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	Mainau Island, Lake Constance, Germany - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Mainau is an island in Lake Constance (on the south shore of the Überlinger See, near the city of Konstanz), at approximately 47°42′N, 9°12′E. It is maintained as a garden island and a model of excellent environmental practices.
		The island belongs to the Lennart Bernadotte-Stiftung (in English, the Lennart Bernadotte Foundation), an entity created by the late Lennart, Count Bernadotte af Wisborg, formerly a Prince of Sweden and Duke of Småland.
		Mainau bay is the location of the university sailing club, and many small sailboats add to the scenery in summer.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /germany_mainau_island.htm (360 words)

	Count Lennart Bernadotte \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The death was announced by the foundation he formed to administer the 96-acre island, which had been in and out of the possession of the Swedish crown since the end of the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century.
		The island's balmy climate – rare for Europe north of the Alps – inspired its owners in the mid-1800s to cultivate rare plants and start an arboretum, an Italian rose garden and an orangery.
		He withdrew from daily operations of the island in the 1980s and entrusted the island and everything on it to the Lennart Bernadotte Foundation, which the couple formed in 1974.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050116/news_lz1j16count.html (398 words)

	Mainau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mainau is an island in Lake Constance (on the south shore of the Überlinger See, near the city of Constance), at approximately 47°42′ N 9°12′ E.
		The owner of the island is the Swedish Count Bernadotte, former Royal Prince of Sweden and Duke of Smalandia.
		The Mainau bay is where the university sailing club is located.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mainau (222 words)

	Insel Mainau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mainau was once the property of the Teutonic Knights.
		The only remnant of that period is this Teutonic cross that was left behind when the Knights were driven from the island by Swedish invaders during the 30 Years War.
		It now is the first thing that greets visitors to the island as it stands at the entrance to the bridge from the mainland to the island.
	cloud.prohosting.com /ibawolf/Germany2000/Mainau1.html (110 words)

	GARDENA Erlebnis Life in the Garden
		Count Lennart Bernadotte, who was bequeathed the island in 1932, transformed the dilapidated refuge into a flower and plant paradise that is now one of Europe’s most beautiful parks.
		The island’s unique location, the combination of castle grounds and botanical garden, its history and the beautiful Baroque castle all add to magical attraction.
		Tavola verde(R) is a monumental plant-bedecked table in the centre of the arboretum in impressive vicinity to the majestic sequoias and an invitation to enjoy life al fresco.
	www.gardena.com /INT/DE/en/content/erlebnis/a_03_04_2006-11_en.jsp (343 words)

	Domus Cygna - Non-Mythic History
		Numerous monastery and administrative buildings and courtyards were built on the thriving monastery island and still mark the appearance of the island in the lake to this day.
		Around 3000 BC The settlement consisting of six houses, which was discovered at the southern shores of the Mainau during the thirties of the last century, belong to this time of early settlement in the region of Lake Constance.
		The Mainau is given to the powerful monastery of the Reichenau as a present, together with several strips of land on Southern side of the Bodanrück.
	www.domuscygna.com /data/History.html (2789 words)

	Week 1 - Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mainau is a beautiful botanical garden island with a castle and church on it.
		Mainau is one of the only places in Europe where palm trees can grow year round.
		After a morning and partial afternoon at the island of Mainau, we came back for playing and swimming at the Bodensee.
	www.cosrock.org /wiltjk/Week-1-Germany.htm (990 words)

	Lake Constance
		Mainau Island is a must see attraction even if you miss most of the other sights.
		This is commonly referred to as the Salad Island because of all the vegetables grown on the island.
		Mainau is the Flower Island of the Bodensee.
	www.bicyclegermany.com /lake_constance.htm (3697 words)

	A Summer of Art and Culture on the Island of Mainau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This summer on the island of Mainau on Lake Constance is set to be a summer of internationally renowned art and culture.
		His project on the island of flowers kicked off on Tuesday, 24 April in Friedrichshafen with the completion of his biggest work of art to date: press representatives came together in a hangar at the local airport to witness the completion of one of his motifs on a 75-metre-long blimp.
		The social summer on the island of Mainau will commence with the glamorous opening event on 13 June, to which more than 300 celebrities, industrialists, artists and journalists are invited.
	www.fourtitude.com /news/publish/Audi_News/printer_3094.shtml (482 words)

	EUROPA - Environment - Emas - Training Material and Case Studies - EMAS Toolkit for small organisations - CASES: ...
		One of the main tourists attractions of Lake Constance, Mainau Island is owned by the Swedish Lord Bernadotte and has been run by the Lennart-Bernadotte foundation since the 1970s.
		Mainau Island is the first botanic garden in Europe to receive an ecoaudit certificate, and it is EMAS-registered.
		Mainau Island also try to apply environmentally friendly gardening methods (less pesticides and fertilizers, watering with rainwater and water from the lake, etc.) and to reduce waste production (less one-use products, less packaging, souvenirs now only wrapped in paper/textile/compostable materials).
	www.inem.org /new_toolkit/comm/environment/emas/toolkit/cases/cases_14.htm (161 words)

