Gaienhofen Knowpia

Gaienhofen
Gaienhofen
Municipality
	Gaienhofen seen from Switzerland
	Coat of arms
	Location of Gaienhofen within Konstanz district
	Gaienhofen Gaienhofen
	Coordinates: 47°40′59″N 8°58′56″E / 47.68306°N 8.98222°E
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Freiburg
District	Konstanz
Government
• Mayor (2022–30)	Jürgen Maas
Area
• Total	12.55 km2 (4.85 sq mi)
Elevation	425 m (1,394 ft)
Population (2021-12-31)
• Total	3,362
• Density	270/km2 (690/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	78343
Dialling codes	07735
Vehicle registration	KN
Website	www.gaienhofen.de

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 edit

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.^[3]

Twin towns edit

Gaienhofen is twinned with:

Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, France
Balatonföldvár, Hungary

Gallery edit

Stone Age housings (reconstructed) in Unteruhldingen
Chapel in Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen
First house of Hermann Hesse and his first wife Maria Bernoulli (Mia)

References edit

^ Bürgermeisterwahl Gaienhofen 2022, Staatsanzeiger.
^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2021" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2021] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2022.
^ UNESCO World Heritage Site - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps