UNESCO World Heritage experiences

in the four-country region

Wetzikon Museum

The Wetzikon Antiquarian Society birthed the museum that houses the pre-historic pile dweller finds of 19th century Swiss farmer-poet and amateur archeologist Jakob...

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.

UNESCO Site Insel Werd

In the 1930s excavated island settlement. Fund layers from the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Idyllic situated on the Rhine island in front of the medieval town of Stein am Rhein.
Backschaufel aus der Fundstelle Olzreute Enzisholz © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Olzreute Enzisholz

The Olzreute Enzisholz site is a typical example of a smaller Upper Swabian silting moor settlement. The settlement layers are an exceptionally well preserved example of the...

UNESCO Site Technikum

The Obersee site was recently discovered in 1998 followed by archeologic investigations in 1999, 2006 and 2011. The 100 meter settlement is located on a shoal, surrounded by...

UNESCO site Weil Pestenacker

The Neolithic settlement of Pestenacker was discovered in the course of straightening Loosbach brook in 1934. From 1988 to 1993 and 2000 to 2004 large-scale excavations were...

Eschenz Museum

Local museum with original artefacts from the UNESCO-site Eschenz-Insel Werd.
Ausstellung "Steinzeitdorf Ehrenstein"

Exhibition "Stone Age Village Ehrenstein"

The permanent collection in the Blaustein town hall foyer shows finds and reconstruction models of the Ehrenstein site, detailing life in the 4th millennium BC.
Gesamthausrekonstruktion © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Ödenahlen

UNESCO Site Ödenahlen is located 500 m south of the village Ödenahlen in the northern Federseeried. It was discovered in 1930 / 40s and explored in 1981 by Landesdenkmalamt...