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Friedrichshafen is a town on the northern side of Lake Constance
Lake Constance

Under the designation Lake Constance one summarizes the three independent Body of water Obersee , Untersee and Seerhein , lying in the northern Alps foreland....
 (Bodensee) in southern Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, near the borders with Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
 and Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
. It is the district capital (Kreisstadt) of the Bodensee district (Landeskreis) in the federal state
States of Germany

Germany is a federation consisting of sixteen states, known in German language as L?nder . Since Land is the literal German word for "country", the term Bundesl?nder is commonly used colloquially, as it is more specific, though technically incorrect within the corpus of German law....
 (Bundesland) of Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg

Baden-W?rttemberg is one of the 16 States of Germany of the Federal Republic of Germany. Baden-W?rttemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine?but one which has some of its major cities straddling the banks of the Neckar River ....
. Friedrichshafen has a population of c. 58,000.

drichshafen is best known for having been home to the Zeppelin
Zeppelin

For the English rock group, please see Led Zeppelin. For other meanings please see Zeppelin .A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century, based on designs he had outlined in 1874, designs he had detailed in 1893, and that were reviewed by committee in 1894, which h...
 airship
Airship

An airship or dirigible is a aerostat that can be steered and propelled through the air using rudders and propellers or other thrust. Unlike other aerodynamics aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, which produce lift by moving a wing, or airfoil, through the air, aerostatic aircraft, such as airships and Balloon , stay...
 company and the Dornier Flugzeugwerke
Dornier Flugzeugwerke

Dornier Flugzeugwerke was a Germany aircraft manufacturer founded in Friedrichshafen in 1914 by Claudius Dornier. Over the course of its long lifespan, the company produced many notable designs for both the civil and military markets....
 as well as ZF Friedrichshafen AG, manufacturer of transmission systems. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin also called Count Zeppelin) was a German aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin Airship company....
, who was born in Konstanz
Konstanz

Konstanz is a University of Konstanz town of around 80,000 inhabitants at the western end of Lake Constance in the south-west corner of Germany, bordering Switzerland....
 (Constance), originally had his airships built in a floating airship hangar
Airship hangar

Airships are sheltered in airship hangars during construction and sometimes also for regular operation, particularly at bad weather conditions. The big historic, rigid airships needed always to be based in airship hangars because weather protection was crucial for them....
 on the lake which could be aligned with the wind to support the difficult starting procedure.

Visitors can learn more about the history of Zeppelin airships in the large Zeppelin Museum
Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen

There exist further Zeppelin Museums, see Zeppelin MuseumThe Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen at the Lake Constance chronicles the history of the Zeppelin airships in the city where they were born....
 sited near the lakeshore.






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Friedrichshafen is a town on the northern side of Lake Constance
Lake Constance

Under the designation Lake Constance one summarizes the three independent Body of water Obersee , Untersee and Seerhein , lying in the northern Alps foreland....
 (Bodensee) in southern Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, near the borders with Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
 and Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
. It is the district capital (Kreisstadt) of the Bodensee district (Landeskreis) in the federal state
States of Germany

Germany is a federation consisting of sixteen states, known in German language as L?nder . Since Land is the literal German word for "country", the term Bundesl?nder is commonly used colloquially, as it is more specific, though technically incorrect within the corpus of German law....
 (Bundesland) of Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg

Baden-W?rttemberg is one of the 16 States of Germany of the Federal Republic of Germany. Baden-W?rttemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine?but one which has some of its major cities straddling the banks of the Neckar River ....
. Friedrichshafen has a population of c. 58,000.

Zeppelin

Friedrichshafen is best known for having been home to the Zeppelin
Zeppelin

For the English rock group, please see Led Zeppelin. For other meanings please see Zeppelin .A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century, based on designs he had outlined in 1874, designs he had detailed in 1893, and that were reviewed by committee in 1894, which h...
 airship
Airship

An airship or dirigible is a aerostat that can be steered and propelled through the air using rudders and propellers or other thrust. Unlike other aerodynamics aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, which produce lift by moving a wing, or airfoil, through the air, aerostatic aircraft, such as airships and Balloon , stay...
 company and the Dornier Flugzeugwerke
Dornier Flugzeugwerke

Dornier Flugzeugwerke was a Germany aircraft manufacturer founded in Friedrichshafen in 1914 by Claudius Dornier. Over the course of its long lifespan, the company produced many notable designs for both the civil and military markets....
 as well as ZF Friedrichshafen AG, manufacturer of transmission systems. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin also called Count Zeppelin) was a German aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin Airship company....
, who was born in Konstanz
Konstanz

Konstanz is a University of Konstanz town of around 80,000 inhabitants at the western end of Lake Constance in the south-west corner of Germany, bordering Switzerland....
 (Constance), originally had his airships built in a floating airship hangar
Airship hangar

Airships are sheltered in airship hangars during construction and sometimes also for regular operation, particularly at bad weather conditions. The big historic, rigid airships needed always to be based in airship hangars because weather protection was crucial for them....
 on the lake which could be aligned with the wind to support the difficult starting procedure.

