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| Location: | 16km south of Bad Frankenhausen at the F86 in Kindelbrück, turn north to Bilzingsleben, 3km. (36,Ma41) |
| Open: | after appointment |
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| Classification: | Travertine deposit forming a ridge |
| Dimension: | H=40m, L=300m, W=100m. |
| Guided tours: | after appointment |
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Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität Jena, Löbdergraben 24a, 07745 Jena, Tel: +49-3641-9300. Contact for visits and guided tours: Enrico Brühl E-mail: |
| Last update: | $Date: 2008/07/01 20:19:10 $ |
At the city limits of Bilzingsleben towards Frömmstedt is left of the road a ridge which is called Steinrinne. In the middle pleistocene, about 400.000 to 350.000 years before present existed a karst spring at this place, which built a huge travertine deposit.
The brook Wipper changed its bed since then and flows tady severl hundred meters away and 30 or 40 m deeper. So the former valley with its travertine became a ridge. This process is called inversion by the geologists.
This place became world famous because of of the discovery of human remains, flint tools, plants and animal remains. In 1974 the remains of a Homo erectus skull where found.
In the village Bilzingsleben, in a farmhouse, a small exhibition about geology, paleontology, prehistory and anthropology of this place exists. Responsible is the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte at the Universität Jena. But this little exhibition has no regular open hours, it can only be visited after appointment.
The best chance for a visit of exhibition and site is the day of the open monument, which is every year on the second sunday of September.
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