The index of places
The settings.
Lake Constance isn’t one place but a dozen very different ones. This is what each of them offers photographically — when the light stands, where it stays quiet, and what the schedule has to allow for.
I live in Lindau. That isn’t a marketing line but the reason I’m under an hour from most places on this lake — and why I know when the sun stands over which shore.
These pages aren’t travel guides. They are what I would tell a couple on the phone when they ask: “Does our schedule work for this place?”
Bavarian shore
Lindau on Lake Constance
Home baseThe island, the harbour, the evening light
Late afternoons from May to September, blue hour at the harbour
Wasserburg on Lake Constance
A peninsula pointing into the water
Early summer, late afternoon
Nonnenhorn & Kressbronn
Wine, orchards, shallow shore
Early summer and September, the last hour before sunset
Württemberg shore
Langenargen
Montfort Castle and the wide shoreline
Afternoon into sunset
Friedrichshafen
Wide promenade, harbour, clear lines
Evening hours; overcast days for soft light
Meersburg
The town on the slope, above the water
Late afternoon; harvest season in September
Überlingen
Shore park, town moat, quiet water
Spring and early autumn, evening light
Immenstaad & Hagnau
Orchards down to the shore
Blossom in April; evening light in high summer
Baden shore
Vorarlberg
Allgäu
Further afield
Inquiry
Are you celebrating in one of these places?
Tell me where your day takes place — I’ll tell you honestly what works there and what the schedule needs to allow.