Nussbaumersee
| Nussbaumersee | ||
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| View from the southeast | ||
| Geographical location | Canton of Thurgau | |
| Tributaries | Seebach | |
| Drain | Hüttwilersee | |
| Islands | Horn (peninsula) | |
| Places on the shore | Walnut trees | |
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| Coordinates | 703.6 thousand / 274909 | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 434 m above sea level M. | |
| surface | 25 ha | |
| Maximum depth | 3.9 | |
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particularities |
Nature reserve |
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The Nussbaumersee (also Nussbommersee ) south of Nussbaumen in Canton Thurgau is one of three Endmoränengletscherseen of Thurgletschers , which together with the Hüttwilersee and Hasensee to Hüttwiler Lakes count. The extensive, approx. 150 hectare area is drained from the Seebach to the east, which flows into the Thur east of Warth-Weiningen .
history
The agricultural use was the reason that around 1860 the lake level was lowered by three meters and the lake was thus divided into three. The surrounding land has been drained. Since the mid-1990s, parts of the Seebachtal Foundation have been renatured. The state coal and peat commission formed during the First World War to research and promote possible coal deposits in Switzerland brought only poor results to light. Peat as a fuel regained importance in the years of insufficient import coal. But around the Hüttwil lakes too, people “dug, stabbed and dredged”. And further, Heinrich Tanner, chairman of the Thurgauische Naturforschende Gesellschaft , wrote ten years later: “Every now and then one had the impression that half of Switzerland wanted to warm itself at the expense of Thurgau, and the nature conservation commission tormented with fear when they saw their beautiful moors with the rare flora so endangered. Fortunately for us, the cantonal peat commissioner was a humane man, as well as the president of our peat commission and at the same time a member of our board, so that we always found the greatest possible accommodation, for which we are now sincerely grateful to Mr. Weber.
Settlements
Location of the sites on the Horn peninsula
Lost property
The Seebach valley was visited by hunters and gatherers for hunting and fishing as early as the Mesolithic , i.e. 9500 - 5500 BC. From the Neolithic period, the area also offered ideal living conditions for the first settlers.
The first early piles were discovered around the «Inseli» around 1860. In the 1920s, private individuals dived for Stone Age objects, but their significance was not realized.
During a subsidence during the Second World War, around a fifth of a prehistoric settlement area was exposed in 1943, one of the four pile dwellings ( Arbon , Eschenz , Hüttwilen and Gachnang ) in Thurgau, which have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps since 2011 . This site has been suspected since 1900 and researched around 1930. In 1985, the first of six excavations began in order to prevent possible damage to the excavation area, which was constantly drying out. A four-volume research report is available on this. From 1988 to 1991, exploratory boreholes around the «Inseli» brought numerous finds to light.
Since the lake level was much lower during the Pfyn culture (3800-3550 BC), a larger area was available for the settlement area. Remnants of a village that has been settled and abandoned several times have been well preserved thanks to subsequent flooding.
The village in the Late Bronze Age (870–850 BC) consisted of around a hundred wooden houses. They had an inner surface of 10 to 25 m² and lay on wooden planks and clay floors. A large area in the middle of the village may have served as a meeting place. Numerous ceramic shards, some with colorful decorations, jewelry, everyday objects made of bronze, wood, stone or glass were recovered. When the lake level rose due to climatic changes, the village was abandoned. Another village complex from the Iron Age has not yet been investigated.
→ see also section Pre-Roman times in the article Uerschhausen
Development
A footpath leads around the Nussbaumersee, which is open to visitors. There are three official swimming spots and an observation tower.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mittelländische Kleinseen , Verlag der Meteorit
- ↑ Annual Report of the Governing Council in 1917 , Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau 2'33'9, p 113
- ↑ Friedrich Mann: Mittheilungen the Thurgauischen Naturforschenden Verein about its activities in the years 1855/57 , in: Mitteilungen der Thurgauischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Vol. 1, S. 3–8.
- ↑ Hüttwilen-Nussbaumersee. Research history ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 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. . Office for Archeology of the Canton of Thurgau, Schlossmühlestrasse 15a, Frauenfeld
- ↑ Research in the Seebachtal , Volume 1–4, Series: Archeology in Thurgau. Publisher: Department for Education and Culture of the Canton of Thurgau, 2010. ISBN 978-3-905405-14-9
