Uhldingen-Mühlhofen: Stilt Houses and Time Trail
Accommodation in Uhldingen-Mühlhofen
The Uhldingen Time Trail offers routes to sights and monuments in Unteruhldingen, the stilt houses provide archaeological insights, and the natural beach offers another connection to the water. Nearby, the Birnau Pilgrimage Church adds Baroque architecture and religious history to the mix. The range thus extends from walking and museums to a distinctive cultural destination.
Uhldingen Time Trail: Routes and Course
The long loop of the Uhldingen Time Trail is 4.8 km long and leads to Unteruhldingen’s key sights and monuments. The western loop is 2.5 km long, takes about 45 minutes and follows the Ehbach stream into the Stone Age and to the open-air stilt house museum. By comparison, the western loop is the shorter one; its stated duration gives an approximate guide for the walk. Before setting out, it is advisable to check the current signs on site.
Stilt Houses: Virtual Insights and Historic Building Techniques
At the Unteruhldingen Stilt House Museum, ARCHAEORAMA and the EXPLORER TRAIL offer two different ways to explore the subject. At ARCHAEORAMA, visitors take a virtual dive to the stilt houses in Lake Constance. The EXPLORER TRAIL includes a stilt house cinema, where experimental archaeologists introduce visitors to the house-building techniques of the time. This brings together a virtual view of the stilt houses in the lake and explanations of historic construction methods. The Unteruhldingen stilt houses in the Lake Constance district are Germany’s oldest archaeological open-air museum. Check the museum’s current exhibition information before your visit.
Natural Beach and Birnau Pilgrimage Church
The natural beach in Unteruhldingen has a beach volleyball court and a playground. This offers a different focus from the route and museum: the beach features two specific leisure amenities. Nearby, Birnau Pilgrimage Church lies between Nußdorf, a district of Überlingen, and Uhldingen-Mühlhofen. The magnificent Baroque church stands amid vineyards high above the lake. It is a monastery cared for by Cistercians and a well-known pilgrimage site.
Lake Constance District: The Regional Setting
The Lake Constance district provides the wider regional setting. It extends along almost the entire northern shore of Lake Constance in Baden-Württemberg, reaches into the Upper Swabian hill country and, to the east, into the West Allgäu hill country. The Lake Constance district has 57.7 kilometres of lakeshore; its landscape is shaped by the lake and the adjoining hills, with fruit crops, vineyards, meadows and forests.
Other regional attractions include Salem Abbey and Castle, founded as a Cistercian monastery in 1134 and one of the most beautiful and significant cultural monuments in the Lake Constance region. In Überlingen, Bodensee-Therme combines thermal bathing, sauna infusions, its own bathing beach and panoramic views of Lake Constance and the Alps. Its thermal water is drawn from a depth of more than 1,006 metres and flows into all the warm-water pools. The region’s attractions thus range from landscapes and monastic history to thermal bathing.
Discover more destinations: Unteruhldingen, Oberuhldingen, Überlingen, Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Heiligenberg, Hagnau am Bodensee, Kressbronn am Bodensee, Beuren
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