The glacier of the last, the Würm Ice Age (115,000 to 11,500 years before today) did not reach the municipality, but remained stuck south of Bad Saulgau.

More than 10,000 years ago, deciduous forest began to cover the land, bogs grew in depressions and wet valleys, where the streams and rivers flowed in loops.

The Danube was not so easy to control; she has cut open until the regulation with dikes, the left half of the valley with flood waters with new loops.

The "holy mountain of Upper Swabia", a landmark that can be seen from afar, opens the view to the nearby Federsee and its moor girdle and, with good visibility, over the entire Alpine arc.

For Lake Constance, with its mild climate and very own vegetation, it is just 50 km, where you cross the steeply hilly Jungmoränen landscape with old half-timbered towns and entrancing baroque monasteries and churches.