Bodanrück

Geographical location

The Bodanrück than Molasserücken a 112 km ² and a maximum of 693.4 m above sea level. NN high peninsula that divides the north-western part of Lake Constance in the Überlinger sea and submarine. It is located in the district of Konstanz in the south of Baden- Württemberg ( Germany ). In the narrower sense, under the Bodanrück the higher-lying parts of the peninsula.

Geography

Geographical location

The Bodanrück lies between the Lake Überlingen in the Northeast and the submarine in the southwest; The latter is divided into the peninsula near Seeteile Gnadensee and Markelfinger angles and in the peninsula remote part of the lake Zeller See. East will follow as the main part of Lake Constance, the upper lake. West is the Hegau, a mountainous and hilly landscape. At the edges of Bodanrück are Bodman -Ludwigshafen in the north, constancy in the southeast, Allen Bach in the south and in the west Radolfzell. In front of the Bodanrück is on the northeast side of the island Mainau in the south of the island of Reichenau.

The peninsula was described by Alfred Benzing as a headland. In many places can be enjoyed from the foothills of the peninsula good views including on the adjacent lake. Scenic spectacular are the canyons to the northeast, where the Bodanrück steeply to Lake Überlingen: the Marie Canyon, which has around 100 meters deep on the Molasse, St. Catherine's Canyon and the " Echotal " the sticks hole. If one called here in a semicircular alcove, comes from a Molassewand in about 60 m away from an echo back. Orchards and pastures, forests and various marsh and reed areas dominate the landscape. Near Radolfzell extends as the largest lake in the peninsula of Mindelsee.

Mountains

With 693.4 m above sea level. NN rises the Bodanrück at Bodman maximum of 298.2 m above the level ( 395.2 m above sea level. NN ) of the upper lake. This mountain and further surveys and their offshoots include - sorted by height in meters ( m) above mean sea level ( MSL ):

• Unnamed knoll ( 693.4 m), south of Bodman, about 600 m southeast of the farm forest floor
• Miihlberg ( 672.7 m ) west-southwest of Bodman, about 900 m southeast of the farm Rehmhof
• Brandenberg ( 541.7 m), 650 m west-northwest of Allen Bach Freudenthal
• Gallen mountain ( 537 m ), 600 m southeast of Langenrain
• Schwarzenberg ( 514.8 m), 1.4 km southwest of Konstanz Oberndorf
• Bommern ( 492.4 m), 1.1 km north-west of Allen Bach Kaltenbrunn
• Homberg ( 487.3 m), 2.2 km east-southeast of Markelfingen
• Mount Tabor ( 473.3 m), just north of Konstanz Furstenberg
• Lettenberg ( 466.1 m), 1.9 km north-northwest of Allen Bach

Conservation area

The protected landscape area " Bodanrück " is the second largest of 16 in the district of Konstanz. It was first reported in July 1966 and has since expanded several times, now it covers a total area of 55.12 km ². To the north it borders on the 10.13 km ² nature reserve " Lake Constance " at Bodman ( LSG 3.35.011 ) and Wallenhausen ( LSG 3.35.003 ), which includes three parts at Constance, for example on the island of Mainau belong. Lie the villages Wallenhausen, Dingelsdorf, Litzelstetten, Wollmatingen, Allen Bach, Markelfingen, Radolfzell and Stahringen At the edges of the protected area. The villages Güttingen, Möggingen Liggeringen, Langenrain, Freudenthal, cold Brunn, Dettingen, Oberndorf and Hegne are largely or completely enclosed by him.

Attractions

Other attractions include the Bodanrück next to the canyons to the northeast and those in the villages:

• The Wildlife and Leisure Park Allensbach (also called " Wild and leisure park Bodanrück "), and 75 ha in size, with over 350 animals in 20 species
• The courtyard Wallenhausen, former forester's house above the Lake Überlingen, built in 1661 next to the ruins of the old castle Tettingen Minstrel Henry of Tettingen

Traffic

Along the southwestern shore of Bodanrück leads the federal highway 33, which connects Radolfzell in the northwest over Allensbach with Constance in the south-east. From their federal highway 34 branches, which extends approximately in the southwest-northeast direction to Bodman -Ludwigshafen in the transition region to the Hegau of Radolfzell. Of these roads branch off several leading into the landscape state and county roads.

Along the south-western shore of the peninsula, the section Radolfzell - Allensbach Constance runs the Black Forest Railway. In the transition region to Hegau Lake Constance Belt course is laid out in approximately southwest-northeast direction of the section Radolfzell -Ludwigshafen that there 's sharing a piece with the hegau Ablachtal - route (section Radolfzell - Wahlwies ).

Southeast of the Bodanrück the ferry terminal is for the car ferry between the situated on the peninsula Konstanz - Staad and located on the northern shore of Lake Constance Meersburg. The island of Mainau, can be reached to the ships of the White Fleet of Constance, Meersburg, Überlingen Unteruhldingen or from, as the northern Bodanrück - towns Dingelsdorf, Wallenhausen, Bodman and Marie Canyon.

There is also a regular bus service and a well-marked network of bicycle paths.

Film

• Picture book Germany: Am Bodensee - The Bodanrück in the seasons. Documentation, 45 minutes, written and directed by Willy Meyer, Production: SWR