Holiday Country Austria - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2003 - 75 Euro Cent

With a surface of 38 km2 and a length of 27 km, Austria has a very small share of Lake Constance (571.5 km2), which is also silted up by the rubble of the Rhine as a consequence of the 1906 and 1923 estuary regulation. In the relatively clean Alpine foreland lake, which is also called the Swabian Sea, there are at least a respectable 35 species of fish, including perch, pike and eel. The "Lake Constance Conference", which has existed since 1972 and includes the neighboring states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, the Swiss cantons of Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, Thurgau and Vorarlberg, also deals with cross-border cooperation in the field of environmental and water protection, the major health and economic On the new permanent stamp Adolf Tuma built the 1911-13 at the Swiss shipyard Escher Wyss & Cie and carefully restored in the years 1984-90 by the association "Internationales Bodensee-Maritime Museum" , highly comfortable paddle steamer "Hohentwiel" presented from a particularly impressive perspective. Even today, with 950 hp and 31 km / h, the ship is probably the fastest on Lake Constance and, with its Art Nouveau décor, a most welcome attraction for tourism.