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Königshöhle

The cave that lent a Copper Age culture its name, with a hole in the roof the Devil is blamed for

Königshöhle

A Baden amateur dug this cave out almost completely in January 1892 and misread what he found; professionals catalogued the material in the 1920s, and the central-Danube Copper Age has been the Baden culture ever since, named for the town below. His brother collected the better explanation. The Devil wore the cave’s boulder as a hat to show off his strength, God lifted it onto one finger and set it down, and the four-metre hole he left is still open to the sky.

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