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Langenstein Cave Dwellings

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Langenstein Cave Dwellings

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Langenstein Cave Dwellings

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Location: Halberstadt, Landkreis Harz, Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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1. View from Hoppelberg Summit – Gläserner Mönch loop from Langenstein

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2. View from the summit of Hoppelberg – Langenstein Cave Dwellings loop from Langenstein

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3. Regensteinmühle (HWN 82) – Langensteiner Höhlenwohnungen loop from Oesig

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Kathrin unterwegs

November 4, 2020

If you leave Halberstadt in the direction of Harz, you come across the picturesque village of Langenstein at the gates of the city. Here is a unique testimony to earlier living culture in Germany: the cave dwellings of Langenstein. Numerous dwellings were once carved into the soft sandstone by young farm workers' families. Some dwellings, it is believed, even date from the Germanic settlement period.

Massive doors in the rock face, windows with white curtains and tiny gardens with kitchen herbs are still reminiscent of the life of their former residents. Sometimes it even seems as if a hobbit from a Tolkien novel is about to stumble in the door.

The last troglodyte, as the cave dwellers were called, did not leave its unusual home until 1916. You can still visit the caves on Höhlenstrasse on Schäferberg and on Altenburg.

halberstadt.de/de/hoehlenwohnungen-langenstein/die-hoehlenwohnungen-von-langenstein.html

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Alwin

January 15, 2020

Welcome to Hobbiton🧝‍♂️🧝‍♀️ you can also let yourself be guided.

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Peter

June 22, 2020

All apartments are worth a visit, it is very impressive what the people have done!

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Location: Halberstadt, Landkreis Harz, Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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Langenstein Cave Dwellings

1. View from Hoppelberg Summit – Gläserner Mönch loop from Langenstein

2. View from the summit of Hoppelberg – Langenstein Cave Dwellings loop from Langenstein

3. Regensteinmühle (HWN 82) – Langensteiner Höhlenwohnungen loop from Oesig

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