The DFG project Bad Waldsee aims to investigate the effects of urban development on water bodies using the example of Bad Waldsee in the Middle Ages and early modern period between approx. 1200 and 1800. The focus lies on the long-term relationship between people and the environment.

The project team members are Prof. Dr. Sigrid Hirbodian from the Institute of Historical Geography and Ancillary Historical Sciences at the University of Tübingen, Prof. Dr. Peter Rückert from the Main State Archives in Stuttgart, Prof. Dr. Matthias Hinderer from the Institute of Geosciences in the Department of Applied Sediment Geology at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Prof. Dr. Antje Schwalb from the Institute for Geosystems and Bioindication at the Technical University of Braunschweig, and PD Dr. Elena Marinova-Wolff from the State Office for Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg. The project is being worked on by the research assistants Dr. Kim J. Krahn from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Kristin Haas from the Technical University of Darmstadt, and Claudia Lemmes from the University of Tübingen, as well as staff from the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg. In addition, there is close cooperation with specialist colleagues from the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the Geo Research Centre in Potsdam as well as with head of the Bad Waldsee municipal archive, Michael Tassilo Wild.