The Lake Constance Belt Railway (german: Bodenseegürtelbahn) is a name used for several contiguous railway lines around along the northern shore of

Lake Constance Lake Constance (german: Bodensee, ) refers to three Body of water, 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, ca ...

(''Bodensee'') in southern Germany. It was coined around 1900, when the railway ring around the lake was finished, and consists of the following sections: *

Konstanz Konstanz (, , locally: ; also written as Constance in English) is a university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south of Germany. The city houses the University of Konstanz and was th ...

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Radolfzell Radolfzell am Bodensee is a town in Germany at the western end of Lake Constance approximately 18 km northwest of Konstanz. It is the third largest town, after Constance and Singen, in the district of Konstanz, in Baden-Württemberg. Rado ...

, part of the

High Rhine Railway The High Rhine Railway (german: Hochrheinbahn) is the Deutsche Bahn railway line from Basel to Singen. It is also part of the tri-national S-Bahn Basel and referenced as . It was built by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways as part of the Bad ...

(opened in 1863) * Radolfzell– Stahringen, part of the

Radolfzell–Mengen railway The Radolfzell–Mengen railway (also called in German the Hegau-Ablachtal-Bahn—Hegau–Ablach Valley Railway) is a branch line in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It runs from Radolfzell via Stockach to Mengen. The line was built as a m ...

(opened in 1867) * Stahringen–Friedrichshafen Stadt (opened in 1895–1901) * Friedrichshafen Stadt–Lindau-Aeschach Abzw (opened in 1899) * Lindau-Aeschach Abzw–Lindau-Insel, part of the

Buchloe–Lindau railway The Buchloe–Lindau railway is a double-track, largely non-electrified main line in the German state of Bavaria. It runs through the Allgäu from Buchloe to Lindau in Lake Constance via Kaufbeuren and Kempten. Together with the connecting Munich� ...

(opened in 1854) * Lindau-Insel–Wolfurt-Lauterach Nord, part of the Lindau–Bludenz railway (opened in 1872) * Wolfurt-Lauterach Nord–St. Margrethen (opened in 1873) * St. Margrethen–Rorschach, part of the Chur–Rorschach railway (opened in 1858) * Rorschach–Konstanz, part of the

Lake Line The Lake Line
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(opened in 1869–1871) The lines mostly run parallel to the shore, only the Konstanz–Ludwigshafen, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen–Fischbach and Bregenz–Staad sections run through the hinterland. Today the term is only used for the German line from Radolfzell via Friedrichshafen to Lindau.

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