Meckenbeuren works well as a base: 5 minutes from Tettnang, 22km from Meersburg Castle.
Meckenbeuren is in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, with about 13,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Tettnang, about 4 km away.
Meckenbeuren (German pronunciation: [ˈmɛkn̩ˌbɔʏʁən]) 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.
Within an hour or so of Meckenbeuren: Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (8 km), Autobau Erlebniswelt (21 km), Meersburg Castle (22 km), Mainau Island (28 km).
Are there any good drives near Meckenbeuren?
The nearest famous roads are Furkajoch, Schwägalp Pass and Riedberg Pass.
Where is Meckenbeuren?
Meckenbeuren is in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, about 4 km from Tettnang.
Road trip
Drive to Meckenbeuren
Add it as a stop and the planner works out the driving, the nights and what's worth seeing on the way.
The world's largest airship collection, in the Bauhaus harbour station of the town where the giants were built, including a walk-through, full-scale reconstruction of the Hindenburg's passenger quarters.
8 km · about 15 min drive
museum
Autobau Erlebniswelt
Racing driver Fredy Lienhard's supercar and motorsport collection in a former Romanshorn industrial plant on Lake Constance: Ferraris, Le Mans prototypes and Indy cars.
21 km · about 25 min drive
castle
Meersburg Castle
Germany's oldest inhabited castle overlooks Lake Constance from a vineyard terrace in a charming medieval old town.
22 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Mainau Island
A Mediterranean flower island on Lake Constance bursts with palms, butterfly house and a baroque palace garden.
28 km · about 30 min drive
museum
Erwin Hymer Museum
Unique museum celebrating road trip culture with vintage camper vans, caravans, and dream routes from around the world.
30 km · about 35 min drive
museum
Rolls-Royce Museum Dornbirn
One of the world's largest Rolls-Royce collections, filling a converted 19th-century mill in the Gütle valley near Dornbirn with Phantoms and Silver Ghosts once owned by royalty.
38 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Appenzell
A colourful village in rolling green hills known for its painted wooden houses, direct democracy traditions, and the dramatic Alpstein range.
43 km · about 50 min drive
restaurant
Berggasthaus Aescher
An 1846 guesthouse pressed under a 100 m overhanging cliff below Ebenalp, made world-famous by a National Geographic cover; cable car from Wasserauen, then a 15-minute walk to rösti on the terrace.
48 km · about 55 min drive
Driving roads near Meckenbeuren
52 kmFurkajochA narrow, quiet Vorarlberg pass with a fine view over the Rhine valley, closed through the winter.
53 kmSchwägalp PassThe road under the north face of the Säntis, ending at the cable car station. Green alpine pasture country rather than high rock.
54 kmRiedberg PassGermany's highest paved mountain pass at 1,407 m, carrying the B308 Alpine road over gradients up to 16% between Balderschwang and the Illertal in the Allgaeu Alps.
63 kmHochtannberg PassA pass linking the Bregenzerwald to Lech, held open through winter for the ski resorts.
65 kmTriesenbergWalser mountain village terraced 400 m above the Rhine on the hairpin road to Malbun; its balcony viewpoints take in the entire principality and the Swiss Alpstein across the valley.
66 kmOberjoch JochstrasseThe most bend-rich road in Germany: the B308 Jochstrasse coils through over 100 curves as it climbs from Bad Hindelang to the mountain village of Oberjoch at 1,178 m in the Allgaeu.