Meckenbeuren is a municipality in the Bodensee district, in

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, Southern

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. It is located south of

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, and northeast of

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, on

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Geography

Location

Meckenbeuren is located about eight kilometres north of

and ten kilometres south of

in the lower Schussental valley near

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is partially located on Meckenbeuren (Gerbertshaus) territory.

Districts

The municipality of Meckenbeuren includes, in addition to the core town of Obermeckenbeuren (since 1810), the former municipalities incorporated in 1937 and today's districts of Brochenzell and Liebenau (with the hamlets of Brugg, Hegenberg, Hirschach, Knellesberg, Langentrog, Schwarzenbach, Senglingen and Weiler, the farms of Berg, Buch, Furt, Hasenwinkel, Hohenreute, Holzbauer, Hungersberg, Kratzerach, Laufenen, Lohner, Madenreute, Mühlebach, Ottmarsreute, Rebholz, Regulator, Reuter, Sandgrub, Stengele, Straß, Untertennennenmoos and the houses Habacht) as well as the village of Kehlen, which was incorporated in 1972 (with the villages Kehlen and Reute, the hamlets of Buch, Gerbertshaus, Gunzenhaus, Holzreute, Lochbrücke, Sammletshofen, Sassen, Schürten, Schuppenwies, Sibratshaus and Siglishofen, the courtyards Großbuch, Hechelfurt and Schindelhof as well as the houses Schübelbeer).

Demographics

Population development:

Main sights

* Ravensburger Spieleland: a 25 hectare

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in the Liebenau district * Humpismuseum (Humpis Museum) in the Humpisschloss (Humpis Castle) in the Brochenzell district

Gallery

Meckenbeuren Liebenau Ravensburger Spieleland Eingang.jpg, Ravensburger Spieleland (amusement park) Humpisschloss Brochenzell.jpg, Humpisschloss in the Brochenzell district Meckenbeuren Stiftung Liebenau Schloss.jpg, Schloss Liebenau (Liebenau Castle; since 1870, a Catholic nursing home and a school for nurses)

Twin cities

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, since 1991 * Kehlen,

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, since 1993

References

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