Larger sailing and motorboats will not have a place in the new harbour on the Swiss side of the lake; the infrastructure is not designed for this, representatives of the harbour authority told YACHT Online. However, in addition to the 185 berths for permanent harbour residents, there will be a total of six guest berths where larger yachts can also moor.
Great interest, long waiting lists
In return, a total of 220 buoys off Münsterlingen and the neighbouring municipality of Landschlacht had to be removed to create the 185 harbour berths and as a requirement for the realisation of the project. Naturally, the buoy moorers were given a right of first refusal for the new berths in the harbour. This explains why the harbour is almost fully occupied right from the start of construction. There are also long waiting lists of interested parties even before the harbour opens.
A small harbour building with an office and a workshop for the harbour master as well as sanitary facilities are currently still under construction. However, the infrastructure should be completed in time for the opening of the harbour on 1 May 2025. On land, there will also be 36 dry berths for small yachts on trailers and dinghies on slipways. Reserving berths for guests will be extremely easy with an app for mobile phones. This means that information about available berths in the new Münsterlingen harbour can be called up at any time and from anywhere.
Project with many hurdles
The plans for the new harbour have been underway for almost 30 years and have triggered intense discussions, not only within the otherwise tranquil community of Münsterlingen. The project has been repeatedly called into question and hotly debated at a political level. All efforts to realise project ideas over the past three decades have repeatedly failed due to various hurdles. Either the project could not be authorised, was too expensive or too ambitious.
It was not until 2020 that changes to the legal framework permitted the construction of a new harbour in the shallow water zone off Münsterlingen. In October 2022, the voters of the municipality of Münsterlingen finally gave the green light for the project with a narrow yes vote. It will probably be the last new harbour construction on the shores of Lake Constance for the time being.
