Rapperswil-Jona/Hombrechtikon–Feldbach

Rapperswil-Jona/Hombrechtikon–Feldbach or commonly Seegubel is one of the 111 serial sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, of which are 56 located in Switzerland.[1][2]

The site of the prehistoric settlement as seen from the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft (ZSG) motorship Helvetia
stone axe found at the site
samples of the different tools found at Seegubel

Geography

Seegubel is located on Zürichsee lakeshore in Feldbach and partially in Kempraten, a locality of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Situated nearby the Seedamm, an isthmus between the Zürichsee and the Obersee lake area, it was in close vicinity to the prehistoric lake crossings, neighbored by three other Prehistoric pile dwelling settlements: Freienbach–Hurden Rosshorn, Freienbach–Hurden Seefeld and Rapperswil-Jona–Technikum. Because the lake has grown in size over time, the original piles are now around 4 metres (13 ft) to 7 metres (23 ft) under the water level of 406 metres (1,332 ft). The settlement comprises 7.5 hectares (18.53 acres), and the buffer zone including the lake area comprises 15.5 hectares (38.30 acres) in all.

Description

Distinctive house plans and a cultural layer dating from the middle phase of the Corded Ware period, is of particular importance in that multi-phase settlement, commonly named Seegubel. The evidence of a settlement from the transitional phase between the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, is another interesting aspect of the site, yielded a date of 1490 BC, which is very late within the Early Bronze Age pile-dwelling period. The dates refer to the same period as the transport routes across the lake from Rosshorn in Hurden and the slightly post-date neighbouring island settlement in Rapperswil.[3]

Finds

Highly remarkable are the remains of the stone axe production from the 4th to 3rd millennium BC, including tees, pieces with saw wafers, semi-finished products and finished blades, which show the manufacturing processes. The most common materials include green rocks, serpentinites and flint also for knives and arrowheads.[4][5]

Protection

As well as being part of the 56 Swiss sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, the settlement is also listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as a Class A object of national importance.[6] Hence, the area of each settlement is provided as a historical site under federal protection, within the meaning of the Swiss Federal Act on the nature and cultural heritage (German: Bundesgesetz über den Natur- und Heimatschutz NHG) of 1 July 1966. Unauthorised researching and purposeful gathering of findings represent a criminal offense according to Art. 24.[7]

See also

Literature

References

  1. ↑ "Prehistoric Pile Dwellings in Switzerland". Swiss Coordination Group UNESCO Palafittes (palafittes.org). Retrieved 2014-12-07.
  2. ↑ "World Heritage". palafittes.org. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
  3. ↑ "Sites Switzerland: Rapperswil-Jona/Hombrechtikon–Feldbach (CH-SG-02)". palafittes.org. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
  4. ↑ Der See erzählt, touring exhibition at Stadthaus Rapperswil, 24 January 2011
  5. ↑ "Unterwasserarchäologie" (in German). Hochbaudepartement Stadt Zürich. Retrieved 2014-12-11.
  6. ↑ "Schweizerisches Inventar der Kulturgüter von nationaler Bedeutung: Kanton St. Gallen, A-Objekte" (PDF) (in German). bevoelkerungsschutz.admin.ch. 2015-01-01. Retrieved 2015-09-14.
  7. ↑ "Bundesgesetz über den Natur- und Heimatschutz (NHG)" (PDF) (in German). Hochbaudepartement Stadt Zürich. 2014-10-12. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  8. ↑ Beat Eberschweiler (2004). "Ur- und frühgeschichtliche Verkehrswege über den Zürichsee: Erste Ergebnisse aus den Taucharchäologischen Untersuchungen beim Seedamm" (in German). ETH Bibliothek. Retrieved 2014-12-08.

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