Zurich-Enge-Alpenquai

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View from Uetliberg to the location of the lakeside settlement
Location at today's Bürkliplatz
Plan sketch of Bauschänzli , then to the east of it Alpenquai, Kleiner and Grosser Hafner on a plan sketch by Ferdinand Keller

Zurich-Enge-Alpenquai is a prehistoric settlement in the lower basin of Lake Zurich in the area of ​​the city of Zurich in Switzerland . It is in the immediate vicinity of the Kleiner Hafner , the Grossen Hafner and the remains of the settlement at Bauschänzli and is part of the lakeside settlements in the Alpine region (UNESCO World Heritage Site) .

Location and findings

The Alpenquai settlement was about 50 meters east of today's Bürkliplatz on the right bank of the lake basin in the Lindenhof district . 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 about two meters below the surface of the water. Layer pressures and subsidence also have an effect on the location of the archaeological layers , and so the original location of the prehistoric villages cannot be inferred from today's.

Due to the almost uninterrupted settlement between 1050 BC. BC and 800 BC Chr., The size of the settlement, rich finds and excellent preservation of the layers with unique organic finds and architectural elements, the finding place Alpenquai is considered to be one of the most important late Bronze Age bank settlements in Central Europe. In particular, the last phase of settlement - the transition to the Iron Age - is rarely documented.

UNESCO World Heritage Site and Cultural Property of National Importance

Together with the Kleiner Hafner and Grosser Hafner sites, the settlement remains are among the 111 sites with the greatest scientific potential , which were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List 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.

literature

  • Peter J. Suter et al. : Zurich Kleiner Hafner: diving excavations 1981–1984 . Monographs of Canton Archeology Zurich 3. Verlag Fotorotar, Zurich 1987. ISBN 3-905647-72-9

Web links

Commons : Dig Parkhaus Opéra  - 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 February 17, 2013
  2. ↑ a b [http://www.palafittes.org/de/unesco-welterbe/fundstellen-schweiz/index.html Website palafittes.org: Swiss sites in the UNESCO World Heritage Site] (link not available), in connection with the sites Grosser Hafner and Kleiner Hafner (CH-ZH-10), accessed on February 17, 2013
  3. ↑ 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 17, 2013. (PDF; 163 kB, 32 pages, updated annually, no changes for 2018).

Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '57.9 "  N , 8 ° 32' 33"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-three thousand three hundred and eighty-one  /  two hundred forty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty-five