Meckenbeuren
Municipality
Church of St. Mary
Coat of arms
Location of Meckenbeuren within Bodenseekreis district
Meckenbeuren Show map of Germany Meckenbeuren Show map of Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 47°42′00″N 09°33′45″E / 47.70000°N 9.56250°E / 47.70000; 9.56250
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Tübingen
District	Bodenseekreis
Government
• Mayor (2022–30)	Georg Schellinger[1]
Area
• Total	31.90 km2 (12.32 sq mi)
Elevation	435 m (1,427 ft)
Population  (2021-12-31)[2]
• Total	13,651
• Density	430/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	88074
Dialling codes	07542
Vehicle registration	FN
Website	www.meckenbeuren.de

Meckenbeuren is a municipality in the Bodensee district, in Baden-Württemberg, Southern Germany. It is located 10 kilometres (6 miles) south of Ravensburg, and 8 kilometres (5 miles) northeast of Friedrichshafen, on Lake Constance.

Geography

Location

Meckenbeuren is located about eight kilometres north of Friedrichshafen and ten kilometres south of Ravensburg in the lower Schussental valley near Lake Constance.

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:^[3]

Main sights

• Ravensburger Spieleland: a 25 hectare amusement park in the Liebenau district
• Humpismuseum (Humpis Museum) in the Humpisschloss (Humpis Castle) in the Brochenzell district

Gallery

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  Ravensburger Spieleland (amusement park)
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  Humpisschloss in the Brochenzell district
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  Schloss Liebenau (Liebenau Castle)

Twin cities

• Hohwald, Germany, since 1991
• Kehlen, Luxembourg, since 1993

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