Konstanz Private guided tour The mystical Constance
Descriptions come from the operator and are translated automatically.
- 1h 45m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Private tour
Highlights
On this fun and creepy guided tour, our guide will guide you through the mysterious and mystical Constance! Meet medieval mystics who worked in Constance and were canonized here. Discover mysterious symbols, enigmatic messages, magic signs, dark angles, oracle-like spells, occult depictions, demonic figures, macabre images and abysmal allegories. Listen to eerie stories of ghost hauntings and wondrous happenings from the past. Unravel the mysteries of the medieval Council City and learn about real wonders that happened in Constance. This guided city tour is not only suitable for the dark evening hours, but also ensures scary moments during the day.
Inclusions
What's included
- Tour guide
What's not
- Tipping
Itinerary
The port beauty “Imperia” welcomes guests to the port. The generous sculpture by the sculptor Peter Lenk has become the new landmark of the Lake Constance metropolis. Learn from our guide what this mysterious lady is all about and listen to the ghostly events that occurred here during the Council period in the 15th century.
The beautiful council building was built as a department store and goods handling centre as early as the 14th century. Not only was a new pope elected in this historic building, but a mysterious miracle also occurred here. Your guide knows all kinds of strange stories about miracles, mystics, revenants, cruel figures, strange apparitions and terrible happenings.
A mighty house, five stories high, stands here at the fish market, once built in the 13th century by a powerful Konstanz patrician family. Supposedly, it was built from top to bottom – so it’s a miracle that it still stands!
The venerable cathedral, the former Episcopal Church, is reported to have once been eerie lights of night circling the cathedral tower, singing psalms from nowhere and noise coming from the closed cathedral caused by ghosts of cathedrals announcing death. Several miracles are also said to have taken place in the cathedral: macabre ghost phenomena, traces of death sentences, abysmal allegories and mystical signs still report these events today. Under the all-seeing eye of God, our guide will tell you about all these wonders.
Nowadays, Münsterplatz is characterized by powerful cathedral courtyards from the Baroque period, built at a time when Constance was still an important seat of a bishop. Today, it is hard to imagine that the square served as a cemetery for centuries. Some ghost phenomena are said to have already existed here: for example, long shadows are reported, which are said to have stretched over the cathedral manors, whereupon the cathedral man in question met his death. So it is not surprising that the cathedral of Constance shows demonic figures to ward off the evil spirits.
Once the Blessed Mother herself was said to have ensured with a glamorous apparition of Mary that the city of Constance was spared from destruction by war enemies. The oldest district of Konstanz, Niederburg, still houses medieval narrow streets and dark corners. Let our guide take you to some of them!
Even the most powerful German river, the Rhine, has already done wonders here at the Rhine Gate Tower, where the German Rhine count is only just beginning with kilometer 0. You will be amazed at what our guide knows how to report here!
The Dominican Island is located in front of the old town of Konstanz. Dominican monks built a monastery here in the 13th century. Only a hundred years later, this monastery was the scene of the work of an important mystic. Our guide will tell you who they were.
Just a few steps from the Obermarkt in Constance, there is a 16th-century house where a ghost is doing his mischief. The residents of the house report an eerie sigh, which sometimes rings out, and a cold breath, which they then feel. If you are brave enough, our guide will be happy to show you the haunted house of Konstanz.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Meeting point is at the Historical Harbour Clock, next to the Council building and the ticket office of the Bodensee ship companies.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Stadtführungen in Konstanz & Reiseleitungen rund um den Bodensee
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Konstanz
- Its from-price is close to the median of the 28 experiences we list in Konstanz.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Konstanz
Konstanz lies on the shore of Lake Constance on the Swiss border, an old university town with a cathedral, a harbour and islands of flowers close by.
Konstanz stands on the western shore of Lake Constance, where the Rhine leaves the lake, and its streets run straight into Switzerland at Kreuzlingen. The old town escaped the bombing of the Second World War and has kept its medieval towers, narrow lanes and a cathedral with a tall spire. At the harbour entrance the Imperia, a nine-metre statue of a courtesan that turns slowly on its base, stands beside the old Council Hall, where the Council of Constance met from 1414 to 1418.
