Bear Cave (Winden am See)
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| Location: | Burgenland , Austria | |
| Height : | 190 m above sea level A. | |
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Geographic location: |
47 ° 58 '12 " N , 16 ° 45' 19" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | 2911/1 | |
| Type: | Natural cave | |
| Discovery: | 1929 | |
| Overall length: | 93 meters | |
The Bear Cave ( cadastral number 2911/1) at Winden am See in Burgenland , also Ludlloch called, the only cave in Burgenland with finds of Ice Age cave fauna .
The bear cave is located about three kilometers north of the village of Winden on the western slope of the Zeilerberg ( 302 m ). With an altitude of 190 m above sea level. A. It is about twenty meters above the street. It is a layered joint cavity . It was probably formed in the Pannonian as a surf cave of the Miocene Sea ( Paratethys ) in limestone.
The cave has two south-west facing entrances, each three meters wide and 1.6 meters high, showing traces of old brickwork. The interior of the cave consists of a room 45 meters long with short side passages. In 1978 the entrances were provided with lattice doors.
The largest bat species native to Central Europe , the great mouse- eared bat ( Myotis myotis ), can be found in the cave .
During excavations between 1929 and 1931 under the direction of the paleontologist Kurt Ehrenberg , bones of ice-age cave bears , brown bears , cave hyenas and wolves were found. The complete skeleton of a cave bear is on display in the Breitenbrunn Tower Museum.
The cave has been a listed building since 1929 (specially protected cave, i.e. entry ban). Not so in the Cepaea Cave 20 meters south. Another 170 meters south, right next to the road, are other small caves, the Gypsy Caves, aka Grafenlucke. In contrast to the bear cave, these are artificially enlarged half caves in the crevices of the brecciated rock.
literature
- Max H. Fink, Helga and Wilhelm Hartmann (editor): The caves of Lower Austria. Volume 1, Regional Association for Speleology, Vienna 1979, page 273.
- Erich Keck u. a .: Caves and Karst in Burgenland. Burgenland State Museum, Eisenstadt 1998
- Erich Keck u. a .: Caves and tunnels in Burgenland. Burgenland State Museum, Eisenstadt 2008