Lindau Things to Do

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Mangturm or Mangenturm is another tower in the port-area, 20 meters high, and it was built as a part of the medieval townwall, beeing connected with Diebsturm by a wall.
Between 1180 and 1300 it was used as a lighttower and untill the 19th century it was only possible to enter it over a draw-bridge.
Nowadays you can step up this tower against a small entrancefee and enjoy a great panorama-view.

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Brodlaube is the name of this building with various names and dates printed on its facade, the lastest of them dating back to the year 1386. Brod is obviously an older spelling for Brot/ bread and Laube is the name for an arcade, so this place was used in order to sell bread there.
The "Wegelin Haus zum Pflug" , left of the Brodlaube dates back to the year 1391.
In my last picture: one of the oldest wine-houses of Lindau, dating back to the year 1560.
Interesting to see that all of these houses had their stores right under the roofs, this is why they had such big doors up there.

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Diebsturm was built once as a part of the medieval townwall and it became the prison as well. This tower was also called Malefizturm, Stadtknechtsturm or Körbler and it dates back to the year 1400. Take a closer look at it, even Rapunzel's hair is hanging down from one of the windows of this scenic tower.

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Dont miss to take a walk through the pedestrian zone of the old part of Lindau. Not far from the townhall you will find these buildings with a really interesting architecture.
Lindau has around 24.000 inhabitants nowadays and the first settlers of Lindau built a roman villa there around the year 200 A.D.
Calculate about 2-3 hours for the visit of Lindau at least !

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The Stadtmuseum im Lindau has an interesting facade with some excellent frecoes. Unfortunately I had not enough time to take a look inside, but take a look at their web-page, you will see some really interesting works of art there.

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The new townhall / das Neue Rathaus was built next to the old townhall and it is also not really brand new anymore, but dating back to the year 1706.
There are chimes as well in the facade of the new townhall - you can see them right under the gable of the building.

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The old townhall / das Alte Rathaus was my favorite building in the old part of Lindau, it is dating back to the year 1422 and was renovated many times and so you will see a lot of different styles in decorations and frescoes there on the facade of this building.
In 1578 the outside-stairs and the bay-window was added
In 1885 the gables were restored in the way they look nowadays and also the frescoes in the facade are dating back to that time.
Next to this old townhall a new one was built in 1706.

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Everything about Lindau's harbour is lovely, from the elegance of the lighthouse to the massive statue of the Lion of Bavaria which guards the harbour entrance and the view across the lake to the mountains.
Approaching Lindau from the water is very special, and I would recommend that any visitor does this at least once, even if it means taking a short ferry trip for that express purpose!
When we visited (2005), it was also possible to swim at a Lido on the eastern edge of the harbour - I'm not sure whether it is still possible to do so. This was a strange but enjoyable place, and the waves generated by the ferries as they shuttled in and out of the harbour added an extra, unexpected dimension to the experience. It was a baking hot day, so we lingered in the water as long as possible, and only caught the last ferry back to Meersburg by the skin of our teeth. I can still recall our panic sprinting along the quay towards the imminently departing ferry with our small daughter and her pushchair in our arms as the crew started to draw up its gangplank!