After World War II, Meersburg was in the French military occupation area in Germany.

German poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff lived there for eight years and purchased the Prince's House.

One of Germany's most celebrated poets, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, lived her final years at Meersburg Castle, from 1841–1848.

[3] The famous eighteenth-century doctor Franz Anton Mesmer (from whose name the verb "to mesmerize" derives) died in 1815 in Meersburg and is buried near the old wall of the graveyard about 0.5 kilometres (0.3 miles) northeast of the upper town-gate "Obertor" (see picture beneath).

The Meersburg vineyards at the northern banks of Lake Constance are famous within Germany.