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The Liebesinsel ("Love Island") is a small, uninhabited

island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...

Lake Constance Lake Constance (, ) refers to three bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (''Obersee''), Lower Lake Constance (''Untersee''), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhein (). These ...

in Germany.

Geography

The Liebesinsel is located on the Zeller See, a lake in the Untersee, which itself is part of Lake Constance. It is about 200 metres south of the

peninsula A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is only connected to land on one side. Peninsulas exist on each continent. The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula. Etymology The word ''peninsula'' derives , . T ...

of Mettnau. The island is part of the Mettnau Peninsula Nature Reserve in the borough of Radolfzell am Bodensee. Its area, previously estimated to be between , was precisely determined on 16 January 2012 when the survey office of the District Office of Constance carried out a new survey. According to that survey, the Liebesinsel has an area of , a length of and a width of between . During the original

cadastral survey Cadastral surveying is the sub-field of cadastre and surveying that specialises in the establishment and re-establishment of Real estate, real property boundaries. It involves the physical delineation of property boundaries and determination of dim ...

of the region from 1867 to 1871, the Liebesinsel was surveyed for the first time. In simplified terms, it was represented as an irregular

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and was given an area of 2 morgens and 150 square rods, which is more than twice the area measured in 2012.

History

The island was the location for the 1956 regional film '' Die Fischerin vom Bodensee'' under the direction of

Harald Reinl Harald Reinl (8 July 1908 in Bad Ischl, Austria – 9 October 1986 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain) was an Austrian film director. He is known for the films he made based on Edgar Wallace and Karl May books (see Karl May movies and Edgar Wallace ...

. On the island the night of love of the main characters, Hans ( Gerhard Riedmann) and Maria ( Marianne Hold) was filmed.

References

Literature

* * {{authority control Islands of Baden-Württemberg Uninhabited islands of Germany Islands of Lake Constance in Germany Lindau (district)