Konstanz

Konstanz, earlier known as Constance is amongst one of the most beautiful and historical cities of South-Germany. It borders Switzerland and is located on the Lake Bodensee. It is approximately 1 kilometer from the border between Germany and Switzerland which is a convenient geographic fact and helped them well during World War II. Every night when the rest of Germany would have black-outs in a vain effort to avoid Allied bombing missions, the citizens of Konstanz would leave their city brightly lit. And it worked. The Allied forces thought Konstanz was part of Switzerland and it was never bombed. Clever huh!!!!

But history is not our purpose today.

The river Rhine, which comes from the Alps mountain passes through the Bodensee adding to the beauty of the city as on one side of the bridge lies the river Rhine and on the other side is the lake. One can use the ferries to cross the lake and go to the other side of the lake.

There are some beautiful places across the lake like Meersburg and the island Mainau, which are worth seeing places if one visits Konstanz.

Besides being a beautiful place, it excels in academics as well. The University of Konstanz is an Excellence University as it has proved its worth by competing in the Excellence Initiative and has hence become the smallest and youngest University of Excellence. And is also known as a small Harvard at Bodensee…………