Kindergartens, schools and day visitors are enthusiastic about the exhibition of a mammoth tooth in the Holzkirchner town hall.
The find can be admired there until Friday.
Holzkirchen
– Mammoth fever has broken out in kindergarten groups and school classes: Seven weeks after the start of the exhibition in Holzkirchen town hall and after the second extension, Norbert Strauß sums it up: “The response was tremendous.”
As reported, Willibald Braun, a geologically interested person from Dietramszell, accidentally found the approximately 25,000-year-old molar of a female woolly mammoth in the Teufelsgraben.
After the discovery between the B 13 south of Holzkirchen and Dietramszell, Strauss had the Holzkirchen Geo-Lehrpfad project group identify the tooth from the Palaeontological State Collection in Munich and preserved it - before it found its place in the showcase in Holzkirchner town hall.
100 kindergarten children, 85 students and guests from the adult education center
Since mid-January, Strauss has been guiding more than 100 kindergarten children through the exhibition, explaining the background to around 50 primary school children, welcoming 35 high school students and 35 guests from the adult education center.
There were countless day visitors who admired the twelve by nine centimeter tooth without a guide in the foyer of the building.
Actually, from the beginning of February, the find should then be shown in the Siegsdorf Natural History and Mammoth Museum.
But the interest in Holzkirchen was so great that Strauss only extended the exhibition until the end of February and now until Friday, March 3rd.
Strauss particularly enjoyed visiting the kindergarten groups.
"They can't imagine much less than five tons," says Holzkirchner.
He therefore used a 40 centimeter mammoth hand puppet to help.
Since he can't do ventriloquism, he used a trick, Strauss explains with a smile.
"I explained to the children that the mammoth actually wanted to give the lecture itself, but was so tired that it asked me to do it."
“Now there is only the Ice Age”: children enthusiastic about guided tours
Strauss also had an explanation ready for the size of the hand puppet: "The mammoth papa couldn't come again after it didn't fit through the door of the town hall on the first try," says Strauss.
The Holzkirchner illustrated the amount of feed of several hundred kilograms with a hay bale.
“Everyone can imagine that.” The children were smitten – many of them would now want to become Ice Age researchers.
"The dinosaur is out, now there is only the ice age," says Strauss and laughs.
He was very impressed by how enthusiastic the children were about the little things.
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