Brieglersberg Cave

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Brieglersberg Cave

Portal of the Brieglersberg cave

Portal of the Brieglersberg cave

Location: Dead Mountains near Bad Mitterndorf , Styria
Height : 1960  m above sea level A.
Geographic
location:
47 ° 37 '12 "  N , 14 ° 2' 59"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '12 "  N , 14 ° 2' 59"  E
Brieglersberg Cave (Styria)
Brieglersberg Cave
Cadastral number: 1625/24
Geology: Dachstein Limestone

The Brieglersberg cave ( cadastral number 1625/24) is a cave in the Totes Gebirge in Bad Mitterndorfer municipality in Styria. It is located south of the Kleiner Brieglersberg at 1960  m above sea level. A. . It is also known as the “Bear Cave in the Little Brieglersberg” or “Hermann Bock Cave” after its discoverer, Hermann Bock . The cave's over 20 meters wide and 8 meters high portal opens just west of the abyss with which the central plateau of the Prielgruppe breaks off to the east. Remains of cave bears have been found in the cave .

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  • Gernot Rabeder, Michael Hofreiter, Eva Maria Wild: The bears of the Brieglersberg cave . In: The cave . Journal of Karst and Speleology . tape 56 . Association of Austrian Speleologists, Vienna 2005, p. 36–43 ( [1] [PDF; accessed November 3, 2019]).

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