Wetzikon–Robenhausen 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. The site is located on Pfäffikersee lakeshore in Robenhausen, a locality of the municipality of Wetzikon in the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
The Robenhauser Ried, named after the locality of Robenhausen, as seen from Jucker Farm at Seegräben; Wetzikon in the background; Wetzikon's locality of Kempten to the left.
Jakob Messikommer's excavations around 1900
Messikommer Eich
Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps
Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps are a series of prehistoric pile dwelling settlements in and around the Alps built from about 5000 to 500 BC on the edges of lakes, rivers or wetlands. In 2011, 111 sites located variously in Switzerland (56), Italy (19), Germany (18), France (11), Austria (5) and Slovenia (2) were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. In Slovenia, these were the first World Heritage Sites to be listed for their cultural value.
Reconstructed pile dwellings at the Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen on Lake Constance in Germany
Neolithic palafitte at Ledro, Italy
Patterns of pile dwellings ceramics, Lake Bourget, Savoy, 1915
Ceramics of palafittes of Lake Bourget, Savoy, 1915
