{"id":3787,"date":"2026-04-29T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/open-air-museum\/architektur-haus1\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:45:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:45:56","slug":"case-study-house-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/open-air-museum\/case-study-house-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Case study house 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='a'  class='avia-section av-6boj-964839248dbaa131430c011e9e66912b main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-3787'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-xke3-96c4b674a30a3471a9bbcaf7b1f7955b av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lw9ee3ch-695f9a5bc92c92364c5c9aa4fc2afcfc\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-lw9ee3ch-695f9a5bc92c92364c5c9aa4fc2afcfc{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-lw9ee3ch-695f9a5bc92c92364c5c9aa4fc2afcfc .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-lw9ee3ch-695f9a5bc92c92364c5c9aa4fc2afcfc .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-lw9ee3ch-695f9a5bc92c92364c5c9aa4fc2afcfc av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Case study:<br \/>\nUnteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen, House 5<br \/>\nHow is a house reconstruction carried out? <\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lw6p7skz-3879436eebab07eb7e420d4d7b81001b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Not only in Unteruhldingen, but in many places across the Alpine region, remains of Bronze Age settlements dating from 2200 to 850 BC have been preserved. Around Lake Constance alone, there were some 45 sites, mostly covering an area of one to two hectares. They were situated in locations with good transport links in the western Lake Constance region. Around 120 further Bronze Age settlements have been identified at other lakes in the Alpine foothills. The outlines of the village sites and the remains of the pile-dwelling houses preserved on the lake bed are, in some cases, clearly visible. With the help of dendrochronology \u2013 the analysis of tree-ring patterns in cross-sections of wood \u2013 it is possible to narrow down the period of construction. However, reconstructing a house requires more than just knowledge of its age and floor plan. What did it look like? How were the walls and floors constructed? How high above the lake bed was the platform on which the houses were built? To answer these and other questions, a jigsaw of information is being pieced together.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest settlement in Unteruhldingen comprised 87 houses dating from 975 to 953 BC. Five of these houses were selected for reconstruction at the Pile-dwelling Museum. The findings from the archaeological underwater surveys carried out served as the scientific basis for this work. Further information, such as details on the construction of the houses, was provided by the excavation results from contemporary settlements in south-west Germany, Switzerland and Italy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>House 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>House 5 <\/strong>on the excavation plan<\/p>\n<p><strong>House 5<\/strong> on the village plan<\/p>\n<p><strong>House 5<\/strong> with a forward-leaning ridge line<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sagging roof:<\/strong> burial urn, 7th century BC, Neu-K\u00f6nigsaue, Saxony-Anhalt<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wattle-and-daub walls:<\/strong> Unteruhldingen, Hagnau, Lake Constance<\/p>\n<p><strong>Split-plank walls:<\/strong> Wasserburg-Buchau, Federsee<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ridge post:<\/strong> 11.20 m, Hauterive, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roof finial:<\/strong> Urn, Vetulonia, 9th century BC, Northern Italy<\/p>\n<p>Conical-necked vessel, Schirndorf, 8th century BC, Bavaria<\/p>\n<p>Painted clay plaster, Ludwigshafen, 39th century BC, Lake Constance<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roof angle:<\/strong> Wasserburg-Buchau<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wattle-and-daub walls:<\/strong> Hagnau, Wasserburg-Buchau<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":1692,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3787","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5281,"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3787\/revisions\/5281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}