The working group Wetlands in History: Histories from the quaking zone, 1630-1997 - a collaboration between the Chair of Early Modern History, the Chair of Global Environmental History, the IEK, WZU and Bukowina Institute - is receiving support from SEED funding from the University of Augsburg, enabling it to continue and expand its work.

The working group led by Professors Simone Müller, Ulrich Niggemann, Jana Osterkamp, Lothar Schilling and Jens Soentgen is studying wetlands in Central and Western Europe from a long-term historical perspective from 1630 to 1997.

Starting from the ambivalent basic state of the wetlands - as neither water nor land - it brings new archives and actors to the fore who were inspired by precisely this, including Alessandro Volta, Adolf Pleischl and Käthe Seidel.