Pfäffikersee [SEP] named after
Pfäffikersee
Pfäffikersee (or "Lake Pfäffikon") is a lake in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, near the town of Pfäffikon. It is 2.5 km long and 1.3 km wide at the middle. The lake was created in the last ice age when a moraine blocked off the ability for the lake to empty north towards Winterthur. There is also a hiking trail around the lake that people often bike and walk on, and the area is considered protected lands, among them the "Robenhauser Ried" and
also due to inundation with work, and his son Heinrich (1864–?) was not interested in taking over the farm, but certainly assisted his father's archaeological work. That's why he sold his farm to a neighbor on 26 September 1890, excluded the lands at the Robenhausen site where Messikommer had established the analogy to a present archaeological open air museum. By discovering and exploring the then usually named "stilt house settlement Robenhausen" within the "Robenhausen" wetlands on Pfäffikersee, Messikommer became famous from the 1860s far