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Kuhställe

Two caves below the Hamburger Wappen in the Teufelsmauer near Timmenrode are called Kuhställe.

Blankenburg (Harz)

Two caves below the Hamburger Wappen in the Teufelsmauer near Timmenrode are called Kuhställe.

Characteristics

Caves are protected biotopes (§30 BNatSchG). Caves used by bats as winter quarters must not be entered from 1 October to 31 March (§39(6) BNatSchG), except show caves and their developed parts.

Location

The Kuhställe are two caves below the Hamburger Wappen in the Teufelsmauer near Timmenrode in the Harz district, Saxony-Anhalt. They lie at the western end of a small rocky valley basin, whose north side is occupied by the rocks of the Hamburger Wappen. The Teufelsloch, located on the east side of the basin, is also sometimes called Kuhstall.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Kuhställe

    51.777083, 11.001123
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Description

Other details

It is presumed that the caves were created in the course of the extraction of scouring sand. In the last decades of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, larger deposits of soil occurred in the caves, so that these can only be recognized in outline.

On the cave in Saxon Switzerland: Kuhstall (Sächsische Schweiz)

History

The naming as Kuhställe gives reason to presume that livestock was sheltered in the caves or hidden there in uncertain times.

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