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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 the prehistoric settlement
Wetzikon–Robenhausen
, discovered and researched by
Jakob Messikommer
(1828–1917), which became a serial site of the
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps
. In Roman era, along
Pfäffikersee
there was a
Roman road
from the
vicus
Centum Prata
(
Kempraten
) on
Obersee
–
Lake Zürich
via
Vitudurum
(
Oberwinterthur
) to
Tasgetium
(
Eschenz
) to the Rhine. To secure this important transport route, the
Irgenhausen Castrum
was built.
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