Bodman-Ludwigshafen

Bodman-Ludwigshafen is a municipality in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany, located on the most western shore of Lake Überlingen, the north-western part of the Upper Lake of Lake Constance (German: Bodensee). The municipality consist of the two separate villages Bodman and Ludwigshafen on each side of Lake Überlingen. In 1975, the former municipalities Ludwigshafen am Bodensee and Bodman united to the current administrative situation. The German term for Lake Constance, Bodensee, derives from Bodman.

The Agnus Dei sect is based at the old Frauenberg Monastery (Burg Frauenberg) near Bodman-Ludwigshafen.

World heritage site

It is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.^[3]

Twin towns

Bodman-Ludwigshafen is twinned with:

Mügeln, Germany, since 2000

People

Johannes Wolfgang von Bodman (1651–1691), German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop
Franz von und zu Bodman (1835–1906), German politician
Sophie Ley (1849–1918), German painter
Nikolaus Bodman (1903–1988), German nobleman, ornithologist, and bird conservationist

References

^ Bürgermeisterwahl Bodman-Ludwigshafen 2023, Staatsanzeiger. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
^ UNESCO World Heritage Site - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bodman-Ludwigshafen.

(in German) Official website
(in German) Bodman-Ludwigshafen: History & Information