Hollow Rock (Happurg)
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.jpg) Hollow rock (E 2) |
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| Location: | Happurg , Franconian Alb , Germany | |
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49 ° 29 '4.3 " N , 11 ° 29' 32.1" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | E 2 | |
| Geology: | dolomite | |
| Type: | Half-cave | |
Hohler Fels is a natural karst cave near the Middle Franconian community of Happurg in the district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria .
description
The cave is on the Franconian Alb . In addition to the cave, the neighboring rock face also bears this name. The cave, open to the south, is 546 m above sea level. NN altitude, below the former Celtic oppidum Houbirg ( 617 m ).
In the cave register Fränkische Alb (HFA) the cave rock is registered as E 2 and as geotope number 574R007.
The 16 meter long and six meter high cave on the southern slope of the summit was registered as a ground monument in the Bavarian list of monuments because of finds from the Stone Age and the Urnfield Age . In front of the cave there is a natural bridge with two openings (see picture info box). The rock in front of the cave is a popular climbing rock.
Archaeological find layers
Archaeological excavations were carried out by Konrad Hörmann, among others, in 1906 and 1912. In the horizons , which are up to 2.70 meters thick , there were several Middle Paleolithic layers that belong to the Micoquia , and in some cases probably also to the Moustérien . The remains of the following Ice Age animals were recovered from these Middle Paleolithic layers (layer G): cave bear , cave hyena , wild horse , giant deer , reindeer , woolly rhinoceros .
There are also finds from the late Paleolithic with back tips , burins and short scratches, which, according to Werner Schönweiß, could possibly be classified as a younger Magdalenian .
From the upper layers there are finds from the Mesolithic , Neolithic and Iron Age .
photos
View of the hollow rock from the southeast
Side chamber in the cave
literature
- John P. Zeitler: Happurg: The Hollow Rock - A destroyed Stone Age site . In: Alfried Wieczorek (Hrsg.): Excursions to archeology, history and culture in Germany, Volume 52: Nuremberg and Nürnberger Land - excursion destinations between Pegnitz and Franconian Alb . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2368-2 , pp. 150-153.
- Stephan Lang: Caves in Franconia . Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-418-00390-7 .
- Friedrich Herrmann: Caves of the Franconian and Hersbrucker Switzerland . 2nd improved edition. Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 1991, ISBN 3-418-00356-7 , pp. 151-152.
Web links
- Pictures and a short description of the cave on the private page of Franz Lindenmayr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geotope: Hollow Rock
- ↑ Entry of the cave on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Konrad Hörmann: The hollow rock near Happurg. Treatises of the Natural History Society in Nuremberg 20, 1913, pp. 21–63
- ↑ Werner Schönweiß: Franconian Epipalaeolithic - The Atzenhofer Group. Bonner Hefte 8, 1974, pp. 80-84
- ↑ Brigitte Kaulich: Hohler Fels, Petershöhle and Hunas. Three paleolithic cave sites in the heart of the Hersbrucker Alb. In: Layers of a Landscape (Ed .: Karl Heinlein). Nuremberg 1996, ISBN 3-9805656-2-9 , pp. 13-23.