Eriskirch is a municipality in the Bodensee district of

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History

Eriskirch was a possession of the Free City of (now

Friedrichshafen Friedrichshafen ( or ; Low Alemannic: ''Hafe'' or ''Fridrichshafe'') is a city on the northern shoreline of Lake Constance (the ''Bodensee'') in Southern Germany, near the borders of both Switzerland and Austria. It is the district capital (''K ...

) until it was annexed by the

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in 1803. In 1810, it was ceded to the

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, whose government assigned the municipality to . That district was reformed in 1938 as , under whose jurisdiction Eriskirch remained. As part of the , Eriskirch was reassigned to the newly organized Bodensee district.

Geography

The municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of Eriskirch is found in the Bodensee district of

, one of the 16 States of the

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. Eriskirch lies at the southeast edge of the district, on the shores of Lake Constance, whose most characterizes the municipal area's landscape. The shore of Lake Constance within Eriskirch's municipal area is covered by an

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. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of

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(NN) to a low of NN by Lake Constance. A portion of the Federally protected

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is located in Eriskirch's municipal area.

Politics

Eriskirch has one borough, Eriskirch, and 16 villages: Braitenrain, Dillmannshof, Gmünd, Hofstatt, Knöbelhof, Langenacker, Mariabrunn, Moos, Oberbaumgarten, Röcken, Schlatt, Schoppenhof, Schussenreute, Unterbaumgarten, Wolfzennen, and Ziegelhaus. In addition, the abandoned villages of Adelshofen, Mönchloh, and Vogelsang are located in the municipal area.

Coat of arms

Eriskirch's

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is divided in half ''party per pale'' into a left,

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and a right,

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half. In the blue

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is a ''

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'', adopted as a municipal motif around 1936. Opposite it is a church, with

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walls and a blue roof, referring to the name of the municipality. This coat of arms was awarded by the provisional post-World War II

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government on 30 June 1952 and again by the Bodensee district office on 10 April 1981. Accompanying the second awarding was a municipal flag.

References

External links

* (in German) {{Authority control Bodenseekreis