Werd (Lake Constance)
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The Werd Island is the main island of the small archipelago Im Werd ( Werd Islands) in the western part of the Lower Lake Constance before the High Rhine leaves the part of the lake Rheinsee. It is located on Swiss territory between Stein am Rhein and Eschenz.
History
The Expectant BC was inhabited as early as 5000 by pile-dwellers. Since the Middle Stone Age stone tools of hunter-gatherers are detected. In the Neolithic the Expectant was an ideal place to settle. Between 1931 and 1935 excavations took place under the direction of Karl Keller - Tarnuzzer. Many items such as stone axes, arrowheads, a sickle of flint, pottery shards, fish-hooks made of bone from the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age came to light. From the Bronze Age tools, weapons and jewelry found. Raymund network Hammer spent at this time of his life by Werd monastery and experienced the excavations with, he wrote some articles. Involved in the excavation were Charles Albert Sulzberger, Louis Reverdin and Hans Bessler. Among the many visitors, among other things, Eugen Tatarinoff.
In winter 2005/2006, there was an extreme low level of Lake Constance, which uncovered large waterfront areas and prehistoric objects. A selection of these as well as Roman and medieval original finds are exhibited at the entrance of the refectory on the island of Werd. Other important finds are now housed in the Museum of Archaeology in Frauenfeld and the local museum in Eschenz.
2011, the former villages have been recorded with another 110 sites in six Alpine countries by UNESCO in the inventory of the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The Romans built 50 AD a Pfahljochbrücke between Raetia and Germania and used the islands in the middle of the Rhine as an abutment. The two bridge sections having a length of 220 and 217 meters and a width of six meters. The Roman road, called in the literature " Rhaetian boundary road ," led by the Vicus Tasgetium ( Eschenz ) about Rielasingen, Singing, Friedingen, Steisslingen, Orsingen, Vilsingen, Inzigkofen after Laiz to a ford across the River Danube. In Orsingen there was a turnoff to Pfullendorf and Burgweiler. In the area of droughts road there is a junction on pig pits, on the Ablachtal after Meßkirch, Krauchenwies and quantity Ennetach.
St. Otmar, first abbot of the monastery of St. Gall, was sent in 759 to Expectant into exile, where he died on 16 November of the same year. To his memory stands the 15th century the St. Otmarskapelle on the main island. The island belongs to the Benedictine monastery of Einsiedeln, but is leased by the Franciscans who live in the chapel attached house.
Connection with the mainland
A 200 -meter long pedestrian bridge made of wood for the monastery inmates and visitors to the monastery church leads to the island.
Geography
The main island of Werd with an area of 1.59 hectares belongs to the municipality Eschenz ( district Untereschenz ) of the Swiss canton of Thurgau. It is connected via a 125 meter long wooden bridge to the mainland of Eschenz.
The other two islands in the group are members of the Stein am Rhein in the canton of Schaffhausen. They are uninhabited, making the nature reserve and bird sanctuary Middle and lower Werdli. The island median Werdli is 0.4 hectares, the Lower Werdli 0.6 hectares.
The boundary between the cantons of Thurgau and Schaffhausen here follows the center line of the Rhine.
As a geographical boundary between submarine and Rheinsee and the High Rhine, the Rhine bridge is in Stein am Rhein. The Expectant islands lie just above the bridge and are therefore Bodensee islands, not river islands. The western tip of the Lower Werdli still lies 320 meters above the Rhine bridge.