Owingen

Linzgau is a historic region in Southern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located north of Lake Constance and south of the Danube valley.

On 1 July 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and DHL International Aviation ME Flight 611, a Boeing 757 cargo jet, collided in midair over Überlingen, a southern German town on Lake Constance, near the Swiss border. All of the passengers and crew aboard both planes were killed, resulting in a total death toll of 71.The official investigation by the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (German: Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung -BFU) identified the main cause of the collision to be a number of shortcomings on the part of the Swiss air traffic control (ATC) service in charge of the sector involved, as well as ambiguities in the procedures regarding the use of the traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) on board.: 110 In 2004, Peter Nielsen, the air traffic controller on duty at the time of the collision, was murdered in an apparent act of revenge by Vitaly Kaloyev, a Russian citizen and architect whose wife and two children had been killed in the accident.

Andelshofen is a village in the municipality of Überlingen, in the west of the Bodenseekreis in southwest Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located about 2.5 km (1.6 miles) northwest of Überlingen, just southeast of the Andelshofer Weiher, and has a population of 106.

Billafingen is a village that is part of Owingen in the Bodensee district, Germany, close to Überlingen. It was first mentioned in 970 and merged with Owingen in 1975. Its population is around 700. It has won the village improvement competition "Unser Dorf soll schöner werden" ('Make our village more beautiful') several times.

Spetzgart Castle (German: Schloss Spetzgart) is a building complex dating back to the Staufer period, which is located in the Hödingen district of Überlingen, Germany. It is currently a campus for the students in grades 10PLUS and 11 of Schule Schloss Salem. The school has been using the castle since May 3rd, 1929. The castle and the surrounding residential buildings form the residential area of Spetzgart.

Überlingen (German pronunciation: [ˈyːbɐˌlɪŋən] ; Low Alemannic: Iberlinge) is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg near the border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second-largest city in the Bodenseekreis (district), and a central point for the outlying communities. Since 1 January 1993, Überlingen has been categorized as a large district city (Große Kreisstadt).

Hohenbodman is a village in the municipality of Owingen in the western Bodenseekreis in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Hödingen is a village in the municipality of Überlingen, in the west of the Bodenseekreis in southwest Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) northwest of Überlingen.

The Goldbach Tunnels (Ger: Goldbacher Stollen) was constructed between June 1944 and April 1945 by inmates of the Überlingen-Aufkirch concentration camp of the Dachau concentration camp under forced labor conditions. It was built into the Molasse rock formation between the village of Goldbach(de) and Überlingen on the northern shore of the Lake Überlingen (part of Lake Constance). The facility was intended to serve as an underground relocation site for war-critical armaments industries from Friedrichshafen, located about 35 kilometers southeast.

Schwende is a village in Herdwangen-Schönach, Germany.