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Centum Prata
Centum Prata is the name of a Roman ''vicus'', whose remains are located on the eastern Zürichsee lakeshore in Kempraten, a locality of the municipality Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Centum Prata is the most important archaeological site from the Gallo-Roman era in the canton of St. Gallen. Name In the Gallo-Roman era the former ''vicus'' was named ''Centoprato'' (literally: 100 meadows), and in 863 it was mentioned as ''Centiprata'' from which ''Kempraten'' is derived. Unclear due to the naming of the settlement is a Celtic origin respectively a former Celtic settlement. Geography The majority of the remains of commercial, residential, religious and public buildings are situated in Kempraten, some structures in Rapperswil (St. Ursula church and cemetery), as well at St. Martin Busskirch and at the parish church in Jona. There are also Roman era pile remains of the historical bridge between Rapperswil and Hurden in the upper lake Zürich, foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachtel - Kempraten - Kempratnerbucht - Lindenhof Rapperswil 2015-05-27 18-53-25
Bachtel is a mountain of the Zurich Oberland, located between Hinwil and Wald in the canton of Zurich. It lies approximately halfway between the Schnebelhorn (the highest point of the canton) and Lake Zurich. On the summit is the Bachtel Tower, a tall radio tower. The Bachtel range (also ''Allmann'' or ''Allmen'', ''Bachtel-Allmen-Kette'') separates the Töss and Glatt basins. Extending to the north of Bachtel proper, towards Bauma The bauma (International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment) is the world's largest trade fair in the construction industry. The trade fair, which ..., it includes ''Auenberg'' (1050 m), ''Allmen'' (1079 m) and ''Stüssel'' (1051 m). References External linksBachtel on Hikr Mountains of the Alps Mountains of the canton of Zürich Appenzell Alps {{Zurich-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timber Framing
Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. If the structural frame of load-bearing timber is left exposed on the exterior of the building it may be referred to as half-timbered, and in many cases the infill between timbers will be used for decorative effect. The country most known for this kind of architecture is Germany, where timber-framed houses are spread all over the country. The method comes from working directly from logs and trees rather than pre-cut dimensional lumber. Hewing this with broadaxes, adzes, and draw knives and using hand-powered braces and augers (brace and bit) and other woodworking tools, artisans or framers could gradually assemble a building. Since this building method has been used for thousands of years in many parts of the world, many styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitudurum
Vitudurum (sometimes Vitodorum) is the name of a Roman ''vicus'', those remains are located in Oberwinterthur, a locality of the municipality of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Geography The majority of the remains of commercial, residential, religious and public buildings are situated in Oberwinterthur, a locality of the municipality of Winterthur, around the St. Arbogast church, at Unterer Bühl, Kastellweg and Bätmur Flur. Location Vitudurum was established nearby productive resources and a prehistorican route from Lake Geneva to Lake Constance (''Arbor Felix, Brigantium'') in the late first century BC or early first century AD. It was located at the probably route leading to the north ( Ad Fines, Tasgetium), presumably also towards Turicum, and towards the Irgenhausen Castrum and Centum Prata (Kempraten), and on the water transport route Obersee–Linth–Walensee on the Gotthard Pass route towards the Roman heartland in Italy. History The R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irgenhausen Castrum
Irgenhausen Castrum is a Roman fort at Irgenhausen, situated on Pfäffikersee lake shore in Switzerland. It was a square fort, measuring in square, with four corner towers and three additional towers. The remains of a stone wall in the interior were probably a spa. Geography The castrum is situated on the ''Bürglen'' hill in Irgenhausen, a village of the municipality of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. ''Bürglen'' (Swiss German: "small castle") is a high drumlin, from the eastern shore of Pfäffikersee, situated between Pfäffikon and Kempten, the site of another Roman settlement nearby. History In the Roman era, along Pfäffikersee there was a Roman road from Centum Prata (Kempraten) on Obersee–Lake Zürich via Vitudurum (Oberwinterthur) to Tasgetium (Eschenz) on the Rhine. To secure this important transport route, the castrum was built. The native name of the fort is unknown; Irgenhausen was mentioned in AD 811 as ''Camputuna sive Irincheshus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turicum (Zürich)
Turicum was a Gallo-Roman settlement at the lower end of Lake Zurich, and precursor of the city of Zürich. It was situated within the Roman province of Gallia Belgica (from AD 90 Germania Superior) and near the border to the province of Raetia; there was a tax-collecting point for goods traffic on the waterway Walensee– Obersee-Zürichsee–Limmat–Aare–Rhine. Name The ancient name ''Turicum'', along with the indication of a Roman customhouse, is first attested in the epitaph for Lucius Aelius Urbicus, an infant son of the , ‘head of the toll-station at Zurich’, that was found on Lindenhof hill in 1747 and dates from 185/200 AD. Regula Frei-Stolba/Reinhold Kaiser & al., ''Die Römische Zeit'', in: ''Geschichte des Kantons Zürich'', vol. 1: ''Frühzeit bis Spätmittelalter'', Zürich 1995, . The place name reappears in the Early Middle Ages as ''Turicum'', ''Turico'', ''Doricum'', ''Torico'', ''Turigo'', ''Turegum'', and in its Old High German forms ''Ziurichi'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der See Erzählt (Stadthaus) - Kempraten - Seegubel - Fundstücke 2011-01-26 16-06-54
