Top 5 Caves ノイ・アイヒェンベルクでの

Hermitage with easy access and rest area with 2 former fish ponds

Great rock formation with a historical background. Can only be recommended.

The cave is often involved in fairy tales and legends. In the front part is the cave lake, whose water is said to heal, rejuvenate and beautify. Ceremonies and offerings of flowers are said to have been common here up until the 19th century. These traditions are said to date back to pre-Christian times and were sometimes carried out several times a year. Ribbons/shells/jewellery/stones and other items are still placed in front of the cave today. Unfortunately, the cave is now permanently closed due to the danger of falling rocks.

The cave is often involved in fairy tales and legends. In the front part is the cave lake, whose water is said to heal, rejuvenate and beautify. Ceremonies and offerings of flowers are said to have been common here up until the 19th century. These traditions are said to date back to pre-Christian times and were sometimes carried out several times a year. Ribbons/shells/jewellery/stones and other items are still placed in front of the cave today. Unfortunately, the cave is now permanently closed due to the danger of falling rocks.

An interesting rock. Worth seeing.

On the north-west face of the rock is a small man-made chamber, to which a ladder leads. On the small forecourt on this side, directly on the rock, there was a building that belonged to the hermitage. Several crosses and niches are visible on the rock. According to tradition, the hermit Hurkut, who comes from the Reinhausen monastery, lived in the hermitage. Finds from the 13th and 14th centuries

Impressive sandstone rock formation in the middle of the forest with nice views and very nice to rest. The last 500 m are a bit tedious to walk, which are still not 100% cleared of storm damage - here and there scrambling over a tree is part of it.

Here are a few more precise comments on Abri IX: Abri IX seems to play a prominent role in the archaeological research of the rock protection roofs in southern Lower Saxony. The excavations here were able to prove traces of use as far back as the Middle Paleolithic and traces of use in the younger Paleolithic. Also of interest is the discovery of two children's graves in 1989, in which the relatively well-preserved skeletons of a 1.5-year-old boy and a 2.5-3-year-old girl were uncovered. Investigations of samples of these skeletons from the year 2009 using the radiocarbon method, the time of death of the boy was about 460 BC. And that of the girl to approx. 800 BC. Set. Source: K. Grote, T. Terberger, Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, 41, 2011, 189-195.