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Konstanz

Konstanz is a city in southern . It lies on the border with Switzerland and on between Obersee and Untersee, exactly where the river Rhine exits the lake.
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  • Type: Town with 85,700 residents
  • Description: city in Germany
  • Also known as: “Constance”
  • Historically known as: “Costanz” and “Costanza”
  • Postal code: 78432
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Petershausen Abbey and Konstanz station.

Museum
Photo: Gabriel Bucelin, Public domain.
was a Benedictine imperial abbey at Petershausen, now a district of Konstanz in , .

Railway station
Photo: Renardo la vulpo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the largest passenger station in the German city of Konstanz. It is served by regional and long-distance services operated by Deutsche Bahn and Swiss Federal Railways.

Photo: DKrieger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a statue at the entrance of the harbour of Konstanz, , commemorating the Council of Constance that took place there between 1414 and 1418.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kreuzlingen and Paradies.

Town
Photo: Pingelig, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of in the canton of in north-eastern . It is the seat of the district and is the second-largest city of the canton, after , with a population of about 22,000.

Suburb
is a former village, now a quarter of Konstanz, . The district is located west of the Old Town on the southern shore of the Seerhein; with an area of about 63.2 hectare and 6176 inhabitants.

Village
Photo: Berger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of in .

Konstanz

Latitude
47.6592° or 47° 39′ 33″ north
Longitude
9.1751° or 9° 10′ 30″ east
Population
85,700
Elevation
402 metres (1,319 feet)
IATA airport codes
KNC and QKZ
United Nations Location Code
DE KON
Open location code
8FVFM55G+M2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1636999091
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2885679
Wiki­data ID
Q3834
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Konstanz” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Konstanz”
  • Arabic: “كونستانس”
  • Aragonese: “Gostanza”
  • Aragonese: “Konstanz”
  • Armenian: “Կոնստանց”
  • Arpitan: “Konstanz”
  • Asturian: “Konstanz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Konstanz”
  • Basque: “Konstantza”
  • Bavarian: “Konstanz”
  • Belarusian: “Канстанц”
  • Belarusian: “Констанц”
  • Breton: “Konstanz”
  • Bulgarian: “Констанц”
  • Catalan: “Constança”
  • Cebuano: “Konstanz (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Konstanz”
  • Chechen: “Констанц”
  • Chinese: “康士坦茲”
  • Chinese: “康斯坦茨”
  • Corsican: “Konstanz”
  • Croatian: “Konstanz”
  • Czech: “Kostnice”
  • Danish: “Konstanz”
  • Dutch: “Konstanz”
  • Esperanto: “Konstanco”
  • Esperanto: “Konstanz”
  • Estonian: “Konstanz”
  • Finnish: “Konstanz”
  • French: “Constance”
  • Friulian: “Konstanz”
  • Galician: “Constanza”
  • Galician: “Konstanz”
  • Georgian: “კონსტანცი”
  • German: “Constanz”
  • German: “Konstanz”
  • German: “Costnitz” (historical)
  • German: “Kostnitz” (historical)
  • Greek: “Κωνστάντζα”
  • Greek: “Κωνσταντία”
  • Hebrew: “קונסטנץ”
  • Hindi: “कॉन्स्टेंस”
  • Hungarian: “Konstanz”
  • Icelandic: “Konstanz”
  • Ido: “Konstanz”
  • Indonesian: “Konstanz”
  • Interlingua: “Konstanz”
  • Interlingue: “Konstanz”
  • Irish: “Constance”
  • Irish: “Konstanz”
  • Italian: “Costanza”
  • Japanese: “コンスタンツ”
  • Japanese: “コンスタンツ郡”
  • Kazakh: “Констанц”
  • Kongo: “Konstanz”
  • Korean: “콘스탄츠”
  • Kurdish: “Konstanz”
  • Ladin: “Konstanz”
  • Latin: “Constantia”
  • Latvian: “Konstanca”
  • Ligurian: “Konstanz”
  • Limburgan: “Konstanz”
  • Lithuanian: “Konstancas”
  • Lombard: “Costansa”
  • Low German: “Konstanz”
  • Luxembourgish: “Konstanz”
  • Macedonian: “Констанц”
  • Malagasy: “Konstanz”
  • Malay: “Konstanz”
  • Minangkabau: “Konstanz”
  • Narom: “Konstanz”
  • Neapolitan: “Konstanz”
  • Northern Frisian: “Konstanz (Stää)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Konstanz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Konstanz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Konstanz”
  • Norwegian: “Konstanz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Constança”
  • Ossetian: “Констанц”
  • Persian: “کنستانتس”
  • Picard: “Konstanz”
  • Piemontese: “Konstanz”
  • Polish: “Konstancja”
  • Portuguese: “Constança”
  • Portuguese: “Konstanz”
  • Pushto: “کونستانز”
  • Romanian: “Constanța”
  • Romanian: “Konstanz”
  • Romansh: “Konstanz”
  • Russian: “Констанц”
  • Sanskrit: “कॉन्स्टांज़्”
  • Sardinian: “Konstanz”
  • Scots: “Konstanz”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Konstanz”
  • Serbian: “Konstanz”
  • Serbian: “Констанц”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Konstanz”
  • Sicilian: “Costanza”
  • Silesian: “Konstanz”
  • Slovak: “Konstanz”
  • Slovak: “Kostnica”
  • Slovenian: “Konstanca, Nemčija”
  • Slovenian: “Konstanca”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کونستانتس”
  • Spanish: “Constanza”
  • Swahili: “Konstanz”
  • Swedish: “Konstanz”
  • Swiss German: “Konschdanz”
  • Swiss German: “Konstanz”
  • Tatar: “Констанц”
  • Telugu: “కాన్స్టంస్”
  • Thai: “ค็อนชตันทซ์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Konstanz”
  • Tumbuka: “Konstanz”
  • Turkish: “Constance”
  • Turkish: “Konstanz”
  • Ukrainian: “Констанц”
  • Urdu: “کونسٹانس”
  • Uzbek: “Konstanz”
  • Venetian: “Konstanz”
  • Vietnamese: “Konstanz”
  • Vlaams: “Konstanz”
  • Volapük: “Konstanz”
  • Walloon: “Konstanz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Konstanz”
  • Welsh: “Konstanz”
  • Western Frisian: “Konstanz (stêd)”
  • Western Frisian: “Konstanz”
  • Wolof: “Konstanz”
  • Wu Chinese: “康斯坦茨”
  • Yue Chinese: “康斯坦茨”
  • Zeeuws: “Konstanz”
  • Zulu: “Konstanz”
  • “Constanz”
  • “Konstanz”

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