Seegubel

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Seegubel is the archaeological site of a wetland settlement in Lake Zurich in the area of ​​the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The site is part of the lakeside settlements in the Alpine region (UNESCO World Heritage Site) .

Location and findings

A shaft ax from the Seegubel site
Knives and stone blades

Seegubel is the name of a bay on the east bank of Lake Zurich between Feldbach and the archaeological site Centum Prata near Kempraten, northwest of Rapperswil . Remains of stone ax production from the 4th to 3rd millennium BC are considered remarkable. BC, including cuts , pieces with saw cuts, semi-finished products and finished blades that show the manufacturing process. The most common materials include green rock and serpentinite, and flint stones for knives and arrowheads.

The most informative findings of the wetland settlement are dated to a middle phase of the corded ceramics from the transition phase from the Early to the Middle Bronze Age, in " ... the same period as the bridge structures over the lake ... " and a little later than the site at the technical center in Rapperswil. The settlement dates to the " ... same period as the early bridge constructions over the narrow lake between Rapperswil and Hurden-Rosshorn ". The multi-phase site contains distinguishable house floor plans and the cultural layer of a middle phase of the Cord Ceramics as well as a settlement from the transition phase from the Early to the Middle Bronze Age (1490 BC) This settlement phase falls in the same period as the lake crossings between the settlements of Freienbach-Hurden- Rosshorn (CH-SZ-01) and Rapperswil and dates shortly after the Rapperswil-Jona-Technikum (CH-SG-02) site.

UNESCO World Heritage Site and Cultural Property of National Importance

Together with the Rapperswil – Jona – Technikum, Freienbach – Hurden – Rosshorn sites and the prehistoric and historical lake crossings between Rapperswil and Hurden , the remains of the settlement are among the 111 sites with the greatest scientific potential , which were part of the lakeside settlements in the Alpine region on June 27, 2011 were included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites .

In the Swiss inventory of cultural assets of national importance , the wet soil settlements as well as the area of ​​the so-called sea dam with the prehistoric and medieval bridges are listed as class A objects.

literature

  • Beat Eberschweiler: Prehistoric and early historical traffic routes across Lake Zurich: First results from the diving archaeological investigations at the Seedamm . In: Announcements of the Historical Association of the Canton of Schwyz, Edition 96, Schwyz 2004.

Web links

Commons : The lake tells  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Internet site UNESCO World Heritage Center (June 27, 2011), press release Six new sites inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List , accessed on March 3, 2013
  2. ↑ Traveling exhibition The lake tells , information boards in the town hall Rapperswil-Jona, January 24, 2011
  3. ↑ a b c palafittes.org: Swiss sites in the UNESCO World Heritage Site ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 February 15, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.palafittes.org
  4. ↑ palafittes.org: Swiss sites in the UNESCO World Heritage Site ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Rapperswil-Jona / Hombrechtikon-Feldbach ( Seegubel , CH-SG-01), Rapperswil-Jona-Technikum (CH-SG-02), Freienbach-Hurden-Rosshorn (CH-SZ-01) together with the prehistoric and historical lake crossings , accessed February 15, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.palafittes.org
  5. ↑ A – Objects SG 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 February 15, 2013 (PDF; 87 kB, 15 pages, updated annually, no changes for 2018).
  6. ↑ 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 February 15, 2013. (PDF; 163 kB, 32 pages, updated annually, no changes for 2018).

Coordinates: 47 ° 14 '16.1 "  N , 8 ° 48' 30.6"  E ; CH1903:  703720  /  two hundred thirty-two thousand seven hundred seventy-nine