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Das sagen aber auch nur die Schwaben, in Bayern heißt der See auch bayrisches Meer. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.57.208.106 (talk) 19:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC).
I would cut the comment about the 'Swabian Sea' being illogical. First: it is a really big lake which is like a sea. Second: it isn't true that Swabians don't live beside it. They do. The area to the immediate north of the lake is 'Oberschwaben' (Upper Swabia). It is true that the southern edge is Swiss, and the western half of the northern shore has traditionally been part of Baden rather than of Swabia ('Württemberg'), but the eastern half of the northern shore has always been Swabian. I would guess that many in the western half would nowadays think of themselves as Swabians too. Vronks (talk) 15:11, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
"The lake is also colloquially known as the Swabian Sea[1] (das schwäbische Meer), which is somehow missleading since obviousely not a sea and there are no swabians living on the lake's shore." The latter part of this statement is false! They do live on the lake's shore, many of those beach bums! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.247.153.16 (talk) 04:35, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
The German version seems to be quite a bit better. I am going to work on translating what I can of it to merge some of the useful stuff here.--66.153.117.118 (talk) 20:58, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
476 km² + 61 km² + 63 km² = 571 km²? Strange math!
According to http://www.bodenseekonferenz.org/21885/Service/DieRegion/index.aspx size is 473 km² (main) + 63 km² (Untersee) = 536 km². Überlinger See is only another name for the north-western part of the main lake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.19.88.254 (talk) 09:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
it says: "The freshwater lake sits at 395 m above sea level and is Central Europe's third largest, after Lake Balaton and Lake Geneva."
well.. Lake Geneva is much smaller than Lake Constance .. so Lake Constanze should be the "SECOND largest .., followed by Lake Geneva" 79.234.83.74 (talk) 13:22, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
A map that shows the broad outline of Germany, Austria and Switzerland and how L. Constance lies in that niche. The maps here are nice for seeing the details of the lake and towns on it, but you don't get a feel for the lake in terms of the 3 countries and location within Europe itself. Basically something similar to the map on the page for Konstanz (town of Constance), but showing all three countries at size, not just Germany. I would add one, but I don't know how. BTW, it seems in general that wikipedia is weak on maps. TCO (talk) 17:49, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
What is the historical reason of calling it the Bodensee? "Bottom lake", "floor/ground lake", or at the bottom of the Rhine River or what? Anyone know? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.84.82.56 (talk) 06:06, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
Wow! Great explanation. Does the fact that perhaps the word/place name went from dialect/alemanic German to Hochdeutsch have anything to do with the modern name used now? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.84.185.82 (talk) 15:09, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
Peninsula between Untersee and Überlinger See is called "Bodanrück" ManfredV (talk) 19:31, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
On google maps there are borders. Google doesn't show some kind of condominium. Did they simply draw these borders themselves or are there any further agreements concerning the borders? Johnny2323 (talk) 20:59, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
It says lake Constance covers 536 km^2, and is on average 90 m deep. This would make its volume 536*0.09 = 48 km^3. But the article says 10^10 m^3 (= 10 km^3). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.160.8.189 (talk) 13:19, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Is the quote "Lake Constance is the only area in Europe where no borders exist, because there is no legally binding agreement as to where the borders lie between Switzerland, Germany and Austria" factually correct - it would seem to contradict the information given in the Republic_of_Ireland–United_Kingdom_border#Waters_around_Northern_Ireland article regarding unresolved UK/Republic of Ireland borders.
92.10.38.115 (talk) 22:05, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
The list is incomplete. There are some more, f.e. Vogelinsel near Lindau, Vogelinseln/Dorniermole near Immenstaad, Wollsäuliinsel at Kreuzlingen ManfredV (talk) 19:27, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
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User:TheCarlos1975 boldly changed the leading paragraph several times changing the primarily longstanding geographical focus to a national one, pronouncing mainly a national POV. I don't see a good reason to do so. The geographical description follows of course the flow of water. He is invited to argue about a better solution here. And he is asked to adhere to the WP:BRD policy. -- ZH8000 (talk) 01:53, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
In the article it says the Untersee was called Lacus Acronius and the Obersee was called Lacus Venetus, but in the 1540 map that is shown (and other historic maps I can find), it has it the other way around. --Lasunncty (talk) 11:18, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
@Tobyc75: I agree that "Austria map only shows a tiny corner of the lake, which is shared between multiple countries". The point of the pushpinmap is to help orient people unfamiliar with the location to have a better idea where it may be and even with a partial display it serves that point, but it can be better and it should be. Could you suggest a better pushpin map to use, else it will go into the queue of needs better pushpin map than country level. CheersWolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? (talk) 13:35, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
I edited "waterbodies" to be "bodies of water" and it was reverted with the note that "waterbodies is a perfectly valid English word." I'm a native English speaker, and I've never heard it. Just in case, I checked all the online English dictionaries and couldn't find it. I don't want to get into an edit war over something so silly, so I'm putting this note here instead. --Sam (talk) 00:04, 21 July 2020 (UTC)