Lake Constance Belt Railway

The Lake Constance Belt Railway (German: Bodenseegürtelbahn) is a name used for several contiguous railway lines around along the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in southern Germany.[1][2][3] It was coined around 1900, when the railway ring around the lake was finished, and consists of the following sections:

* Konstanz–Radolfzell, part of the High Rhine Railway (opened in 1863)
* Radolfzell–Stahringen, part of the Radolfzell–Mengen railway (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 (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 (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.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Bodensee". Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon (in German). 1905. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
2. ^ "Bodensee". Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon (in German). 1911. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
3. ^ Freiherr von, Röll (1912). "Württembergische Eisenbahnen". Enzyklopädie des Eisenbahnwesens (in German). p. 436. Retrieved 16 January 2022.