Lake Federsee
Lake Federsee is a reminder of the colder times in Europe when the Alpine glaciers reached as far as Upper Swabian city of Bad Buchau.
The health resort Bad Buchau, today known for its Rehabilitational Clinic and the birthplace of Albert Einsteins’s father Hermann Einstein (1847-1902), is the place to begin a visit to the Lake Federsee Nature Resort. Left behind by melting glaciers, the lake has slowly developed into a marshland that once covered an area much larger than what we see today.
Archeological findings have discovered that the lake was home to homo sapiens for thousands of years. Dwellings from the stone age, the bronze age and the celtic period are exhibited in the Federsee living museum. Exploited and polluted by homo sapiens industrilensis in recent centuries, the Naturschutzbund (NABU) is now successfully reestablishing the natural habitat of the Federsee marshland. They offer a small exibition and regular guided tours into the marshland.
Reconstructed stone age dwelling