the glacier of the last, the würm ice age (115,000 to 11,500 years before today) did not reach the municipality, but remained stuck south of bad saulgau. his melt waters filled the schwarzachtal with gravel. the glacial landscape in front of the glacier's forehead was a deep frozen, almost treeless arctic cold desert. in the arctic summer, the earth thawed superficially, flowed as mud to the base of a slope or was flooded by the rain, the steep slopes flattened: the old landscape took on the sanded soft shapes that we know today.