Feldhof cave
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| Location: | Balve , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
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Geographic location: |
51 ° 22 '40.8 " N , 7 ° 51' 13.6" E | |
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| Type: | Culture cave | |
| Overall length: | 189 meters total aisle length | |
| Particularities: | The cave is freely accessible | |
The Feldhofhöhle is a cultural cave in the Hönnetal between the Binolen district of Balver and the Hemeraner Burg Klusenstein . It is located in the mass limestone of the upper Middle Devon .
The cave lies above the course of the Hönne river and the Binolener tunnel of the Hönnetalbahn and, together with the neighboring tunnel cave and the Friedrichshöhle, belongs to a common cave system shaped by two streams. The cave entrance is four meters high and eight meters wide. The main hall, which has an interior height of eight and a width of 15 meters, branches out after a length of about 100 meters into several dead branches. One of these tributaries ends about 200 meters before a collapse . Most of the cave runs at the bottom . There is a second cave entrance offset above the large main entrance.
The Feldhofhöhle has only a few stalactites . Inside the cave there is a constant temperature of eight to ten degrees Celsius . Early traces of the Neanderthal man are known from around 100,000 to 40,000 years ago. Bones of woolly rhinos, reindeer, horses, hyenas and wolves have also been found. The cave is also the site of ceramics from the earlier Iron Age . Professor Julius Andree discovered five cultural layers during excavations in 1925/1926.
During the Second World War , the cave served as an ammunition store.
The cave is owned by the Rheinisch-Westfälische Kalkwerke , Hönnetal.
See also: List of caves in the Sauerland
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Caveman: Description of the Feldhofhöhle (archive version of the article on archive.org) ( Memento from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Accessed: January 23, 2010
- ↑ Excursion: Feldhofhöhle Accessed : January 21, 2010
- ↑ Caveman: Das Hönnetal ( Memento from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Accessed: January 23, 2010
- ↑ Westfalenpost: Feldhofhöhle was a good address in the Stone Age . Accessed : January 21, 2010
- ^ Munster contributions to prehistoric and early historical archeology , ISSN 1861-3942 , edited by Albrecht Jockenhövel “The ceramics of the older Iron Age in the low mountain range between the Rhine and Werra”, Frank Verse (sites in the Märkisches Kreis, cat.-no. 469-481 / 242-243). Accessed: January 21, 2010