Lakes of Amsoldingen and Uebeschi and the adjacent mires near Amsoldingen are witnesses of the Ice Age. The mire landscape around the two lakes includes all of the blanket mire types found in Switzerland.

When the glaciers retreated around 10,000 years ago after the last Ice Age, the moraines and wet basins remained in the Alpine Foreland. In many locations, this special relief resulted in the formation of small lakes and mire landscapes. Lakes of Amsoldingen and Uebeschi are a good example of this phenomenon.

The two charming lakes are connected but do not have any surface runoff. The natural lakeshores, which give way to blanket mires, are particularly valuable. The mire landscape around the two lakes includes all of the blanket mire types found in Switzerland and provides habitats for numerous bird species.

The lakes are in private ownership and are not, therefore, accessible to the public. However, Amsoldingen is worth a visit, not just for its natural beauty: its castle and beautiful church, which is over 1,000 years old, are also worth seeing.

Nature reserves and landscape protection areas
A large part of this area is listed, inter alia, in the following federal inventories:

• Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments of National Importance (BLN object no 1315 “Amsoldinger- und Uebeschisee”)
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• Inventory of Mire Landscapes (object no 336 “Amsoldingen”)
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• Interactive map browser displaying the object included in the BLN (available in German and French)
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Other links

• All of the federal Swiss inventories can be displayed on an interactive map using this map browser (available in German and French)
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• Detailed information on the effects of outdoor sport and leisure activities on nature (available in German and French)
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• Information on the church (in German)
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• Information on Amsoldingen castle (in German and French)
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