UNESCO Sites: Prehistoric Pile Dwellings

Overview UNESCO Sites around Lake Constance

UNESCO Site Rorenhaab

This site marks the beginnings of pile-dwelling research in the canton of Zurich. The settlement was inhabited by the Cortaillod culture to the Late Bronze Age.
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...
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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...

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....
Siedlungsrekonstruktion Bodman Schachen © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Bodman Schachen

The site Bodman-Schachen - today it lies in the nature reserve - was probably discovered between 1854 and 1866. The rich pile training at the end of the Überlinger Lake...
Luftbild von der Fundstelle Feldbach-Ost

UNESCO Site Feldbach

This site was discovered in 1864, spanning the entire bay between Feldbach and Kempraten. Here we have unearthed four Neolithic phases of Cortaillod, Pfyn, Horgen as well as...
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UNESCO Site Ehrenstein

The Ehrenstein site is located northwest of Ulm in the valley of the river Blau, south-southeast of the village Ehrenstein. Ehrenstein is one of the best preserved wetland...
Fototafeln Hornstaad Hörnle © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege | © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

UNESCO Site Hornstaad Hörnle

In 1856/57 the site was discovered; after her the Hornstaader group was named. Extensive excavations have uncovered a cluster village, which was built between 3918 and 3902...

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.