The best hikes from bus stations around Wollmatinger Ried - Untersee - Gnadensee

The path definitely runs through many private properties, so you should also pay attention to the prohibition signs that demarcate private areas. Sometimes the path is also quite narrow and bordered on both sides by trimmed hedges or opaque fences. Nevertheless, it has charm and repeatedly offers great views of the lake shore, the Untersee and as far as Hegau. Incidentally, it provides insights into private garden design ;-)

A monastery with a great past and rich heritage!

beautiful island in Lake Constance

The natural monument "Alte Linde" (Old Linden Tree), also known as the "Mittelzeller Linde" (Mittelzell Linden Tree), stands in the village square (Alemannic: Ergat) and is approximately 700 years old. https://www.baumkunde.de/baumregister/1419-mittelzeller_linde_auf_der_insel_reichenau/

The Minster of St. Mary and St. Mark is the Romanesque former monastery church of Reichenau Monastery and today's Catholic parish church[1] in the Mittelzell district on the island of Reichenau in Lake Constance (Untersee). This minster was the abbey church of the important Benedictine abbey (Latin: Monasterium Augiensis) and is the largest of the three Romanesque churches on the island. On the occasion of the monastery's 1,300th anniversary, Pope Francis elevated the minster to a minor basilica in April 2024. Since 2000, the monastery island of Reichenau, including the minster, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site; in 2003, ten major works of the Reichenau manuscripts were added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register as "unique documents of cultural history that exemplify the collective memory of humanity." To mark the 1300th anniversary, the Great State Exhibition Baden-Württemberg 2024, entitled "World Heritage of the Middle Ages," presented manuscripts and other relics from the island from April to October 2024 at the Baden-Württemberg State Archaeological Museum in Konstanz on Lake Constance and on Reichenau itself. A citizens' project group created the "Reichenau Book of Solidarity 2024" for Reichenau Minster, a continuation of the Reichenau Book of Brotherhood of 824. In 724, the wandering monk Pirmin founded Reichenau Monastery with the help of the Franconian mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, and the Alemannic Duke Lantfrid. According to a founding charter dated April 25, 724, he brought forty monks with him to the island of Reichenau. The first wooden monastery church was built in 724 under the founding abbot Pirmin. Abbot Haito had a Carolingian basilica built on a cruciform ground plan, parts of which still survive today in the crossing and the east transept. It was consecrated on August 16, 816, in honor of the Virgin Mary. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster_St._Maria_und_Markus_(Reichenau-Mittelzell)

The Minster of St. Mary and St. Mark is the Romanesque former monastery church of Reichenau Monastery and today's Catholic parish church[1] in the Mittelzell district on the island of Reichenau in Lake Constance (Untersee). This minster was the abbey church of the important Benedictine abbey (Latin: Monasterium Augiensis) and is the largest of the three Romanesque churches on the island. On the occasion of the monastery's 1,300th anniversary, Pope Francis elevated the minster to a minor basilica in April 2024.[2] Since 2000, the monastery island of Reichenau, including the minster, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site; in 2003, ten major works of the Reichenau manuscripts were added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register as "culturally and historically unique documents that exemplify the collective memory of humanity."[3][4] To mark the 1,300th anniversary, the Great State Exhibition of Baden-Württemberg 2024, entitled World Heritage of the Middle Ages, showed manuscripts and other evidence from the island in the Archaeological State Museum of Baden-Württemberg in Konstanz on Lake Constance and on Reichenau itself from April to October 2024.[5][6] For the Reichenau Minster, a citizens' project group has created the "Reichenau Book of Solidarity 2024" as a continuation of the Reichenau Book of Brotherhood of 824.

World Heritage Reichenau Monastery

One of the smallest communities in Switzerland owes its existence to the Bishop of Constance, Eberhard II. In 1251, he had a double-towered moated castle with a battlement built here. Today, only the two 33m high corner towers remain from the original castle complex. In 1837, the rest was significantly altered when it was converted into a palace. The palace is privately owned and unfortunately it is difficult to see through the trees.