Zeppelin Bike Tour Friedrichshafen

The Zeppelin Museum, home to the world's most extensive collection of airships, is a real highlight right at the start of the tour that will get you in the right mood for the history of the Count of Zeppelin. Over the new bridge and through a subway, you pass the ZF Forum, which sets a striking urban accent. After the Rotach bridge, turn right immediately into Kornblumenweg. At Graf-Soden-Platz, keep left on the cycle path towards Messe. Your next destination is the Zeppelin Hangar. This is where the Zeppelin NT takes off on its sightseeing flights from spring to autumn. During the flying season, tours of the hangar are offered on Tuesdays and Fridays. On the terrace of the Zeppelin Hangar FN restaurant, you can watch the Zeppelin NT take off and land up close while enjoying coffee and cake. After a relaxing stop, the tour continues past the exhibition centre through the idyllic Schmitthennersiedlung, a housing estate from the 1930s, to the listed Zeppelin Village. In the workers' settlement, which was built at the time of the founding of the Zeppelin Company, the show house offers you an authentic look at the life of the working population between 1914 and today (May-Oct, Sun 12-16 hrs). After crossing Riedlepark, you will reach Maybachplatz. There you will find important Häfler companies such as ZF Friedrichshafen, Zeppelin GmbH and MTU Friedrichshafen, a brand of Rolls-Royce Power Systems, which grew out of the history of Zeppelin construction. Passing the cemetery, you now pick up speed in the direction of Fallenbrunnnen, where the ZF Campus of Zeppelin University is located in addition to the Kulturhaus Caserne. Turn left directly behind the Caserne. At the junction to Zeisigstraße you will find the Obsthof Büchele. You can reach the SeeCampus of the university named after the Count of Zeppelin via Windhager Straße in the direction of Seemos.

Along the Lake Constance cycle path you cycle back to the city centre and pass the Friedrichshafen beach bath, the castle church and the imposing castle footbridge as well as the well-known Graf-Zeppelin-Haus culture and congress centre. In the lakeside park you will find the Zeppelin Monument with a quotation from Count Zeppelin. On the terrace of the Zeppelin Museum Restaurant, the starting point of the tour, you can end the evening with a relaxing view over Lake Constance and review the many historical and impressive impressions you have gathered on the tracks of Count von Zeppelin.