content: 2026-07-22 capture run — 16 finds across 5 productive sources

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+name: "Königshöhle"
+subtitle: "The cave that named a Copper Age culture, with a hole in the roof the Devil is blamed for"
+date: 2026-07-22
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/konigshohle-kings-cave"
+linkText: "Atlas Obscura"
+source: "Atlas Obscura"
+topics: [travel-and-places, history-and-archives]
+tags: [austria, archaeology, caves, folklore]
+description: "A rock formation outside Baden bei Wien whose 1920s excavations gave the central-Danube Copper Age its name — and whose open ceiling has a much better local explanation."
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+Digs here in the 1920s turned up early Neolithic ceramics, a Lengyel clay spoon, Copper Age jewellery and a fragment of a coin from the emperor Gratian; in 1956 the Hungarian archaeologist János Banner named the whole central-Danube Copper Age the *Baden culture* after the town below. The local story is better. The Devil wore the boulder as a hat to show off his strength, God lifted it onto one finger and set it down, and the hole he left is still open to the sky.