UNESCO World Heritage experiences

in the four-country region
Abbey library in St.Gallen close to Lake Constance

Abbey Cathedral of St Gall, UNESCO World Heritage Site

The Abbey Cathedral of St.Gall, the abbey library and the surrounding monastery buildings - in short the St.Gallen Abbey District - was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site...

UNESCO Site Winkel

A large site with settlement remains from six different epochs. Noteworthy is the late Corded Ceramic settlement and evidence of an Early Bronze Age phase.

Museum at Pfäffikersee

In the 17th century Oberlaender Doppelflarzhaus on the lake quay, this permanent exhibition shows numerous prehistoric finds from Pfäffikon and the surrounding area...
© Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Schreckensee

The site is located on a peninsula in the Schrecksee and contains the only comprehensive stratigraphy of Upper Swabia from the Early Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age...

Museum at Turmhof

Museum with original presentation from the 1930ies, 2018 the old vitrines were restaurated. Objects from the pile-dwellings in Steckborn and Eschenz.

Eschenz Museum

Local museum with original artefacts from the UNESCO-site Eschenz-Insel Werd.

UNESCO Site Enge Alpenquai

This exclusively Late Bronze Age settlement has a large variety of organic materials. Several settlement phases occupied this site until the end of the pile dweller period.
UNESCO Fundstelle Konstanz Hinterhausen © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Konstanz Hinterhausen

The extensive pile field and the spectrum of artifacts discovered point to a comprehensive settlement history on the north shore of Constance harbor, first discovered in...
Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen | © Pfahlbaumuseum Freilichtmuseum und Forschungsinstitut

Lake Dwelling Museum Unteruhldingen

Welcome to the pile dwellings in Unteruhldingen, one of Europe’s largest and oldest open-air archaeological museums. The 23 reconstructions of pile dwellings from the...