Überlingen is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg near the border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second-largest city in the Bodenseekreis (district), and a central point for the outlying communities. Since 1 January 1993, Überlingen has been categorized as a large district city.
Überlingen
Überlingen 1640–50, engraving by Mathäus Merian
Überlingen with Lake Constance in the background
Überlingen c. 1900
Lake Constance refers to three bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (Obersee), Lower Lake Constance (Untersee), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Lake Rhine (Seerhein). These waterbodies lie within the Lake Constance Basin in the Alpine Foreland through which the Rhine flows.
Satellite image
Saints Columbanus and Gallus on Lake Constance, from a 15th-century manuscript
Complete lake from the Winterstaude
Lake Constance with the Island of Lindau seen from the Pfänder in 2007