Visitors can learn more about the history of Zeppelin airships in the large Zeppelin Museum
Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen

There exist further Zeppelin Museums, see Zeppelin MuseumThe Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen at the Lake Constance chronicles the history of the Zeppelin airships in the city where they were born....
 sited near the lakeshore. In recent years a number of small Zeppelin airships have been constructed using modern technology (Zeppelin NT
Zeppelin NT

Zeppelin NT is a class of airships being manufactured since the 1990s by the German company Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH in Friedrichshafen....
) and these can be booked for sightseeing tours.

Economy

Airship construction in the first third of the 20th century attracted considerable industry and contributed significantly to Friedrichshafen's relative prosperity, yet also exposed the town to air strikes (such as Operation Bellicose
Operation Bellicose

The Operation Bellicose strategic bombing in World War II targeted the Nazi Germany Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and the La Spezia, Italy, naval base and was the first use of shuttle bombing in World War II and the second use of a Operation Chastise....
) by the Allied Forces in the latter part of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 which almost completely destroyed its historical centre. During the war, a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp
Dachau concentration camp

Dachau was a Nazi Germany Nazi concentration camps, and the first one opened in Germany, located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria which is located in southern Germany....
 was located in the town. It provided slave labour for local industry.

Apart from industry and tourism, various regular commercial exhibitions, such as Aero (aviation
Aviation

File:Norwegian military Bell 412SP helicopters.jpgAviation refers to activities involving man-made flying devices , including the people, organizations, and regulatory bodies involved with them....
 technology), InterBoot (water sports) and EuroBike are important economical factors. Furthermore, the Graf-Zeppelin-Haus cultural centre has become a popular location for congresses, conferences, and other events.

Transport


The town enjoys regular-interval train services to Lindau
Lindau

Lindau is a Germany town and an island in the eastern part of the Lake Constance, the Bodensee. It is located in the States of Germany of Bavaria and is also capital of the district of Lindau ....
 and Ulm
Ulm

Ulm is a city in the Germany States of Germany of Baden-W?rttemberg, situated on the River Danube. The city, whose population is estimated at 120,000 , forms an urban district of its own and is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau ....
, as well as to Basel
Basel

Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city . With 731,000 inhabitants in the tri-national metropolitan area , Basel is Switzerland's third-largest urban area....
 in Switzerland.

A car ferry
Ferry

A ferry is a form of transport, usually a boat or ship, used to carry passengers and their vehicles across a body of water. Ferries are also used to transport freight and even railroad cars....
 service links Friedrichshafen to Romanshorn
Romanshorn

Romanshorn is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the district of Arbon in the Cantons of Switzerland of Thurgau in Switzerland.File:Bodensee-Autofaehre.jpg...
 in Switzerland, and various other towns around the lake can also be reached by ferry. Since 2005 a fast ship connection has been in service between Friedrichshafen and Konstanz.

The presence of an expanding local airport
Friedrichshafen Airport

Friedrichshafen Airport is an airport 1.9 miles north of Friedrichshafen, Germany. It is the third biggest airport of the German States of Germany Baden-W?rttemberg, serving approximately 0.6 million passengers in 2005....
 which offers, amongst other services, a daily international connection to London Stansted and Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
 operated by Ryanair
Ryanair

Ryanair is an Ireland Low-cost carrier airline, with headquarters in Dublin International Airport and its largest operational bases at Dublin International Airport and London Stansted Airport....
. It also acts as the hub for the airline carrier InterSky
InterSky

InterSky is a Low-cost carrier based in Bregenz, Austria. It operates scheduled services from Friedrichshafen and charter flights to Corsica, Elba and Majorca in summer and to the Swiss mountains from the United Kingdom during winter....
, which is a factor that has contributed to recent growth in the town.

The nearest big cities are Konstanz
Konstanz

Konstanz is a University of Konstanz town of around 80,000 inhabitants at the western end of Lake Constance in the south-west corner of Germany, bordering Switzerland....
, St. Gallen
St. Gallen

St. Gallen is the capital of the Cantons of Switzerland of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century....
, Ravensburg
Ravensburg

Ravensburg is a town in Upper Swabia in Southern Germany, capital of the Ravensburg , Baden-W?rttemberg. Population: 48,000 .Ravensburg was first mentioned in 1088....
, Ulm
Ulm

Ulm is a city in the Germany States of Germany of Baden-W?rttemberg, situated on the River Danube. The city, whose population is estimated at 120,000 , forms an urban district of its own and is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau ....
, Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, Zurich, and Dornbirn
Dornbirn

Dornbirn is a city in Vorarlberg, Austria. It is the administrative center of the district Dornbirn , which also includes the city of Hohenems, and the market town Lustenau....
.

Amateur Radio

Friedrichshafen is the location for Europe's largest Ham radio convention.

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See also

  • ZF Friedrichshafen AG
  • Dornier GmbH
  • Dornier Consulting
    Dornier Consulting

    Dornier Consulting is an international consulting and project management company that operates in the fields of: traffic, transport, Environment and water....


External links

  • and
  • Local newspaper for Friedrichshafen (in German)