Hödingen (Überlingen)

Hödingen is a village in the municipality of Überlingen, in the west of the Bodenseekreis in southwest Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

To the southwest of the village are steep Molasse cliffs typical of the Lake Überlingen area.

The Katharinenfelsen protected area adjoins here, in which lies the so-called glacier mill (although it is actually a glacial pothole).

The Überlingen villages of Hohenlinden, Höllwangen, Brachenreute, Goldbach, and Brünnensbach all border Hödingen.

The village came into the possession the Knights Hospitaller commandery in Überlingen in 1297 and from 1396, it belonged to the Konstanz hospital.

[4] Hödingen's coat of arms has a silver background with a blue cloud border, with a large black H in fraktur script in the center.

After Hödingen and the Church were burnt down in the Thirty Years‘ War, a new building was built as Marian pilgrimage site, financed by donations and led by a Capuchin friar.

Hödingen is connected to the Lake Constance-Upper Swabia transport association (bodo), and can be reached by bus from the neighborhood of Bonndorf in Überlingen, or by dial-a-ride.

Hödinger Tobel
St. Bartholomäus Church in Hödingen
Inside of the church
Schloss Spetzgart