Sonja

I guess it was for being representative and having a view?
The king had of course a big yacht and there was a proper landing and boat house already from the monks times, but this was west of the castle tip. All of this is gone today, only during very low water one may see a few wooden poles. Of course Friedrichshafen got several harbours today, but none in front of the old walls of Hofen.

There are far older things just like this very new railway bridge remains (Kinzua, isn't it? ) that naturally became a ruin as they got damaged from nature and age -- I guess the most famous are in France, the Pont du Gard aquaduct and the Ambrussum bridge ruin that Courbet painted, and of course the Avignon bridge with the song about it. They all just end somewhere in the middle of the water now, just not quite as neatly, and huge amounts of tourists take in the sight as a must have seen and written a postcard from. I am a sucker for roman remains and have visited all 3.


And it may well be that the exclusive walking pier of the Wuerttembergs had it's inspiration from this and should suggest to be a bridge head ruin from roman times. It is from times when historistic parc accents without much of a practical cause where all the rage. The english called that "follies".