title: Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen
text: # Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen
  
  Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen (German for 'Stilt house museum') is an archaeological open-air museum on Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Unteruhldingen, Germany, consisting of reconstructions of stilt houses or lake dwellings from the Neolithic and Bronze Age.
  
  ## Museum
  
  The museum consists of a number of exhibits displaying archeological finds from the area and period.
  
  ## Reconstructions
  
  The archaeological open-air museum is laid out over a large area with reconstructions of lake pile dwellings from 4000 BC to 850 BC. The museum was opened in 1922 with various reconstructions being added up until the present day.
  
  ### Bronze age village “Bad Buchau”
  
  Is an idealistic reconstruction of late Bronze Age buildings on a platform, built between 1923 and 1931.
  
  ### Bronze age village “Unteruhldingen”
  
  A number of dwellings built between 1999 and 2002.
  
  ### Stone age houses “Riedschachen/Schussenried”
  
  In 1922, the first two stilt houses were erected. They are based on archaeological excavations in a bog close to the Federsee near Bad Schussenried in 1920 where remains of a Neolithic settlement of 4000 BC were found.
  
  ### SWR Stone Age village
  
  Building moved to the site, originally used in the TV program “Steinzeit - Das Experiment. Leben wie vor 5000 Jahren”
  
  ### Stone age village “Sipplingen”
  
  Built between 1938 and 1940 based on early stone age stilt dwellings.
  
  ### “Hornstaad-House” and “Arbon-House”
  
  Stone age reconstructions built between 1996 and 1998.
  
  