Key facts
- Location
- Lake Constance
- Area
- 4.3 km (1.7 sq mi)
- State
- Baden-Württemberg
- District
- Freiburg
- Official website
- www.reichenau.de
- Official name
- Monastic Island of Reichenau
- Type
- Cultural
- Criteria
- iii, iv, vi
- Designated
- 2000 (24th session )
- Region
- Europe and North America
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
Reichenau Island ( German: [ˈʁaɪçənaʊ] ) is an island in Lake Constance in Southern Germany. It lies almost due west of the city of Konstanz, between the Gnadensee and the Untersee, two parts of Lake Constance. With a total land surface of 4.3 km (1.7 sq mi) and a circumference of 11 km (6.8 mi), the island is 4.5 km (2.8 mi) long and 1.5 km (0.93 mi) wide at its greatest extent. The highest point, the Hochwart, stands some 43 m (141 ft) above the lake surface and 438.7 m (1,439 ft) above mean sea level.
Reichenau is connected to the mainland by a causeway, completed in 1838, which is intersected between the ruins of Schopflen Castle and the eastern end of Reichenau Island by a 10-metre-wide (33 ft) and 95-metre-long (312 ft) waterway, the Bruckgraben. A low road bridge allows the passage of ordinary boats but not of sailing-boats.