Nobel Prizewinners’ jetty

There is hardly any other place in the world – except Stockholm – where so many Nobel Prize-winning scientists have regularly gathered at the same time as in Lindau. Every summer, during the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, the town becomes an international meeting place for science for a week. Founded in 1951 by Lindau doctors Dr Franz Karl Hein and Professor Dr Gustav Wilhelm Parade, together with Count Lennart Bernadotte of the flower island of Mainau, young scientists had the opportunity to talk to Nobel Prize winners and exchange ideas with each other in the years that followed. Since 2019, the Nobel Prizewinners’ jetty has provided a year-round venue that commemorates the Nobel laureates, represents the history of the meetings and invites visitors to linger.

Combining knowledge and relaxation

On the shore of the so-called Small Lake, at Therese-von-Bayern-Platz next to the Inselhalle, the Nobel Prizewinners’ jetty leads out onto the water. All Nobel Prize winners who have participated in the conferences are immortalised here with their names on their own railing struts – along with the year they received the prize, the year of their first visit to Lake Constance and their respective fields of expertise. This means that you can get to know the 400 or so scientists as you stroll along the extensive footbridge and find out more about the laureates and their discoveries on the accompanying website.
So you can take home new knowledge from the Nobel Prizewinners’ jetty, but also enjoy a beautiful location. A spacious bench invites you to take a leisurely break on the extensive jetty, where you can watch the numerous swans that call the Small Lake home. This is a great opportunity to recharge your batteries so you can learn even more about the Nobel Laureates and their research. The Nobel Prizewinners’ jetty is also the central station of the Lindau Knowledge Trail.

Continue the knowledge trail

The Lindau cityscape features 18 knowledge pylons, which are distributed across the island and mainland to form the knowledge trail. Each station is dedicated to a scientific topic and the Nobel Prize winners who conducted research on it. With the accompanying app, a visit to Lindau becomes an exciting knowledge rally.

You can download the flyer about the knowledge trail with the various stations free of charge here.