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Nussbaumersee

small lake between Nussbaumen and Uerschhausen, both in the municipality of Hüttwilen in the Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ2309428
Source-derived summary

Nussbaumersee is a small lake between Nussbaumen and Uerschhausen, both in the municipality of Hüttwilen in the Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. It lies at an altitude of 434 metres above sea level, and its surface area is 25.2 ha (62 acres). The lake has one small island. Hüttwilersee and Hasensee are located in the same valley.

Nussbaumer See is also known as Nussbommersee, Werdsee or Wertsee, Uerschhauser See or unterer See (lower lake). Together with Hasensee, they formed the Helfenberger Seen or Ittinger Seen.

Editorial summary

“Nussbaumersee” enters the record as small lake between Nussbaumen and Uerschhausen, both in the municipality of Hüttwilen in the Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nussbaumersee, small and lake can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 84-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nussbaumersee, small and lake.
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Why this record matters

“Nussbaumersee” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nussbaumersee, small and lake provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2309428. Authority coordinates are 47.616, 8.817. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from Nussbaumersee” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.