Gaienhofen
Municipality
Gaienhofen seen from Switzerland
Coat of arms
Location of Gaienhofen within Konstanz district
Gaienhofen Show map of Germany Gaienhofen Show map of Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 47°40′59″N 8°58′56″E / 47.68306°N 8.98222°E / 47.68306; 8.98222
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Freiburg
District	Konstanz
Government
• Mayor (2022–30)	Jürgen Maas[1]
Area
• Total	12.55 km2 (4.85 sq mi)
Elevation	425 m (1,394 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	3,400
• Density	270/km2 (700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	78343
Dialling codes	07735
Vehicle registration	KN
Website	www.gaienhofen.de

Gaienhofen is a municipality in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is located at the border with Switzerland.

Since 1974, Gaienhofen consists of four villages: Gaienhofen, Gundholzen, Hemmenhofen and Horn. Attractions, apart from the Lake of Constance, include the Hermann-Hesse-Höri-Museum and the Museum Haus Dix.

It is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.^[3]

Gaienhofen is twinned with:

• Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, France
• Balatonföldvár, Hungary

• Erich Heckel
• Hermann Hesse

• 
  Stone Age housings (reconstructed) in Unteruhldingen
• 
  Chapel in Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen
• 
  First house of Hermann Hesse and his first wife Maria Bernoulli (Mia)

Media related to Gaienhofen at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website (in German)
• Otto-Dix-Haus
• Hermann-Hesse-Höri-Museum
• Hermann-Hesse-Haus