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Lindenhof (Rapperswil)
Lindenhof in Rapperswil is a moraine hill and a public square being the historic center of Rapperswil, Switzerland. Geography Lindenhof hill (its eastern part is called ''Herrenberg'') dominates the old city of Rapperswil, a locality of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Being a moraine remain of the last Glacial period in Switzerland, the area was created as a rocky conglomerate about 20,000 years ago. Its northwestern slope towards the bay of Kempraten on Zürichsee lakeshore is named ''Schlosshalde'', and ''Schlosshügel'', the opposite side of the longish hill, is dominated by the vineyard of that name and Rapperswil's 'official' rose garden towards the harbour area respectively ''Seedamm'' and ''Obersee'' lakeshore. In all, the around long and about wide hill, is surrounded on three sides by water, and rises about above lakeshore level; just the small eastern ''Herrenberg'' area is connected with the landside ''Altstadt'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapperswil-Jona–Technikum
Rapperswil-Jona–Technikum 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. Located on a small former island on '' upper Lake Zürich'' in Rapperswil, a locality of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Canton of St. Gallen. Due to its location on a former island at the medieval ''Heilig Hüsli'' bridge chapel, the site sometimes is also referred to Rapperswil Heilighüsli or ''Inseldorf'', meaning ''island village''. Geography The site is located on a former island on '' upper Lake Zürich'' between the former ''Technicum'' university and the so-called Heilig Hüsli bridge chapel in Rapperswil. Situated at the ''Seedamm'', an isthmus between the ''Zürichsee'' and the ''Obersee'' lake area, the former island settlement was in close vicinity to the prehistoric lake crossings, and neighboured by three other Prehistoric pile dwelling settlements: Freienbach–Hurden Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freienbach–Hurden Seefeld
Freienbach–Hurden Seefeld 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. Geography Hurden-Seefeld is located at the ''Frauenwinkel'' area on ''Zürichsee'' lakeshore in Hurden, a locality of the municipality of Freienbach in the Canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. Situated at the ''Seedamm'', an isthmus between the ''Zürichsee'' and the ''Obersee'' lake area, it was in close vicinity to the prehistoric lake crossings, neighboured by three other Prehistoric pile dwelling settlements: Freienbach–Hurden Rosshorn, Rapperswil-Jona/Hombrechtikon–Feldbach and Rapperswil-Jona–Technikum. Because the lake has grown in size over time, the original piles are now around to under the water level of . The settlement comprises , and the buffer zone including the lake area comprises in all. Description The early Corded ware culture in one of several settlement phases provide dat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freienbach–Hurden Rosshorn
Freienbach–Hurden Rosshorn 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. Geography The site is located on ''Zürichsee'' lakeshore in Hurden, a locality of the municipality of Freienbach in the Canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. Situated at 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, Rapperswil-Jona/Hombrechtikon–Feldbach and Rapperswil-Jona–Technikum. Because the lake has grown in size over time, the original piles are now around to under the water level of . The settlement comprises , and the buffer zone including the lake area comprises in all. Description Freienbach–Hurden Rosshorn provides early evidence of transport routes combined w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feldbach, Hombrechtikon
Feldbach is a village near Rapperswil, Switzerland. It is located on the north bank of the lake of Zurich and is part of the political municipality of Hombrechtikon. In the local dialect it is called ''Fäldbach''. Geography Situated on ''Zürichsee'' lake shore, Feldbach is neighboured by Kempraten, nearby the ''Seedamm'', an isthmus between the ''Zürichsee'' and the ''Obersee'' lake area. Cultural Heritage The Prehistoric pile dwelling site '' Seegubel'' was in close vicinity to the prehistoric lake crossings, and neighboured 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 to under the water level of . As well as being part of the 56 Swiss sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Site ''Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps'', the Prehistoric settlmemnt '' Seegubel'' is also listed in the Swiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Around Zürichsee
Prehistoric pile dwellings around Lake Zurich comprises 11 – or 10% of all European pile dwelling sites – of a total of 56 prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps in Switzerland, that are located around Lake Zurich in the Cantons of Switzerland, cantons of Canton of Schwyz, Schwyz, Canton of St. Gallen, St. Gallen and Canton of Zürich, Zürich. Geography These 11 – including one further on the nearby ''Greifensee (lake), Greifensee'' and Robenhausen on ''Pfäffikersee'' lakeshore – prehistoric Stilt house, pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements were built from around 5000 BC to 500 BC and are concentrated within an area of about , on Lake Zurich respectively Obersee (Zürichsee), ''Obersee'' lakeshore in the Cantons of Switzerland, cantons of Canton of Schwyz, Schwyz, Canton of St. Gallen, St. Gallen and Canton of Zürich, Zürich. As part of a series of, in all, 111 European prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, they were added to the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
