Buchenhüll mammoth cave
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| Location: | Buchenhüll, Altmuehltal Nature Park , Germany | |
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Geographic location: |
48 ° 54 '45.4 " N , 11 ° 16' 6.5" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | K 6 | |
| Type: | Half cave / sinkhole | |
| Discovery: | 1903 | |
| Overall length: | 25 meters | |
| Particularities: | locked | |
The Buchenhüll mammoth cave is a natural karst cave near Buchenhüll , a district of the city of Eichstätt in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .
location
The cave is located about 2 kilometers east of Buchenhüll.
description
The cave is about 25 meters long, up to 5 meters wide and 14 meters high. It has two openings. An entrance is on the east side of a dolomite dome . The second entrance is a collapse doline . The cave is closed to the public due to scientific excavations.
The cave is shown in the cave register Fränkische Alb (HFA) under K 6 and by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment as geotope 176H003. See also the list of geotopes in the Eichstätt district .
history
The cave was discovered by a forester in 1903 and examined by Karl Gareis and Max Schlosser in 1911/1912 . Among other things, the well-preserved skeleton of a mammoth and the remains of another specimen were found, as well as the bones of four woolly rhinos , three steppe bisons , two cave hyenas and ten reindeer . The animals probably lived during the Weichsel or Würm glaciation about 50,000 years ago and fell into the water of a sinkhole .
Some of the finds are in the Prehistory and Early History Museum in Eichstätt in the Altmühltal Nature Park on the Willibaldsburg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geotope: Mammoth Cave east of Buchenhüll (accessed on September 13, 2013; PDF; 167 kB)
