Bodman-Ludwigshafen is a municipality in the district of

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 ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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, located on the most western shore of

Lake Überlingen Lake Überlingene.g. see Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang and Irina P. Chubarenko. "Trasverse Internal Wave Motion in Lake Überlingen" in ''Physics of Lakes: Volume 2: Lakes as Oscillators''. London: Springer, 2011, p. 179. (Standard German of ...

, the north-western part of the Upper Lake of Lake Constance (german: Bodensee). The municipality consist of the two separate villages Bodman and Ludwigshafen on each side of Lake Überlingen. In 1975, the former municipalities ''Ludwigshafen am Bodensee'' and ''Bodman'' united to the current administrative situation. The German term for Lake Constance, Bodensee, derives from Bodman.

World heritage site

It is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the

Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps are a series of prehistoric pile dwelling (or stilt house) settlements in and around the Alps built from about 5000 to 500 BC on the edges of lakes, rivers or wetlands. In 2011, 111 sites located variousl ...

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.UNESCO World Heritage Site - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
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Twin towns

Bodman-Ludwigshafen is twinned with: *

Mügeln Mügeln is a town in the district Nordsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is located 9 km southwest of Oschatz and 14 km northwest of Döbeln. The town has a population of approximately 4700 people. Geography Mügeln lies almost equidista ...

, Germany, since 2000

References

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Bodman-Ludwigshafen: History & Information
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