	Bodensee
		The island on which the city is located is a mere 0.68 square kilometers.
		The highest structure is a portion of the old castle of Meersburg which was built in the 7th century by Dagobert I of the Merovingian dynasty.
		Mainau Island is quite small (110 acres) and located close to both Constance and Meersburg.
	home.earthlink.net /~autrey03/bodensee.htm (622 words)

	Lake Constance Bike Tour - Andiamo Adventours- Biking & Walking tours: Bavaria, Croatia, Italy, Switzerland, France
		This island, completely covered in a variety of flowers, exist due to a microclimate whereby mild weather patterns allow even palm trees and other subtropical plants to grow.
		Their castle is still important to the island as it houses an abundance of different orchids, roses and much more.
		This island town was often referred to as the “Venice of Swabia” because it was composed of several small islands connected with bridges.
	www.andiamoadventours.com /aa_swiss_constance.html (1952 words)

	Human Flower Project
		Mauritius, a paradisal island on the western edge of the Indian Ocean, is home to lots of tropical flowers and, more recently, the launching pad for healthy exports of anthurium.
		The island lies in Lake Constance (Bodensee), where Switzerland, Germany and Austria meet, and its strangely mild climate is superb for gardening.
		The island’s oddest attraction—too kitschy to be pictured on the official Mainau website—is its collection of floral animals: ducks, a peacock, and a rabbit (or sausage with long ears).
	www.humanflowerproject.com /index.php/p30/P750 (2649 words)

	Konstanz (Constance) : Attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mainau Island -- The unusual, almost tropical island of Mainau lies 6km (4 miles) north of Konstanz, in the arm of the Bodensee known as the Überlingersee.
		Only the island's gardens and parks can be visited by the public.
		You can reach Mainau either by tour boat from Konstanz or by walking across the small footbridge connecting the island to the mainland, north of the city.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=851&catID=0851010029 (393 words)

	Die Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		We cross the Uberlinger See and reach the floral island of Mainau with its baroque castle and church, built by the German Order of Knights around 1740, and its parks, which attract nearly 2 million visitors every year.
		On the left side above the island of Mainau we see the modern buildings of the University of Constance and the ferry harbor in Staad.
		It is famous for its three Roman churches and the numerous greenhouses, in which top-quality vegetables grow and whose glass roofs sparkle in the sun.
	www.zeppelinflug.de /pages/E/westroute_inhalt_mainau.htm (296 words)

	Turtle Trips - The Black Forrest & South Germany
		It is an enormous island, connected to dry land with a rather narrow path with a road for buses, and a path for pedestrians.
		When on Insel Mainau, don't miss the impressive Butterfly World: It is a gigantic hall, with a Tropical living environment: large trees, unique flowers, waterfalls and rocks, and in-between all of those, thousands of variously sized and colored butterflies fly freely.
		The island is adorable, but it is not recommended to sleep on it, because even though it is filled with hotels and Zimmers, we spent half the night wandering around trying to find a vacant hotel or Zimmer, because it is so toured.
	www.turtletrips.com /trip4/toc_list4.html (1756 words)

	Islands
		Mainau was abloom with some five million flowers when photographer Macduff Everton visited the island in late April.
		May is a busy convention month, and although it doesn't really affect the mood of the island, Scheller notes that hotel reservations can be hard to come by then.
		Lindau island is very compact, and most streets are closed to non-pedestrian traffic; people tend to get around on foot or by bike.
	www.islands.com /article_print.jsp?ID=47925 (618 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The tulips, narcissi and orchids bloom in the spring, the rhododendrons in May, the roses in the summer and the dahlias in the autumn as far as the eye can see.
		In the summer the wind moves through the crowns and in the winter the protective Palm House creates an oasis at the Castle Terrace — with café tables under palms and the scent of blooming oranges or orchids pervading everywhere.
		Children as well can experience and enjoy Mainau Island: a superb playground, a garden railway, floral animals, a farm, a petting zoo and pony riding will await you.
	www.germany-tourism.de /printview.htm?theprintfile=///e/index_24328.html (291 words)

	Mainau Island at Lake Constance Photo Gallery by Markus Huck at pbase.com
		Mainau Island at Lake Constance Photo Gallery by Markus Huck at pbase.com
		all galleries >> Mainau Island at Lake Constance
		I visited this island and I am still deeply impressed by the beauty and exquisiteness!!!
	www.pbase.com /markushuck/mainau (43 words)

	Bike Tours Direct -- Europe Bicycle Tours
		Peter Lenk created this controversial statue in memory of the prostitutes at the time of the Konstanz Council, which took place between 1414-1418 and was the only church gathering north of the Alps.
		The monasteries on the island were of great importance in the 10th Century and in 2001 the island was declared a UNESCO world heritage site.
		You will cycle through Konstanz and onto the garden island of Mainau, which is well worth a visit.
	www.biketoursdirect.com /?location=tourdetail&tid=30&cid=7 (929 words)

