Drachenhöhle

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Drachenhöhle or Drachenhöhle Mixnitz (literally Dragon's Cave of Mixnitz) is a long cave with a wide and high entrance near Mixnitz, Styria, Austria, south-east of Bruck an der Mur located at an elevation of above sea level. Cave bear of the species (Ursus ingressus) and other bone fossils that people found during the Middle Ages were deemed to be the bones of dragons, a belief that culminated in the saga of the "Dragon slayer of Mixnitz". The cave is one of the largest caves in the Alps where bears occupied an area that stretched over a length of way over , by an average width of up to and a height of . Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: Palaeolithic

Source: en.wikipedia.org