page_title: Seerhein
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Seerhein / Transport
context_page_description: The Seerhein is a river about four kilometres long, in the basin of Lake Constance. It is the outflow of the Upper Lake Constance and the main tributary of the Lower Lake Constance. The water level of the lower lake is about 30 cm below the level of the Upper Lake. It is considered part of the Rhine, which flows into Lake Constance as the Alpine Rhine and flows out of the Lake as the High Rhine. The Seerhein arose after the last Ice Age. Some time after this period, the water level of Lake Constance gradually dropped by about ten metres and the shallow parts fell dry. Some parts of the Seerhein still have a character a bit like a lake.
  The border between Germany and Switzerland runs down the center of the lower stretch of the river; the German city of Constance, the largest community on the river, is situated on both sides of the upper part.
context_section_description: The Seerhein is navigable and is used primarily by the pleasure boats of the "Schweizerischen Schifffahrtsgesellschaft Untersee und Rhein" ("Swiss Shipping Company 'Untersee and Rhine').
  There are three bridges across the Seerhein, all on the upper part of the river.  Furthest East is the Old Rhine Bridge in Constance, near the bottleneck of the terminal moraine (see below).  The current bridge was constructed in 1957, but precursors have existed since late antiquity.  A little to the West, the Seerheinbrücke, a pedestrian and cycle bridge, was built in 1991.  At the Western edge of Contance, the Schänzlebrücke crosses the river.  It is part of the German Federal Highway 33, which turns in to Highway A7 at the border.
  There used to be several ferries, one to the East of the present cycle bridge, and one between Paradies and Stromeyersdorf.  In the 19th Century, distance markers where placed along the Rhine; they start counting Kilometres at the Old Bridge in Constance.
caption: View from Constance Minster tower to the beginning of the Seerhein Konstanz on the old bridge over the Rhine
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