	Krumlovgirl Mainau Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
		Mainau is a little island in the middle of the Bodensee.
		On the island´s eastern slope rhododendrons and azaleas are in bloom, late tulips add a touch of colour.
		Soon it will be Christmas which, on the Island of Mainau, has its own very special appeal: Exotic splendour under palm trees, exotic butterflies, silence in the park, Christmas events in the castle, and Swedish Christmas buffets.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/4e750/9bba (593 words)

	Stars & Stripes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mainau Island, Germany's mild climate allows palm trees to survive winter.
		This charming town, which dates from the end of the ninth century, sits on an island at the eastern end of the lake in Germany.
		The island is now in the hands of a foundation established by the most recent owner, the Swedish Count Lennart Bernadotte, who lives part of the year in the island castle with his second wife.
	www.stripes.com /article.asp?section=103&article=10985&archive=true (1988 words)

	Chubarenko et al.: Wind-driven current simulations... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Using three-dimensional numerical modelling for the shallow water equations on the rotating Earth in the Boussinesq approximation, we study the steady barotropic motion around the Island Mainau in Lake Überlingen, forced by uniformly distributed winds of different directions.
		The method of substructuring is used to resolve the flow pattern near the Island Mainau with greater accuracy and thus to identify the peculiarities that are induced by the island as an obstruction to the current field within the lake basin.
		It is further demonstrated that the island acts as an obstructing entity that effectively influences the flow within Lake Überlingen.
	wegener.mechanik.tu-darmstadt.de /~wang/abstracts/2001/Chu_etal_01.html (263 words)

	Wilhelm Ruland. Legends of the Rhine. The Island of Mainau
		At first the island was in the possession of this noble race, but later on, in the thirteenth century, it passed into the hands of an order of German Knights.
		Wintry storms blew over the waters, whistling round the lonely island, and the maiden had become as pale as the flakes of snow which fell against the window-panes.
		But as he approached his native land the struggle in his soul between love and duty was very great; at one moment it seemed to overcome him, and he felt he could no longer keep his vow.
	www.kellscraft.com /LegendsRhine/legendsrhine003.html (855 words)

	Count Lennart Bernadotte, 95, Dies on Mainau -- Rest in Peace
		Count Lennart Bernadotte, who gave up his royal Swedish title to marry a commoner but gained an Edenic island that he built into a tourist attraction, died on Dec. 21 on Mainau, the island he had gardened in Lake Constance, Germany, for over half a century.
		The death was announced by the foundation he formed to administer the 96-acre island, which had been in and out of the possession of the Swedish crown since the end of the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century.
		The island's palmy climate - rare for Europe north of the Alps - inspired its owners in the mid-1800's to cultivate rare plants and start an arboretum, an Italian rose garden and an orangery.
	www.voy.com /87202/1058.html (464 words)

	Alt Mainau
		The statement, that 'Alt Mainau' would be the same cultivar as 'Chillerton Beauty', seems doubtful to me, for the simple reason the foliage looks a bit different.
		In het verhaal van de Gelderse Fuchsia Infosite staat, dat de bordjes met "über 130 Jahre alt" er ook in 1988 al stonden (ze mochten in Mainau weleens "updaten"), dus het is waarschijnlijk dat de planten inmiddels rond de anderhalve eeuw oud zijn.
		I have to add to this, that the height of the old shrubs, according to gardeners at Mainau, had been reduced because the plants became too big to be put in the greenhouse during winter.
	www.ideboda.nl /fuchsia/1/altmainau.html (683 words)

	More about 1000 Island Boat Cruise by Cruises... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Thousand Islands Boat Cruise schedule and rates for the 1000 Islands Experience, Parkway Boatline is an attraction at this family tourist destination.
		Island and Millionaires Row are only a taste of the adventure aboard our International One Hour Boat cruise in the quotHeartquot of the 1000...
		The Island Cruise is a double decker with an enclosed main deck and open top deck...
	www.cruisesecret.com /cruise/1000_island_boat_cruise.html (638 words)

	International Travel News: Lindau and Mainau - European treasures - description of small towns in Germany - Hidden ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The island on which the city is located is connected to the mainland by several bridges for auto, foot and rail traffic.
		Visitors find Mainau a wonderful place to relax and enjoy nature, but there are no overnight accommodations on the island itself.
		You can enjoy food and drink, however, in one of the island's outstanding restaurants, or opt for just a cool glass of beer or wine in a keller (bee cellar), which is actually made from an old 25,000-liter wine barrel.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3648/is_n9_v17/ai_12728648 (1265 words)

	Europe Cycling Holiday -- Germany, Austria, Switzerland -- Solo
		Kreuzlingen, Switzerland is located right next to the German city of Konstanz, and instead of continuing around the lake through Switzerland, I crossed the border at Konstanz, anxious to visit the nearby "must-see" island of Mainau.
		Mainau (Island of Flowers) was, indeed, well worth a visit and an entire roll of photos.
		I could take a direct route by ferry to Mainau and back to Konstanz or, for the same price, I could have crossed the lake to Meersburg, a town I visited later, which turned out to be a favorite of the entire trip.
	www.cstn.org /reports/europe/europe_austria_germany_switzerland_cycle04.html (1779 words)

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