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29-806: The history of Feldafing begins on the Roseninsel or Rose Island, the only island in Lake Starnberg. This area has been inhabited since as early as the Neolithic Period . Feldafing is also well known for the Hotel Kaiserin Elisabeth. Both places (Roseninsel and Kaiserin Elisabeth) were favorite vacation spots for the Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria ("Sisi"). The name Feldafing is presumably of Bavarian origin. The earliest record of

58-519: A turtle and built over water surface (e.g. rivers). Arbi et al. (2013) have also noted the striking similarities between Austronesian architecture and Japanese traditional raised architecture ( shinmei-zukuri ). Particularly the buildings of the Ise Grand Shrine , which contrast with the pit-houses typical of the Neolithic Yayoi period . They propose significant Neolithic contact between

87-567: A Bavarian building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Stilt house Stilt houses (also called pile dwellings or lake dwellings ) are houses raised on stilts (or piles) over the surface of the soil or a body of water . Stilt houses are built primarily as a protection against flooding ; they also keep out vermin . The shady space under the house can be used for work or storage. Stilt houses are commonly found in Southeast Asia, Oceania, Central America,

116-620: A garden house. It was through the planning of the rotunda of roses in the Villa's garden that the Roseninsel, previously called Wörth, earned its name. King Ludwig II adored the Roseninsel and visited it often. The island was also said to have served as a meeting place for the king and his cousin, the Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria . Today the island is host to a Villa museum, the beautiful preserved gardens, and various musical and cultural events. The more recent history of Feldafing begins with

145-760: A golf course was built in Feldafing, one of the first in Germany. Afterwards, other recreation centers such as a beach and tennis club were built. The park and the Rose Island are currently being restored by the Bavarian Administration for State Villas, Gardens and Lakes to their original condition. During the Nazi era, Feldafing was the site of an elite school of the Nazi Party , the " Reichsschule Feldafing " (one its students

174-608: A network of displaced persons camps for Jewish Holocaust survivors in the US Zone in Bavaria. Feldafing station is served in either twenty- or forty-minute intervals by S-Bahn line 6 of the Munich S-Bahn towards the neighboring Tutzing station or towards Munich . The autobahn A952 begins in Starnberg , offering a connection to Munich or Garmisch-Partenkirchen . While traveling on

203-831: A prehistoric Austronesian network. In South Asia, stilt houses are very common in Northeast India , specifically the Brahmaputra Valley regions of Assam , which is extremely prone to regional flooding from the Brahmaputra. These houses are known as chang ghar in Assamese , and as kare okum in Mising ; chang ghar are traditionally built by the Mising people , who live along the Brahmaputra. Unlike many forms of traditional architecture, including stilt architecture, in South and Southeast Asia,

232-425: A single tall post also had ritual importance and were used to isolate high-born children during their training for leadership. The majority of Austronesian structures are not permanent. They are made from perishable materials like wood, bamboo, plant fiber, and leaves. Because of this, archaeological records of prehistoric Austronesian structures are usually limited to traces of house posts, with no way of determining

261-535: Is the only island in the lake and the site of a royal villa of Ludwig II of Bavaria which had been commissioned by his father. He was particularly attached to this place and made frequent renovations and remodelings of the small garden and the villa, which is called the Casino . Guests on the island included the composer Richard Wagner , his close friend Prince Paul of Thurn and Taxis , Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. The villa

290-620: Is today a small museum, open to the general public and is accessible by a small ferry ride. It was declared part of the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2011 as one of the 111 locations under the Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps listing. [REDACTED] Media related to Roseninsel at Wikimedia Commons 47°56′28″N 11°18′32″E  /  47.941°N 11.309°E  / 47.941; 11.309 This article about

319-635: The Amazon and Orinoco river systems. Stilt houses were such a prevalent feature along the shores of Lake Maracaibo that Amerigo Vespucci was inspired to name the region "Venezuela" (little Venice). As the costs of hurricane damage increase, more and more houses along the Gulf Coast are being built as or converted to stilt houses. Stilt houses are also still common in parts of the Mosquito Coast in northeastern Nicaragua , and in northern Brazil as well as

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348-659: The Late Neolithic . In the late 20th century, stilt houses in extremely calm ocean water became a popular form of tourist lodging known as overwater bungalows ; the trend began in French Polynesia and quickly spread to other tourist locations, especially in tropical locales. Stilt houses in China known as guījiǎfángwū ( simplified Chinese : 龟甲房屋 ; traditional Chinese : 龜甲房屋 ; lit. 'turtle shell house') because Chinese stilt house structures inspired from

377-809: The Ljubljana Marsh in Slovenia and at the Mondsee and Attersee lakes in Upper Austria , for example. Early archaeologists like Ferdinand Keller thought they formed artificial islands, much like the Irish and Scottish crannogs , but today it is clear that the majority of settlements were located on the shores of lakes and were only inundated later on. Reconstructed stilt houses are shown in open-air museums in Unteruhldingen and Zürich (Pfahlbauland). In June 2011,

406-511: The bayou parts of the Southern United States and the hurricane prone Florida Keys and South Carolina Lowcountry . Houses where permafrost is present, in the Arctic , are built on stilts to keep permafrost under them from melting. Permafrost can be up to 70% water. While frozen, it provides a stable foundation. However, if heat radiating from the bottom of a home melts the permafrost,

435-677: The prehistoric pile dwellings in six Alpine states were designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites . A single Scandinavian pile dwelling, the Alvastra stilt houses , has been excavated in Sweden. Herodotus has described in his Histories the dwellings of the "lake-dwellers" in Paeonia and how those were constructed. In the Alps, similar buildings, known as raccards , are still in use as granaries. In England, granaries are placed on staddle stones , similar to stilts, to prevent mice and rats getting to

