Object description

Drachenhöhle or Drachenhöhle Mixnitz is a 542 m long cave with a 20 m wide and 12 m high entrance near Mixnitz, Styria, Austria, south-east of Bruck an der Mur located at an elevation of 950 m above sea level. Cave bear of the species and other bone fossils that people found during the Middle Ages were deemed to be the bones of dragons, a belief that culminated in the saga of the "Dragon slayer of Mixnitz". The cave is one of the largest caves in the Alps where bears occupied an area that stretched over a length of way over 500 m , by an average width of up to 40 m and a height of 10 to 15 m .