In the spring of 1833, Friedrich Sickler (1773-1836), the headmaster of the Hildburghausen Gymnasium, probably just wanted to supervise the construction work to erect the foundation walls of his garden …

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The monument offers an interesting insight into prehistory. It is located directly at the town hall.

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In 1833 tracks were found in a quarry near Hildburghausen, secured and first described by Friedrich Sickler in 1834. The engraver Carl Barth also made a great effort to secure and evaluate the traces. The merits of both were finally acknowledged by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1835, in which he named the found footprints chirotherium sicklerii and chirotherium barthii.

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