Archaeological site · Mauer · Updated on 1 November 2026.
Fundstelle Homo heidelbergensis is an archaeological site in Mauer, Baden-Württemberg. This place has a story in the app. Within 210 m you'll find a bench.
Story · Fundstelle Homo heidelbergensis
You're standing in Mauer, about ten kilometres south-east of Heidelberg, at the old Grafenrain sand quarry. Have a look around. Not much to see, really: fields and nature. And yet this is where one of the most famous finds in human history was made.
Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).
Source: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.
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No, according to OpenStreetMap it is not wheelchair accessible.
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