Eiszeitpark Engen, Ice Age park in Engen, Germany.
Eiszeitpark Engen is a nature park built around the Petersfels rock formation with walking routes and information paths. The site displays discoveries from the last Ice Age and explains how the landscape evolved during that period.
Researchers have been digging here since 1927 and uncovered tools, bones, and art objects from the Stone Age. These findings show that people regularly visited this spot during the Ice Age.
The name Petersfels refers to the rocky landscape that defines the site. Visitors can see today the same rock formation that people sought out thousands of years ago.
The park is open all year and free to enter; there is no visitor centre. The Eiszeitpfad, a circular route of about three kilometres, starts near Bittelbrunn, roughly 2.5 km east of Engen town centre in the Brudertal by the Petersfels. Information panels along it are in three languages.
The plants along the Eiszeitpfad are a reconstruction of a steppe-tundra from about 15,000 years ago, labelled on panels in three languages. Among them are tamarisk, rock rose, perennial flax, bog birch, field mugwort, spring adonis, silverweed and dwarf willow.
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