Wuerttemberg Hall

Skeletons of two cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) and of a wolf (Canis lupus) from Pleistocene sediments of the Erpfingen Bear Cave on the Swabian Alb (Photo: W. Gerber).

Baden-Wuerttemberg ranks among the most classical find areas for geology and palaeontology.

An abundance of unique fossils offers views of the different ecosystems from Wuerttemberg’s geological history.

The oldest deposits formed about 300 million years ago, the most recent before some ten thousand years ago in the Erpfinger bear cave, whose cave bear skeletons are original fossils.