Your Visit
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To Another World
The pile dwellings embody an unfamiliar world and yet appear natural and familiar. Take your time to explore, experience and enjoy.
Your Visit
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To Another World
The pile dwellings embody an unfamiliar world and yet appear natural and familiar. Take your time to explore, experience and enjoy.
Time Travel
Your visit in the Pile Dwellings of Unteruhldingen is a time out.
Ontop of the wooden piles, past periods of human history come back to life.
Rise, blossom and fall are omnipresent. The pile dwelling cultures of the Stone and Bronze Ages convey stories from another world.
From 4,300 To 847 BC
Your visit starts inside our “New Museum” at the shores of Lake Constance. Explore the wooden stilt houses of the pile dwellers, where you will learn everything you need to know about the life 6,000 and 3,000 years ago: See how people built their dwellings into the lake. Understand how the piles were worked and how modern day archaeologists were able to rebuilt these enigmatic buildings from the Stone and Bronze Ages. Become enchanted by the World Heritage of the pile dwellings!
The New Museum At The Lake
The impressive wooden structure of our New Museum is both a visitor center as well as an exhibition hall. You can design your own route or book a guided tour in English or French.
The ARCHAEORAMA-3D-Show
Experience the lost heritage of the pile dwellers deep inside Lake Constance – without getting wet! The ARCHAEORAMA-3D-Show is available in both English and French.
The World Heritage
Underwater pile dwelling research uses the latest archaeological methods to secure scientific findings.
Exhibition:
100 Years Of Pfahlbauten Unteruhldingen
On March 12, 1922, 67 men and women came together in Unteruhldingen to found the Association for Pile Dwelling and Regional History. On August 1st, the first two pile dwellings were inaugurated and the open-air museum was opened. In the anniversary year of 2022, we launched a new special exhibition, which you can visit while following your tour through the museum.
The Bronze Age Village Of Bad Buchau
The specialists and privileged people appear in this village: potters, foundries, bead makers, shepherds, fishermen – but also the clan chief with all his luxury goods.
The Bronze Age Village Of Uhldingen-Stollenwiesen
Reconstructions provide an insight into ancient times. Living areas, workshops, stables with pets, pictures of life, but also the ideas of the afterlife at the time of the last pile dwellers can be experienced.
The Stone Age Village Of Sipplingen
From 3,800 to 2,800 BC: Within the palisades, people sought protection from the forces of the lake, enemies and wild animals.
Do You Know The Iceman?
Or Uhldi, his relative from Lake Constance?
How did they live, what did they wear, and what was their health and diet?
Stone Age Course
How did people build their houses 6000 years ago? How were heavy building trunks transported and what were the roofs covered with? Find out in our Stone Age course. Experimental archaeologists await you here. They will tell you about the various aspects of house construction. There are also hands-on activities for children and their families.
Enjoy The Lake
After your tour through the museum, you have the opportunity to sit down and relax at the lakeside or on the meadow along its shore.