Ralf Nielbock

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Ralf Nielbock (* 1954 ) is a German geologist and paleontologist who has been researching and developing the Einhornhöhle in Scharzfeld since 1984 .

Career

Ralf Nielbock comes from Frankfurt (Oder) and has lived in the Harz region since 1959 , now in Osterode am Harz . He studied paleontology and geology at the TU Clausthal . 1982 received a diploma in geology with a thesis on the stratigraphy of the Zechsteindolomite on the southern edge of the Harz. In 1987 Nielbock did his doctorate on Holocene and Young Pleistocene vertebrate fauna in the unicorn cave. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant in the prehistory department of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover in the archaeological-paleontological excavations in the Einhornhöhle. From 1989 to 1990 Nielbock was a research assistant in the archaeological preservation of monuments in the district of Osterode am Harz . During this activity he designed a traveling exhibition entitled "Unicornu fossile" on the unicorn cave. Ralf Nielbock then took on the role of museum representative for the Bad Grund community . There he redesigned the Bad Grund Clock Museum and the Mining Museum. From 1994 to 2000 Nielbock was deputy managing director of the museum association "The Upper Harz Mining and Local History Museums" and scientific director of the "Mining Museum Schachtanlage Knesebeck" of the ore mine Grund .

From 2001 Ralf Nielbock designed the "Project People and Animals in the Einhörnhöhle". In 2002 he was a co-founder of the association “Gesellschaft Unicornu fossile”, which has been operating the cave since then and whose goal is geotouristic development and exploration of the unicorn cave. Since the resumption of management operations in the cave in 2003, Nielbock has been its operations manager and scientific project manager.

Publications (selection)

  • with Hans-Georg Kohnke: Museums and Heimatstuben in the district of Osterode am Harz , 1989.
  • The giant deer (Megaloceros giganteus) from Bühberg near Barbis - Jacob-Friesen's excavations at Bühberg and at Scharzfels Castle near Barbis in 1950. Heimatbl. fd southwest Harzrand, Osterode 1990, pp. 7-16.
  • with M. Koch: The clock museum Bad Grund - A walk through time. Bad Grund 1997.
  • The search for the diluvial person - or: The history of exploration of the unicorn cave. In: The customer N. F. 53; 2002 ( online )
  • with Stephan Veil: The unicorn cave - animal cemetery of the Ice Age and traces from the time of the Neanderthals In: Mamoun Fansa , Frank Both, Henning Haßmann (editor): Archeology | Land | Lower Saxony. 400,000 years of history. State Museum for Nature and Man, Oldenburg 2004. Pages 171–172.
  • with Heinz-Gerd Röhling : Geotop-Ensemble Zechsteinkarstlandschaft Südharz: Einhornhöhle and Rhumequelle - geotopes of national importance in: SDGG issue 42, Hanover, 2006 ISBN 978-3-932537-38-7
  • with Kaufmann and Romanov: Geophysical investigations at the Einhornhöhle, Südharz in: Mitt.Verb.dt. Cave u. Karst explorer 56 (3). Munich 2010 ISSN 0505-2211
  • The unicorn cave. The world of unicorns, cave bears and Neanderthals. Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-89937-123-9
  • with Felix Hillgruber, Jens Lehmann and Thomas Terberger : The unicorn cave in the light of old and new research. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony . No. 4, 2014, pp. 153–155.

literature

  • Ralf Nielbock: Short biography in: The unicorn cave. The world of unicorns, cave bears and Neanderthals. Munich 2010.

Web links

Commons : Ralf Nielbock  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cover sheet of the dissertation Holocene and Young Pleistocene Vertebrate Faunas in the Unicorn Cave / Harz
  2. ↑ Holocene and Young Pleistocene vertebrate fauna in the unicorn cave / Harz . Dissertation (pdf, 35 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Nielbock, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954