Lindenthaler Hyänenhöhle
The Lindenthaler Hyänenhöhle was a cave on what is now the city area of Gera, inhabited during the Eemian interglacial and the Weichselian glacial period, discovered in 1874 and quarried away a short time later.
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Lindenthaler Hyänenhöhle
The Lindenthaler Hyänenhöhle was a cave on what is now the city area of Gera, inhabited during the Eemian interglacial and the Weichselian glacial period, discovered in 1874 and quarried away a short time later.
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The Lindenthaler Hyänenhöhle was a cave on what is now the city area of Gera, inhabited during the Eemian interglacial and the Weichselian glacial period, discovered in 1874 and quarried away a short time later.
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A plaque on Pfortener Straße commemorates this cave. In the Gera City Museum the cave has been reconstructed and can thus be walked through as part of the exhibition.
History
The Lindenthaler Hyänenhöhle was a cave on what is now the city area of Gera, inhabited during the Eemian interglacial and the Weichselian glacial period. It was discovered in 1874 during quarrying work and was quarried away a short time later. The excavations following the discovery were led by Karl Theodor Liebe. The cave received its name from the municipality of Lindenthal (on whose territory it lay) and from the fact that all the animal bones had been gnawed by cave hyenas.
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In the cave and on the forecourt, remains of wild horses, cave hyenas, woolly rhinoceroses, but also of cave bears, cave lions, mammoth, aurochs and reindeer were found.
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Source: Wikidata – cave items (Germany) (www.wikidata.org), modified. CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Wikidata (CC0 1.0) · 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 (Lindenthaler Hyänenhöhle) · 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/Lindenthaler_Hy%C3%A4nenh%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026