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Unicorn Cave´
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Biotope and Geotope
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(Natural Reserve)
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Monument
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Natural Monument
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Unicorn Cave - another world underneath the Harz-mountains
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cave bear |
”Unicorn
Cave" - even
the name of this cave sounds mysterious. For hundreds of years, digging
for the bones of the unicorn had been the foremost interest. The cave has
been famous and well known even far beyond the Harz-mountains. The bones,
ground down to powder in a mortar, were sold as "Unicornu
fossile" (meaning "excavated unicorn"), a
much esteemed medicine over the whole of Europe.
Still today, visitors,
especially the young, are wondering about the unicorn in the cave. |
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- "Unicorn Cave"
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home of
Neanderthal man and of cave-bears. Today we know for certain that the
bones found in the cave are the fossilised remnants of thousands of
cave-bears (pic.left side) and other died-out animals, which have
been living in the area during the last ice-age.
Only a few years ago
scientific excavations revealed, that the Neanderthal man occupied at
least one of the cave entrances for considerable time some 100.000 years
ago.
Come in and join us to
follow the the footprints of famous Europaean explorers, among them
Leibniz, Forster, Goethe,
Buckland, Cuvier and Virchow, through the winding corridors and the huge
halls of the cave.
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neanderthal man
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| "Unicorn
Cave" - the
largest cave open to the public in the western Harz-mountains, can be
reached via the highways B27/B243 from the village of Scharzfeld following
the signs to the parking lot in the forest (busses welcome) - or on foot
from the railway station "Scharzfeld" in 20 minutes (marked
footpath).
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- The cave is open April
through Nov. from 10.00 to 17.00 hrs.
- Appointments for
specially guided tours are welcome year-round.
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- Proprietors:
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- Gesellschaft Unicornu
fossile e.V.
- Dr. Ralf Nielbock
- Im Strange 12
- D - 37520 Osterode am
Harz
- Tel.: 0049 (0)5522 /
315 93-85 FAX: -86
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Unicorn
Cave - another world underneath the Harz-mountains,
the world of the
unicorns, the cave-bears and the neanderthal men
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