Horn (Gaienhofen)
Gaienhofen is a municipality in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is located at the border with Switzerland.
Since 1974, Gaienhofen consists of four villages: Gaienhofen, Gundholzen, Hemmenhofen and Horn. Attractions, apart from the Lake of Constance, include the Hermann-Hesse-Höri-Museum and the Museum Haus Dix.
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 UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Twin towns
Gaienhofen is twinned with:
Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, France
Balatonföldvár, Hungary
See also
Gallery
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Stone Age housings (reconstructed) in Unteruhldingen -
Chapel in Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen -
First house of Hermann Hesse and his first wife Maria Bernoulli (Mia)
References
- ^ Bürgermeisterwahl Gaienhofen 2022, Staatsanzeiger.
- ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
- ^ UNESCO World Heritage Site - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
External links
Media related to Gaienhofen at Wikimedia Commons
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