UNESCO Sites: Prehistoric Pile Dwellings

Overview UNESCO Sites around Lake Constance

UNESCO Site Vorder Au

The site was discovered in 1996 and is characterized by richly decorated Early Bronze Age pottery and numerous pile footings.

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...

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.

UNESCO Site Bleiche 2 & 3

The Neolithic (3384-3370 BC) and Bronze Age (around 1650 BC) pile-dwellings were discovered 1944 during drainage-work. The archaeological layers are extremly well preserved....
Wabenfoermige Einbauten schuetzen die Fundstelle vor Erosion © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Litzelstetten Krähenhorn

The station Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn represents a special settlement situation on the north bank of the peninsula Bodanrück.
Rose Island and the shallow waters around it together form the UNESCO World Heritage component part. | © © BLfD, Foto: K. Leidorf

UNESCO sites Feldafing Roseninsel

Rose Island in Lake Starnberg was the first and only pile dwelling site that was discovered in Bavaria during the 19th century. With the exception of the nearby Kempfenhausen...
Holzschale © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Allensbach Strandbad

Customs Inspector Dehoff discovers the site in 1861. The multi-phase young and end Neolithic settlement area is located in the area of ​​camping and bathing place under...
UNESCO Fundstelle Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen

The station discovered around 1864 lies immediately before the local situation of Unteruhldingen and extends south of the Ostmole. It lies on a alluvial cone of the Seefeld...
UNESCO Fundstelle Wangen-Hinterhorn © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Wangen-Hinterhorn

The UNESCO Site Wangen-Hinterhorn was discovered in 1856 by Kaspar Löhle, councilor and small farmer from Wangen, as the first prehistoric lakeside settlement in the shallow...