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| Image: the hollow rock (Hohler Fels) seen from some distance. |
| Location: | From Ulm B28 Blaubeuren-Schelklingen. Turn left at the city limits of Schelklingen. 500m to parking. 5 min walk to the cave. (74,Kf58) |
| Open: | 1.5.-31.10. after appointment. Once a year cave celebration, once a year cave concert. On the day of the open monument (Tag des offenen Denkmals), second Sunday in September. During excavations on Thursday afternoon. |
| Fee: | Adults EUR 1, Children EUR -.50 |
| Classification: |
 Karst cave,
Malm (Jurassic limestones)
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| Light: | electric |
| Dimension: | L=120m, GH=23.4m, 534m a.s.l., AR=500m². |
| Guided tours: | V=3.800/a [2005]. |
| Bibliography: |
(o.J.):
Der Hohlefels bei Schelklingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis, Eine urgeschichtliche Fundstelle im Achtal, Kulturdenkmale in Baden-Württemberg, Kleine Führer, Blatt 46, Hrsg: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart (  )
Wagner, E. (1979): Eiszeitjäger im Blaubeurener Tal, Führer zu archäologischen Denkmälern in Baden-Württemberg, Bd. 6, Theiss, Stuttgart 1979. ( )
Bernhard Mangold, Andreas Pöhler (1966): Der Hohle Fels, Laichinger Höhlenfreund, 1. Jahrgang, 2. Halbjahr 1966, Heft 2 |
| Address: |
Museumsgesellschaft Schelklingen, Verein für Heimatgeschichte e.V., Merowingerstr. 8, 89601 Schelklingen Bürgermeisteramt Schelklingen, Marktstraße 15, 89601 Schelklingen, Tel. +49-7394-2480 |
| Last update: | $Date: 2007/12/03 20:03:33 $ |
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| Image: the archaeological excavation in the entrance area. |
| 1830 | first find of cave bears' bones by the potter Rixinger who was digging for clay in the cave. | |
| 1844 | The cave sediments were used as fertilizer. | |
| 1870-71 | Excavation by Prof. Oskar Fraas and J. Hartmann. | |
| 1872 | Excursion of the Anthropologischer Vereins (Anthropologic Society) to the cave. Mos famous participant was Professor R. Virchow. Cave closed by a door. | |
| 1905 | Development of stairs and paths and first of the cave festival, which are held until today. | |
| 1936 | Hohler Fels declater a Naturdenkmal (Natural Monument). | |
| 1944 | Confiscated by the Luftgaukommando V for purposes of the air force, cave floor partially leveled. | |
| 1955 | electric light installed and cave closed with massive iron gate. | |
| 1958-60 | Excavation by the local historian G. Matschak and Prof. Gustav Riek. | |
| 1966 | Survey and article in the  Laichinger Höhlenfreund. | |
| 1977-79 | Excavation by Prof. Joachim Hahn from the Institut für Urgeschichte in Tübingen in cooperation with the Landesdenkmalamt. | |
| 1987-96 | Yearly excavation of six weeks by Prof. Joachim Hahn. | |
| 1997- | Excavations by Prof. N. J. Conard and Prof. H.-P. Uerpmann from the Institut für Urgeschichte der Universität Tübingen. |
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| Image: the entrance area of the cave with a small exhibition. |
The Hohle Fels is one of the biggest caverns of the Swabian Jura. But it is more or less only this single big chamber, which is entered by a short passage which is high enough to walk upright. The cave has no speleothems, but a little moonmilk. Its main feature are the archaeological remains found here.
A big excavation took place from 1977 to 1979 by Prof. Joachim Hahn from the Institut für Urgeschichte in Tübingen in cooperation with the Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg. Famous finds were chiselled petrified wood, a harpoon amde of an antler and needles from the Magdalénien. From the Gravetien some javelin heads and ivory jewelry items.
The highlight during the excavation seasons in 1997-99 made by the Institut für Urgeschichte, Tübingen, was the finding of a painted rock. This find was well published, not even in scientific papers but also in the yellow press. Its was called the first proof of cave paintings north of the Alps.
This spectacular publications made the cave Hohler Fels well known.
But not alone the way it was published is a little strange, the finding itself
is not as unique as the headlines told:
already in 1988 Joachim Hahn discovered painted rocks
in the nearby
Geißenklösterle bei Blaubeuern beschrieben.
Copies of the finds of the Hohler Fels and other nearby caves of the
Blau valley
are on display in the
Urgeschichtlichen Museum
in Blaubeuren, in the Heimatmuseum Schelklingen and in the cave itself.
And some last remarks on the name Hohler Fels. In literature often the name Hohle Fels is used, which is actually wrong. The cave is locally called the hollow rock (der hohle Fels), because of its strange impression of being a huge hollow limestone rock. The German form for a proper noun is Hohler Fels (Hollow Rock).
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The cave is open at the Tag des offenen Denkmals.
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