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10 unusual facts about Lake Constance


Al Gromer Khan

Né Alois Gromer, Al Gromer Khan was born on April 8, 1946 at Frauenzell (municipality Altusried/Allgäu) in alpine foothills of Bavaria between Lake Constance and Munich.

Burchard III, Duke of Swabia

In 973, he died and was buried in the chapel of Saint Erasmus in the monastery on Reichenau Island in Lake Constance.

Chris Law

He committed suicide at Lake Constance in 2007 and is survived by two daughters and one son.

FC Hard

FC Hard play their home matches in Waldstadion Hard, which is located in the north of the town near Lake Constance.

Heinrich Vogtherr

As colonel of Hegauer farmers, he was involved in mid 1524 until the end (in July 1525) where they failed siege of cell (Radolfzell) on Lake Constance there.

Murbach Abbey

The founder of the abbey, Count Eberhard, brother of Luitfrid of the Etichonids, brought Bishop Pirmin from Reichenau Abbey on Lake Constance to build up the religious community, which had previously used the Rule of St. Columbanus and become ill-disciplined.

Pfänder

The Pfänder is a mountain in western Austria close to Lake Constance (Bodensee).

SNECMA Atar 101

By September the team were housed at the Dornier factory at Rickenbach near Lindau on Lake Constance and had largely completed design of the ATAR 101 by October 1945.

Warburg hypothesis

Warburg articulated his hypothesis in a paper entitled The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer which he presented in lecture at the meeting of the Nobel-Laureates on June 30, 1966 at Lindau, Lake Constance, Germany.

Weißenbach am Lech

The Romans used to have an important salt trading route from Hall in Tirol to the Lake Constance, which mainly was used until the train was built through the Arlberg in the early 20th century.


Bavarian Border Police

The latter had existed from 1919 to 1934 in the shape of a Bavarian Border Police Commissariat on the borders between Lindau on Lake Constance and Eger.

Bodan-Werft

The company built many of the ferries and other vessels used on the larger lakes of the Alps, including vessels for the White Fleet on Lake Constance, for the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft and the Zürichsee-Fähre Horgen–Meilen on Lake Zurich, and for the Società Navigazione del Lago di Lugano on Lake Lugano.

Brenz Railway

In the 1830s a commission was established on behalf of King William I of Württemberg to investigate whether a railway would be a suitable means to connect the Neckar with Lake Constance and to expedite the movement of goods in Württemberg.

Conrad I, Count of Auxerre

Conrad I the Elder (died 876) was the count of several counties, most notably the Aargau and Auxerre, around Lake Constance, as well as Paris from 859 to 862/4.

Erich Regener

He then founded the private "Research Laboratory for the Physics of the Stratosphere" in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance, which later became a part of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society.

Gams

Additionally, it was on the most important trade route between Chur-Sargans-Lake Constance and was the starting point of the pilgrimage routes to Einsiedeln and Rankweil.

Heinrich Frenkel

Heinrich Sebastian Frenkel (June 5, 1860 Heiden, Switzerland – April 21, 1931 Dresden-Loschwitz) was a Swiss physician and neurologist born in Heiden, a town overlooking Lake Constance.

Hieronymus Harder

Harder was born in Meersburg in the Lake Constance region of Germany, but part of his youth was spent in Bregenz, where his father taught from 1535 onwards.

Libero de Luca

He retired from the stage in 1961, and became a full-time voice teacher in Horn, Switzerland, near Lake Constance, where he died in 1997.

Nagold Valley Railway

Between Calw and Horb, long-distance trains from Stuttgart also ran on the Württemberg Black Forest Railway to Singen and from there to Lake Constance or Schaffhausen.