Badlhöhle
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| Location: | Badlgraben, Austria | |
| Height : | 495 m above sea level A. | |
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Geographic location: |
47 ° 13 '38 " N , 15 ° 20' 55" E | |
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| Geology: | Schöcklkalk | |
| Discovery: | 1827 | |
| Overall length: | approx. 500 m | |
| Particularities: | archaeological Find spot, closed to the public |
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The Badlhöhle is located on the north side of the Tanneben at 495 m above sea level. A. near Peggau in Styria and can be reached through the Badlgraben from Badl an der Mur .
It has a length of around 500 meters and is divided into floors one above the other. A second entrance is 52 meters above the main entrance.
The Badlhöhle is a protected cave according to the Natural Cave Act. The cave was cordoned off as there were repeated excavations and destruction, as well as to protect the bats.
Allegedly, the cave, which was already known to the locals, was rediscovered in 1827. In the summer of 1837 the owner of the cave Ferdinand Freiherr von Thinnfeld and his brother-in-law Imperial Councilor Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger set themselves the task of digging in the cave for "scientific purposes". They hid over 400 bones that were examined by the botanist Franz Unger . He noticed the peculiar shape of some bones, including two polished bone needles, but did not recognize them as bone artifacts because he lacked the relevant knowledge. In 1870, Carl Ferdinand Peters recognized them as bones that had been processed by humans and described the two polished bone tips in the Grazer Tagespost as sewing needles. The prehistoric Gundaker Graf Wurmbrand-Stuppach examined the cave through this article . His descriptions are the only useful documents from that time, as the layers were severely damaged by the phosphate mining in 1918.
Nearby is the much more important Repolust Cave , where the oldest known traces of settlement in Austria were found.
Stalagmite "Hochhuberin"
Location of the Lautscher tip
Lautscher top , find from 1837
literature
- Heinrich Kusch : On the cultural-historical significance of the cave sites along the central Mur Valley (Styria). In: Grazer Classical Studies. 1996, ISBN 3-631-49479-3 .
- Walter Schmid: The dagger stick from the Badlhöhle. In: Blätter für Heimatkunde. Published by the Historical Association for Styria, 1933.
- Maria Mottl: Report on the more important results of the cave excavations of the Joanneum in the years 1951–1952. In: Communications from the cave commission at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. 1953.
- Heinrich Kusch, Ingrid Kusch: Caves of Styria. Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft 1998, ISBN 3-85489-007-9 .