Miles-Rorenhaab

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Location of the site

Meilen-Rohrenhaab is a prehistoric settlement in the central basin of Lake Zurich in the municipality of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland . The site is part of the lakeside settlements in the Alpine region (UNESCO World Heritage Site) .

Location and findings

The settlement was on the eastern bank of the lake basin . The lake level ( 406  m above sea level ) is higher than during the Stone and Bronze Ages due to climatic differences and the water correction; the site is therefore several meters below the surface of the water.

In the spring of 1855, Ferdinand Keller discovered the remains of wooden stakes, ceramics, bones and other settlement remains as part of work on land reclamation due to the unusually low water level. These and later finds of Keller justified the general interest in wetland settlements , known internationally as pile dwelling fever , by demonstrating that " in the earliest times, groups of families, most likely of Celtic descent, who nourished themselves from fishing and hunting, but also were not entirely ignorant of agriculture ... They lived in huts that they had not built on dry ground, but on stilts on shallow banks . "

Even if the wetland settlements today are mostly no longer assigned to the Celts much later, Meilen-Rorenhaab is therefore an important milestone in pile-dwelling archeology from a research-historical perspective. As one of several sites in a small area that shows the typical settlement dynamics of a micro-region during the Neolithic , all periods with several settlement phases are represented in a very small area. Numerous dendrochronological data, especially from the Early Bronze Age , illustrate the cultural development of this period.

UNESCO World Heritage Site and Cultural Property of National Importance

The settlement remains are among the 111 sites with the greatest scientific potential that were included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites on June 27, 2011 as part of the lakeside settlements in the Alpine region .

In the Swiss inventory of cultural goods of national importance , the wetland settlement is listed as class A objects.

Web links

Commons : pile dwellings in Switzerland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b UNESCO World Heritage Center website (June 27, 2011), press release Six new sites inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List , accessed on March 3, 2013
  2. ^ Ferdinand Keller : The Celtic pile dwellings in the Swiss lakes, Volume 1. Communications from the Antiquarian Society in Zurich , Zurich 1854.
  3. ↑ a b Website palafittes.org: Swiss sites in the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Meilen – Rorenhaab (CH-ZH-06) ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 3, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.palafittes.org
  4. ↑ A-Objects ZH 2018 . Swiss inventory of cultural assets of national importance. In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on March 3, 2013 (PDF; 163 kB, 32 pages, updated annually, no changes for 2018).

Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '3.9 "  N , 8 ° 38' 16.6"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and ninety thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven  /  235898