View into the past
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| Pile dwellings in Uhldingen |
Already in the Mesolithic period (8000 - 5000 B.C.) the Linzgau was demonstrably settled. Dated to the New Stone Age are those extremely admitted and archaeologically valuable pile dwellings at the banks of Lake Constance, which you can find also in the Lake Egelsee near Ruhestetten and were established until the Bronze Age (2200 - 800 B.C.).
Grave mounds near Hoedingen, Salem and Stetten from the 6th Century B.C. witness from a celtic past, like also a late celtic square-dig near Aach-Linz. Afterwards up to the 3rd Century A.D. the Linzgau belonged to the sphere of influence of the Roman realm.
After the retreat of the Romans some Germanic groups settled in the Linzgau. Unfortunately archaeological finds of the early Alemanni are rare, but in the 4th Century A.D. the roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus mentioned an alemannic tribe who named themselves "Lentienser" after the celtic river name "Lentia" and is called in the historical sources to be a particularly rowdy tribe...
