LINDAU  , a

town and pleasure resort in the kingdom of Bavaria, and the central point of the transit trade between that country and Switzerland, situated on two islands off the north-eastern shore of Lake Constance . Pop . (1905) 6531 . The town is a terminus of the Vorarlberg railway, and of the Munich-Lindau line of the Bavarian state railways, and is connected with the mainland both by a wooden bridge and by a railway enbankment erected in 1853 . There are a royal palace and an old and a new town-hall (the older one having been built in 1422 and restored in 1886-1888), a museum and a municipal library with interesting manuscripts and a collection of Bibles, also classical, commercial and industrial schools . The harbour is much frequented by steamers from Constance and other places on the lake . There are also some Roman remains, the Heidenmauer, and a fine modern fountain, the Reichsbrunnen . Opposite the custom-house is a bronze statue of the Bavarian king Maximilian II., erected in 1856 . On the site now occupied by the town there was a Roman camp, the castrum Tiberii, and the authentic records of Lindau date back to the end of the 9th century, when it was known as Lintowa . In 1274, or earlier, it became a free imperial town; in 1331 it joined the Swabian league, and in 1531 became a member of the league of Schmalkalden, having just previously accepted the reformed doctrines . In 1647 it was ineffectually besieged by the Swedes . In 1804 it lost its imperial privileges and passed to Austria, being transferred to Bavaria in 1805 .

See Boulan, Lindau, vor altem and jetzt (Lindau, 1872) ; and Stettners, Fi hrer durch Lindau and Umgebungen (Lindau, 1900) .