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The Kakus Cave at Eiserfey / Eifel, Germany
(May 2006)
At the entrance of the Kakus- or Kartstone cave,
you can find information in German. Here is a short summary in English:
300.000 years ago the kartstone rock developed.
It is 20 meters thick and younger than the underground consisting of limestone.
The so-called travertin develops when limestone dissolves in water, "falls
out" and then settles somewhere else. Layer by layer, over a very long
period of time, the travertin builds up. Tension in the material leads to gaps
and tears, and erosion then enlarges these gaps into caves.
Stoneage findings prove that man found shelter in
these caves already in the very early days of mankind. The WebSite Eifelimpressionen
gives more impressions and detailed information (in German). Here again, a
short summary in English:
"During excavations simple tools, weapons
and pieces of bones from animals such as mammuth, raindeer, etc., were found.
There must have been a large variety of different animal species living in the
Eifel during the stoneage! The Kakus cave is huge. Lateron, between 300 and 50
before Christ, the celts lived here. They preferred to dwell on top of the
cave, as the three steep walls of the cave made it easier to defend their
dwellings from high up on the plateau. The kakus cave has been a safe haven for our
forefathers for generations and generations, and thoughout history different epoches of mankind
lived here. The kakus cave is an impressive document of a
landscape that can rightfully call itself one of the oldest cultural regions
in Europe - the Eifel!"
You can find a description of the development and
history of the kakus cave (in German) with pictures here: GeoMontanus.
Here, our two Eurasier dogs Blikki and Don, explore the
cave together with Peter and me:
 
 
Many interesting historical documents can be
found in the vicinity, stemming from the time the Romans settled here. One such
document is a water storage room, the "Römische Brunnenstube", at Kallmuth. This
water storage room has been restored very well. A description there says this
was the beginning of a very long water pipe system which the Romans built to
transport water
from the Eifel all the way to the city of Cologne. This pipe system was 95.4 km
long! It was the largest in the Imperium Romanum, the Roman Empire. Using the
natural slope from the
higher Eifel to the lower situated city of Cologne in the Rhine valley, 20,000
cubic meters of water were transported DAILY. After the Roman time, the pipe
system was no longer used to transport water, then it served to gain
building materials such as limestone and similar.
 
Regarding the Roman water pipe system in the Eifel, you
will find a lot of interesting information in the literature and on the internet.
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