Witches kitchen in Kaufertsberg
| Witches kitchen in Kaufertsberg
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| Location: | Möttingen , Donau-Ries district , Germany | |
| Height : | 427 m above sea level NN | |
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Geographic location: |
48 ° 48 '33.2 " N , 10 ° 36' 40.1" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | M 14 | |
| Geology: | dolomite | |
| Type: | Shaft cave | |
| Show cave since: | No | |
| Lighting: | No | |
| Overall length: | 20 m | |
The Hexenküche in Kaufertsberg is a karst cave near Lierheim, a district of Möttingen in the Donau-Ries district in Bavaria .
location
The cave is located about 200 meters east of Lierheim am Kaufertsberg.
description
The slope descends towards the south to the valley floor of the Eger and forms a slightly overhanging rock roof ( Abri ). A passage leads from there into the mountain to the open-topped cave ruin "Hexenküche". The cave is a natural monument, in the cave cadastre Fränkische Alb (HFA) with the cadastral number M 14 and by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment as geotope 779R007 and as ground monument D-7-7129-0200.
The cave revealed only a few Palaeolithic finds such as stone tools and animal bones from the end of the Ice Age. The head burial of a man with the associated lower jaw and the first two cervical vertebrae is important.
See also
literature
- Jörg Orschiedt : Results of a new investigation of the late Mesolithic head burials from southern Germany. In: Conard, NJ & Kind, C.-J. (Ed.): Current research on the Mesolithic - Current Mesolithic Research. Urgeschichtliche Materialhefte 12. Tübingen, 1998. pp. 147-160.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geotope: Kaufertsberg with Hexenküche (accessed on November 1, 2013; PDF; 185 kB)
- ↑ List of monuments (accessed on November 1, 2013; PDF; 142 kB)