Geißenklösterle
The Geißenklösterle is an abri in the Achtal, a half-cave south of Weiler, a district of Blaubeuren in the Alb-Donau-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg.
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Geißenklösterle
The Geißenklösterle is an abri in the Achtal, a half-cave south of Weiler, a district of Blaubeuren in the Alb-Donau-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg.
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The Geißenklösterle is an abri in the Achtal, a half-cave south of Weiler, a district of Blaubeuren in the Alb-Donau-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg.
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Description
Morphology
The Geißenklösterle is an abri, a half-cave.
Other details
Significant archaeological finds of the Upper Paleolithic were made in the cave, including the oldest human depiction and one of the oldest surviving musical instruments. In 2017 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the World Heritage site Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura.
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Contains information from © OpenStreetMap contributors, www.openstreetmap.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/937612388 · data as of 2026 · Source: Wikidata – cave items (Germany) (www.wikidata.org), modified. CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Wikidata (CC0 1.0) · names · obtained 2026-11-13 · data as of 2026 · Source: German Wikipedia – article leads (cave descriptions) (de.wikipedia.org), modified. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Wikipedia contributors (de.wikipedia.org), CC BY-SA 4.0 · Text by Wikipedia contributors (Geißenklösterle) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ · description · obtained 2026-11-13 · https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gei%C3%9Fenkl%C3%B6sterle · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]