Talk:Lindau

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Picture of the day

The entrance to the harbor of Lindau, Bavaria, Germany, a major town and island in the international Lake Constance. The current harbor in Lindau was built in the mid-19th century, together with the Bavarian Lion (left) and the Lindau Lighthouse (right). The harbor entrance serves as a tourist attraction.Photograph: Julian Herzog

Dubious statement.

"After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, Lindau lost its status as an Imperial Free City in 1802. "

This statement makes no grammatical sense in English, because the "Holy Roman Empire" was dissolved in 1806.Lathamibird (talk) 02:14, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Large rewrite and correction of whole article.

Much of the article read like a tourist brochure rather than a encyclopaedia article and seemed to have been written by a non-English speaker or machine translated so I have corrected the wording and removed some redundant phrases. I have not fact checked these sections and there are a number of ambiguous phrases and unverified claims in the article.

Main issues resolved by this edit:

• removed superlatives
• improved grammar
• Section on "Lindauer" corrected and referenced — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trevmo (talk • contribs) 05:31, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

canting arms

The coat of arms of Lindau town is a linden tree, referring to the supposed origin of the town's name (Linde means linden tree in German).

Canting arms often merely pun, rather than pointing to a supposed etymology. Can one be sure which this is? I would sidestep the question by dropping the back half of the sentence:

The coat of arms of Lindau town is a linden tree (German Linde).

—Tamfang (talk) 02:18, 10 April 2023 (UTC)