page_title: Robenhausen
section_title: UNESCO World Heritage Site
hierarchical_section_title: Robenhausen / UNESCO World Heritage Site
caption_attribution_description: Jakob Messikommer, Robenhausen in Wetzikon (Switzerland)&#160;: Ausgrabungarbeiten im Robenhauserriet.
context_page_description: Robenhausen is a locality in Wetzikon, one of the municipalities of the canton of Zürich, Switzerland. The wetland Robenhauser Ried belongs to the protected area surrounding Pfäffikersee. The prehistoric pile dwelling around Lake Zurich Wetzikon-Robenhausen is part of the UNESCO-defined World Heritage Sites, the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.
context_section_description: The area at the southern end of the Pfäffikersee lake shore has been inhabited for over 10,000 years. Neolithic hunters and collectors built during the European Mesolithic at various locations storage bins, and in the Neolithic period several small, permanently inhabited settlements near the shore. 
  The remains of the Neolithic settlements in the protected marsh area were discovered by Jakob Messikommer between 1856 and 1858. On occasion of several excavations to the 1900s, Messikommer reported the discovery of numerous individual finds, and first, he also interpreted two different layers a settlement that was rebuilt, and in fact he was right. Jakob Messikommer's achievements were honored with a memorial stone and the so-called Messikomer Eich, an oak in the Robenhausen reed.
  The prehistoric settlement is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps, being one of 111 locations with the greatest scientific potential. In the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national significance Robenhausen is listed as Class A object.
caption: Jakob Messikommer's excavations around 1900
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