Entlibühl or Äntebüel, formerly also Koschmannskeller KopfEugen Baumann: Die Vegetation des Untersees (Bodensee). Eine floristisch-kritische und Biologische Studie. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1911
p. 43 was a small

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in the Untersee, part of

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. It lies around off the

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shore below

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in the

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. The island is shown on historical maps by the

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from 1966 to 1995, off the western boundary of the municipality of Gottlieben with its former neighbour, Triboltingen (1975 incorporated into

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). From 2003 the name ''Äntebüel'' is found on the map in dark blue lettering surrounded by an enclosed isobar, i.e., designating a hydrographical object such as a

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s. A cytometric measurement of the former island gives a length from east to west of , a maximum width of and an area of around or 0.11

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s. The name ''Äntebüel'' means 'bank in the water on which ducks like to rest'.ortsnamen.ch: Äntebüel
/ref> The island consisted mainly of sea chalk (''Schnegglisand''). In a 1911 publication it stated:

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