the construction between 1914 and 1919, the Zeppelin-Wohlfahrt GmbH with the Zeppelindorf provided the workers who were increasingly moving to Friedrichshafen with adequate living space. The settlement consisted of single, double and terraced houses, a “consumer establishment”, the Zeppelin butcher's shop, and an inn and was directly connected to the factory premises by a connecting road.
The Zeppelin village, which was badly damaged during the Second World War, is still owned by the Zeppelin charity , is considered a “garden city” and is now a cultural monument of particular importance.
Coordinates "Zeppelindorf"

Station 8: Gear Factory Friedrichshafen (ZF)

Station 9: Friedrichshafen Airport

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