Middle Lupberg cave

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Barred entrance to the Lupberg cave (November 2015)
View into the entrance shaft (November 2015)

The Middle Lupberg Cave , also known as the "Lohberg Cave" or "Pumper Hole", is located on the Franconian Alb near Trondorf in the Upper Palatinate community of Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg in the Amberg-Sulzbach district in Bavaria . It bears the cadastral number A 169 of the Franconian Alb cave cadastre . The pumping hole is a shaft cave about ten meters deep, three to five meters in diameter, which widens like a bottle at the bottom and ends in an approximately 20 × 35.0 meter hall. The cave is not open to the public.

The cave was discovered in 1893 and the survey was carried out in 1956. The first finds, including a shard from the Hallstatt period , go back to F. Knarr (1893), A. Ehrensberger (1890) and Josef Richard Erl (1906). The cave is characterized by the good preservation of the finds scattered over the entire surface. In addition to human and animal bones, there were shards and bronzes. Robbery excavations in the 1960s and 1970s caused the cave to be made inaccessible. According to Armin Stroh, only finds from the urnfield period come from the horizontal hall . According to Michael Moser, however, there was a bowl from the late Latène period (1st century BC) on the upper part of the rubble mountain , which was thrown down through an upper shaft access together with body parts. From the private collection of H. Lindner there is also a perforated Urnfield Age skull amulet with 64 holes, with the bronze patina identifying the piece as a pendant. The amulet is not a trepanation , but a post-mortem work.

Today the cave is protected as ground monument number D-3-6435-0105: "Lupberghöhle" (A 169) with finds from the early and middle Bronze Age, the Urnfield Age and the Hallstatt Age as well as human skeletal remains . It is designated as a natural monument .

literature

  • Fritz Huber: The northern Franconian Jura - The caves of the karst area A Königstein . 1967, pp. 113-114.
  • Manfred Moser, Leonhard Übelacker: Prehistoric skull amulets and surgical bone waste from caves in the Franconian Jura . In: Schröter 1977, pp. 105-112.
  • Michael Maria Rind : Human sacrifice From the cult of cruelty University publishing house Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-930480-64-6 , p. 134.
  • Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , pp. 134-135.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 135

Web links

Commons : Mittlere Lupberghöhle (A 169)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '9.4 "  N , 11 ° 39" 35.7 "  E