Hohle Fels
The Hohle Fels is a cave in the Swabian Jura of Germany that has yielded a number of important archaeological finds dating from the Upper Paleolithic. Artifacts found in the cave represent some of the earliest examples of prehistoric art and musical instruments ever discovered.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Sirgenstein Cave and Sirgenstein Castle.
Sirgenstein Cave
Cave
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The small Sirgenstein Cave, German: Sirgensteinhöhle is situated 565 m above sea level inside the 20 m high Sirgenstein, a limestone rock. The cave sits 35 m above the Ach River valley bottom in the central Swabian Jura, southern Germany.
Sirgenstein Castle
Castle
Sirgenstein Castle is a ruined castle on rock, over twenty metres high, with a cave inhabited in the Stone Age, the Sirgenstein, between the town of Blaubeuren and hamlet of Schelklingen in Alb-Donau-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schelklingen and Blaubeuren.
Schelklingen
Village
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Schelklingen is a town in the district of Alb-Donau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is situated 10 km north of Ehingen, and 20 km west of Ulm. Schelklingen and 82% of its territory form part of the Swabian Jura Biosphere Reserve.
Blaubeuren
Town
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Blaubeuren is a town in the district of Alb-Donau near Ulm in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of December 2007 it had 11,963 inhabitants. Blaubeuren is situated 4 km northeast of Hohle Fels.
Altheim
Village
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Altheim is a municipality in the district of Alb-Donau in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Altheim is situated 6 km south of Hohle Fels.
Hohle Fels
- Type: Cliff with an elevation of 616 metres
- Description: cave in Germany
- Categories: solutional cave, archaeological site, natural monument in Germany, show cave, and landform
- Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Hohle Fels” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوهل فيلس”
- Cebuano: “Hohler Fels”
- Chinese: “空石岩洞”
- Czech: “Hohle Fels”
- Dutch: “Hohle Fels”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هوهل فيلس”
- Esperanto: “Hohle Fels”
- French: “Hohle Fels”
- German: “Hohle Fels”
- German: “Hohlefels”
- German: “Hohler Fels”
- Greek: “Χόλε Φελς”
- Hebrew: “הולר פלס”
- Japanese: “ホーレ・フェルス”
- Japanese: “ホーレ・フェルス洞窟”
- Kotava: “Hohle Fels (arula)”
- Kotava: “Hohle Fels”
- Macedonian: “Холе Фелс”
- Polish: “Hohle Fels”
- Russian: “Холе-Фельс”
- Spanish: “Hohle Fels”
- Swedish: “Hohle Fels”
- Turkish: “Hohle Fels”
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