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Pingen Field in Upper Palatinate

Pingen Field in Upper Palatinate

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Pingen Field in Upper Palatinate

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Location: Ebermannsdorf, Amberg-Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

May 12, 2024

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There is no longer a path to the pinge fields. You have to fight your way cross-country through the undergrowth. At some point you can't go any further and you have to turn back.

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Naturpark Hirschwald

March 30, 2021

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Pingen are funnel pits in which iron ore was mined using a very shallow mining method (no tunnels!). The chronological classification is difficult, but they were probably created and exploited until the late Middle Ages. In the field you can see them as funnels in the ground, often arranged like fields. In contrast to the sinkholes that are also common here, pings usually have a raised edge due to the ejecta.

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Hel

April 8, 2019

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Pingenfelder are elongated depressions in the area, due to tunnel lintels. Here you can see such a depression in the forest.

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Elevation 460 m

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Location: Ebermannsdorf, Amberg-Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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