| THE HISTORY OF ZURICH - THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD | SELECTION LIST MENUE ZURICH |
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| 12,000 B.C. |
At the end of the last Ice Age glacier ‘Linth’ receded leaving a moraine between the three hills of Zurich (the present-day locations of the Church in ‘Enge’, the ‘Lindenhof’ and the ‘Hohe Promenade’). The lake of Zurich was created to the south of this moraine.
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The first settlements around the lake of Zurich were only tem- porarily inhabited. In 1854 piles from a settlement on the lake of Zurich were discovered and it was assumed that these had been dwellings in the lake. What was not taken into consid- eration was that at that time the water level of the lake was lower. So in fact it is much more likely that all these settle- ments were on the shore rather than in the lake. |
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In the settlement near the ‘Seestrasse’, wooden wheels and an axle dating from the 3rd millenium B.C. were found. The wheels are made of 2 wooden planks joined by 3 wooden cross braces and are 50 cm in diameter.
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In the river Limmat axes, daggers and sickles dating from the bronze age (1500 B.C.) were found. The location makes it unlikely that these blades were lost while crossing a river or as a result of a shipwreck, but they are proof that the area around the ‘Lindenhof’ - later the site of the Roman village - was already inhabited at this time.
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This vessel, in form of a bird from the Bronze Age (1000 B.C.), was found near the ‘Alpenquai’. The numerous findings in this area dating from different cultural periods prove that this settlement must have existed for several centuries.
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| 500 B.C. |
Celtic colonisation of the area (La Tene period). The Roman name of Zurich -Turicum- originates from the Celtic name ‘Turus’.
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