Lindau

Lindau is a German city and an island in the eastern part of the Lake Constance, the Obersee. It is located at approximately , in the Bundesland of Bavaria and is also capital of the district of Lindau. The historic city of Lindau is located on the 0,68 km? island which is connected with the mainland by a bridge and a railway dam.

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Remains of an early Roman settlement of the 1st century have been found in the district of Aeschach. The name Lindau was mentioned first by a St. Gallen monk in a document in 882 stating that Graf Adalbert von R?tien had founded a nuns' monastery on the island.

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In 1180 the church St. Stephan was founded. In 1224 the Franciscans founded a monastery on the island. In 1274/75 Lindau became an Imperial Free City under Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph I. In 1528, Lindau accepted the Reformation. After the Thirty Years War, in 1655 the first Lindauer Kinderfest (children's festival) was held in memory of the war time.

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Lake Constance: Lake Constance (also Lake of Constance) is a lake on the Rhine between Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. In German and Alemannic the lake is called Bodensee. In French, the lake's name is Lac de Constance, and in Italian it is Lago di Costanza. It lies approximately at co-ordinates ....