Journey to Venus.

If the "Alb-Guides" to tell, then again, there is ice age. The nature guide to the Swabian Alb, children on a journey into the past. On the migration experience, the kids also learn the "Venus of Hohle Fels know.

 

Anhausen - Christel Hahn, the mammoths of the Ice Age through the Great formally Lautertal graze see. "Idyllic conditions" had there on the Middle Swabian Jura prevailed for the animals, the landscape tells leader. In entertaining episodes she tells her guests from the life and nature thousands of years ago. The 66-year-old is one of nearly 20 federal nature of Germany (Nabu) Alb-trained guides in the park Geo Schwäbische Alb glacial hikes offer. They offer historical tours for adults and adventure tours for children.

The kids are there by an officer disguised as a lion may be surprised and even tinker with arrows. Hahn leads her guests on a slow journey back into the Ice Age. Lot is in the contemplative Anhausen, past the baroque church at the opposite hill topped by a castle. From above is reflected in the hardwood floor a large Wall Ring, a prehistoric fortress. Even the Celts were here gesiedelt says Hahn.

On the edge of a forest is rock free. There on the brink shine floral species, which is already included in the glaciation was colorful in the sun, with cute names like Cliff Blümchen hunger and Brillenschötchen. You are on the Alb rare to find. A piece below is in the Great Cave Gerber, in which for the typical Alb Verkarstungen are clearly visible.

Flints from the field

The Alb is geologically "like a Swiss cheese," says Hahn adults while the children out on a pitted Kalkfelsenwand climb. It recognizes also the misconception, that it was always terribly cold. "The climate went into the Ice Age coaster." Only a quarter of the earth period had been really cold.

Then displays the images of the migrant's Ice Age finds from the Alb. 2006, researchers in the Vogelherdhöhle in Lonetal a carved piece of mammoth ivory were discovered. In mid-May this year, they presented the "Venus of Hohle Fels, a female statuette made of mammoth ivory. With an estimated age 35,000 to 40,000 years, it is considered the oldest human representation worldwide. Also flints from the Jurassic period, the Alb-Guide is the pebble in tubers may be found. "The subject is still on the fields around," says Hahn.

Their tour has them like any Alb-Guide itself. This creates a "ragbag of insider tips," as spokesman Bernd Fausel says. The Alb-guides also have an educational benefit. You want to show the importance of the cultivation of the landscape.

"We hear more and more farmers, and shepherds will also be no more," complains Fausel and suggests the Wachholderheide behind him, at which crickets chirp in the sun. Sheep summarize here the floor and eat only certain plants, describes Fausel. Sun formed a characteristic vegetation, the man was not to model.

So far, the response to the Alb-guides, since 2001, also tours to other themes, rather subdued. The guidebook, however, hoped that the recent inclusion of the Swabian Alb Biosphere Reserve in the circle of the world's most important landscapes by the Unesco tourism boost. It is worth a visit after Hahn's conviction because of the tranquility while hiking. "You see, if you want, no backpack from behind."