464-763: The Caribbean, the Gulf Coast of the United States, northern parts of South America, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and the Maldives. Stilted granaries are also a common feature in West Africa, e.g., in the Malinke language regions of Mali and Guinea . Stilt houses were also built by Amerindians in pre-Columbian times . Palafitos are especially widespread along the banks of the tropical river valleys of South America, notably

493-751: The Kerala Backwaters have been a traditional method of house construction for many years, following the disastrous 2018 floods in Kerala , many more stilt houses have been constructed recently and utilize concrete as well as timber for their pillars. In the Neolithic , the Copper Age and the Bronze Age , stilt-house settlements were common in the Alpine and Pianura Padana ( Terramare ) regions. Remains have been found at

522-606: The construction of chang ghar is making a resurgence and increasing in popularity, as a result of climate change increasing regular flooding in Assam, and the stilts of the chang ghar is adapted to flooding in the first place. The height of the stilts of the chang ghar is determined by the height of the water during the last major flood. Stilt houses are also popular in Kerala in the Kerala backwaters , another regions with high rainfall and regular flooding from monsoons. Although stilt houses in

551-491: The construction of the railway line in 1864. The former fishing and farming village was transformed. Around the turn of the 20th century, a Villa quarter arose in Feldafing. In 1890 there were approximately 70 houses in Feldafing, and in 1933 there were more than 170. Between 1890 and 1933 the population more than doubled, totaling 1,185 people in 1933. Another population boom took place after World War II through an influx of refugees and displaced persons. After World War I ,

580-471: The highlands or even directly on shallow water. Building structures on pilings is believed to be derived from the design of raised rice granaries and storehouses, which are highly important status symbols among the ancestrally rice-cultivating Austronesians. The rice granary shrine was also the archetypal religious building among Austronesian cultures and was used to store carvings of ancestor spirits and local deities. While rice cultivation wasn't among

609-765: The highway B2 Feldafing can be reached either over Pöcking , Traubing or Wieling. In addition, the St2063-road connects Tutzing, Feldafing and Possenhofen and due to its location along the shore of Lake Starnberg is known by locals as the "Lake street". It is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site . Roseninsel Rose Island ( German : Roseninsel ) in Lake Starnberg

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638-608: The home goes out of level and starts sinking into the ground. Other means of keeping the permafrost from melting are available, but raising the home off the ground on stilts is one of the most effective ways. Raised rectangular houses are one of the cultural hallmarks of the Austronesian peoples and are found throughout the regions in Island Southeast Asia , Island Melanesia , Micronesia , and Polynesia settled by Austronesians. The structures are raised on piles, usually with

667-713: The original building plans. Indirect evidence of traditional Austronesian architecture, however, can be gleaned from their contemporary representations in art, like in friezes on the walls of later Hindu-Buddhist stone temples (like in reliefs in Borobudur and Prambanan ). But these are limited to the recent centuries. They can also be reconstructed linguistically from shared terms for architectural elements, like ridge-poles, thatch, rafters, house posts, hearth, notched log ladders, storage racks, public buildings, and so on. Linguistic evidence also makes it clear that stilt houses were already present among Austronesian groups since at least

696-674: The people of southern Japan and Austronesians or pre-Austronesians that occurred prior to the spread of Han Chinese cultural influence to the islands. Rice cultivation is also believed to have been introduced to Japan from a para-Austronesian group from coastal eastern China. Waterson (2009) has also argued that the architectural tradition of stilt houses in eastern Asia and the Pacific is originally Austronesian, and that similar building traditions in Japan and mainland Asia (notably among Kra-Dai and Austroasiatic -speaking groups) correspond to contacts with

725-514: The space underneath also utilized for storage or domestic animals . The raised design had multiple advantages, they mitigate damage during flooding and (in very tall examples) can act as defensive structures during conflicts. The house posts are also distinctively capped with larger-diameter discs at the top, to prevent vermin and pests from entering the structures by climbing them. Austronesian houses and other structures are usually built in wetlands and alongside bodies of water, but can also be built in

754-515: The technologies carried into Remote Oceania , raised storehouses still survived. The pātaka of the Māori people is such an example. The largest pātaka are elaborately adorned with carvings and are often the tallest buildings in the Māori pā . They were used to store implements, weapons, ships, and other valuables; while smaller pātaka were used to store provisions. A special type of pātaka supported by

783-509: The use of Feldafing is from 1116. At that time, Feldafing was ruled by Ruodolfus de Veldovingen, a member of the Berthold von Andechs family. Since the middle of the 14th century, Feldafing and the Rose Island have belonged to the House of Wittelsbach . Feldafing was, at that time, the largest fishing village on Lake Starnberg . At the beginning of the 15th century (1401), Feldafing's Catholic Church

812-729: Was Martin Adolf Bormann , the son of Martin Bormann , Adolf Hitler 's private secretary and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery ), and of a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp . After the end of World War II , Feldafing became part of the American zone of occupation. The military administration converted the former Reichsschule and the subcamp into the Feldafing displaced persons camp , part of

841-534: Was constructed. This church was located most probably on the same site where the Catholic St. Peter and Paul Church stands today. The 17th century brought a series of changes for Feldafing, mostly including territorial disputes between various patrician families. In 1850, King Maximilian II , who had known the area of Feldafing since his childhood, acquired the Roseninsel, where he built a Villa in Pompeii-style and

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