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| Location: | Walls (Rennertshofen) , Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district , Bavaria , Germany | |
| Height : | 425 m above sea level NN | |
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48 ° 46 '29.5 " N , 11 ° 3' 12" E | |
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| Geology: | Banked dolomite ( Upper Jura ) | |
| Type: | Horizontal cave system | |
| Lighting: | no | |
| Overall length: | 121 m | |
| Website: | Walled caves | |
The Mauerner Höhlen are natural karst caves near Mauern , a district of the Upper Bavarian market town of Rennertshofen in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen in Bavaria .
description
They are also called Weinberghöhlen von Mauern and are a karst cave system located at the entrance to the Wellheim Urdonautal near Mauern in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen .
People already used the Mauerner caves in the late Middle Paleolithic . In excavations next to stone tools and was glacial animal bones, a 27,000-year-old Venus figurines from limestone found that Venus by walls .
The caves are designated by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment as an important geotope (185H003) and natural monument . In the Franconian Alb cave register , the caves are listed as L 9a - L 9e.
Geographical location
The system, which consists of five individual caves, is located on the left slope at the entrance to the Wellheim Urdonautal northwest of the village of Mauern. The seven cave entrances are around 20 m above the valley floor at around 425 m above sea level. NHN . The area around the caves is designated as a nature reserve World Database on Protected Areas - Mauerner Höhlen (English).
topography
The total length of the cave system is 121 m, the total area approx. 600 m². The caves are accessible via an unpaved footpath. The entrances have been barred since 1977 because of the risk of collapse and to protect them from robbery graves .
literature
- Karl-Heinz Rieder, Andreas Tillmann, Jan Weinig, Stadt Ingolstadt (eds.): Stone Age Cultures on the Danube and Altmühl , booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt 1989, pp. 50–59.
- Bohuslav Klima: The Pavlovien in the vineyard caves by walls . In: Quaternary , 19, 1968, p 263-273.
- Lothar Zotz (Ed.): The Palaeolithic in the vineyard caves near walls. Röhrscheid-Verlag, Bonn 1955.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Geotope register, vineyard caves NW of walls . (PDF) accessed on September 19, 2017
- ^ Geotope register Bavaria . Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Augsburg 2015.
- ^ Karl-Heinz Rieder, Andreas Tillmann, Jan Weinig, City of Ingolstadt (eds.): Stone Age cultures on the Danube and Altmühl . Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt 1989, Ingolstadt 1989, p. 50-59 .