In the second half of the 19th century, a tunnel was struck in the rock layers of the Buntsandsteinzeit. This cavity, Eiskeller genant, m was formerly used as a cooling cellar for the Hillesheimer breweries, because the evaporative cooling is a constantly low temperature

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This ice cellar was used by the Hillesheim breweries as a cold storage room from the second half of the 19th century.

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In the second half of the 19th century, a cavity (ice cellar) was hewn into the Bunter sandstone strata exposed here in the Schützental valley. The ice cellar was formerly used as a cooling cellar and also as a shelter. Source: eifel.de/go/sehenswertes-detail/eiskeller_hillesheim.html

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