site: reviews — Gedenkstein Melitta Bentz, Königshöhle (graduate from finds)

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 - **Correction made in the find as well as the review.** The find said the planting was "a nod to the oyster farm Marie Antoinette kept on this stretch of Normandy coast." That is wrong twice over. The oyster park is real — rock-cut basins below the cliffs, dug 1783–84 by a man styling himself the Baron de Bellevert, supplying Paris and Versailles — but Marie Antoinette's personal connection is regional tradition, hedged even by local histories with *paraît-il*. The garden's own site did assert the Marie Antoinette framing for years (2019–2024 captures), and that page has since vanished from the redesigned site. The find body was rewritten to say the section echoes the oyster park below the cliffs, with no royal claim; the review states the real 1783–84 history and flags the royal line explicitly as tradition rather than record.
 - **Deliberately not asserted:** the head count (aggregators consistently say seven; neither the garden nor the artist publishes a figure) and the dimensions (published nowhere). The review says so out loud and ends on it rather than quietly picking a number.
 ~436-word body. Amazon: n/a (a place).
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+## 2026-07-22 — reviews: gedenkstein-melitta-bentz-dresden, konigshohle-baden-bei-wien
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+**gedenkstein-melitta-bentz-dresden** — graduated from the find captured 2026-07-22, source: Atlas Obscura.
+Hero: the find's `hero.jpg` copied across — Landesfrauenrat Sachsen, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia "Frauenorte Sachsen, Infotafel Melitta Bentz an der einstigen Produkttionsstätte in Dresden-Trachau.jpg", downscaled to 2000px.
+Category: history (existing).
+Link upgraded from the Atlas Obscura entry to `frauenorte-sachsen.de/die-frauen/melitta-bentz/` — the project that actually erected the memorial; `source` stays Atlas Obscura.
+Fact-check (subagent, against DPMA, Melitta Group's own history, Sächsische Biografie, Deutsche Biographie, frauenorte-sachsen.de, Stadtwiki Dresden and local Dresden press): **three errors in the same-day find, all three corrected in the find as well as the review, plus two live source disputes surfaced rather than papered over.**
+- **(1) It was not a patent.** The find said she "registered the filter with the Imperial Patent Office" and implied a patent. The DPMA's own page is explicit: it was a **Gebrauchsmuster** (utility model), filed **20 June 1908** and entered in the register on **8 July 1908**. Corrected in both.
+- **(2) The company was founded the same year, not the next.** The find said she "started her company the next year". M. Bentz was registered with the Dresden trade office on **15 December 1908**, at the same Marschallstraße address. Corrected in both.
+- **(3) "Very few German women held patents then" was dropped.** No quantitative figure for women's share of patents or utility models in Imperial Germany could be traced to any source. The DPMA makes only the qualitative claim that she was among the first women to protect her own invention, and that is what both the find and the review now say.
+- Also corrected: the paper came from **son Willy's** school exercise book specifically, not "her sons' notebooks"; and the Trachau building was outgrown over fifteen years (production moved in in 1914, the company left Dresden for Minden in 1929), so the find's "quickly" was cut.
+- **Two disputes stated in the review rather than resolved.** The vessel: the DPMA, Melitta's own company history, Sächsische Biografie and Deutsche Biographie all say a perforated **brass** cup; German Wikipedia and dresden-online say a **tin can** punched with nails. The starting capital: **72** pfennigs per the DPMA, frauenorte-sachsen and German Wikipedia, **73** per Stadtwiki Dresden and several t-online pieces, which claim to quote the original register. The find now says "a metal cup" and takes 72 as the better-sourced figure; the review names both splits outright and closes on them.
+- Confirmed and added as the spine of the review: the memorial is at **Wilder-Mann-Straße 13a**, unveiled **29 June 2020 — seventy years to the day after her death** — as the **twentieth** frauenorte sachsen marker, by the Landesfrauenrat Sachsen with the housing cooperative now on the site. Its best detail is that the stone was already there: it had stood elsewhere on the property, was removed years earlier to widen a fire-department lane, was found broken into three pieces during renovation, and was restored and re-erected in a rose bed with a plaque reading *Melitta Bentz, geb. Liebscher, 1873 bis 1950. Erfinderin und Unternehmerin.* That account is single-sourced to Pieschen-Aktuell and could not be cross-verified; the review reports it as what the stone is, without embroidery. **Deliberately not asserted:** any reading of the motif carved on the stone (a disc above three tapering drops — it looks like a filter and drips, but nothing documents the carving's origin or intent, and the stone predates the memorial), Melitta-Bentz-Straße in Albertstadt, and the "100 Dresdeners of the 20th century" listing (both single- or secondary-sourced and not needed).
+~455-word body (narrative-subject allowance; well under the 600 ceiling). Amazon: n/a (a place).
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+**konigshohle-baden-bei-wien** — graduated from the find captured 2026-07-22, source: Atlas Obscura.
+Hero: the find's `hero.jpg` copied across — Uoaei1, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia "Baden Königshöhle 01.jpg", downscaled to 2000px from 5964×3976. Atlas Obscura uses the same image at full size, which independently confirms the subject.
+Category: history (existing).
+Fact-check (subagent, against German/English Wikipedia citing Ladenbauer-Orel's 1954 *Archaeologia Austriaca* paper, Kulturatlas Niederösterreich, the NÖ Naturdenkmäler register, bergsteigen.com and sagen.at): **the find's central claim was wrong in both of its parts, and both are corrected in the find as well as the review.**
+- **(1) Wrong excavator, wrong century.** The find said "digs here in the 1920s". The cave was in fact dug out almost entirely in **January 1892** by **Gustav Calliano**, a Baden amateur local historian with no training, who — per Kulturatlas Niederösterreich — "interpreted it with great imagination" and appears to have concluded it was a pottery kiln. Everything came from a single mixed ash layer. Oswald Menghin and Josef Bayer only **catalogued** the assemblage in the 1920s, thirty years after it left the ground.
+- **(2) Wrong person named the culture, by thirty-odd years.** The find credited **János Banner in 1956**. Banner's 1956 monograph is *Die Péceler Kultur* — the first comprehensive treatment, published under the **Hungarian** name. The term *Baden culture* is credited to **Menghin** in the 1920s. No source gives a precise coining year, so the review says "the 1920s" and stops there.
+- **(3) Scope corrected, not just attribution.** "The cave that named a Copper Age culture" overstates it. The cave **lent** the name; the culture's actual evidentiary base is stratified Carpathian Basin sites (Budakalász, Ózd, Nitriansky Hrádok, Vučedol), not one un-stratified Austrian dig at the western edge of the distribution. The subtitle was changed from "named" to "lent … its name" and the review says so in as many words.
+- Confirmed and used: cave register no. 1911/27, 25 m deep, a 16 × 3 m portal at ~350 m in the Wolfstal below Burgruine Rauheneck, with a genuine **four-metre ceiling window** over a collapse block; Naturdenkmal by decision of the Lower Austrian government dated **11 October 1973**; freely accessible on a marked path and now carrying about **19 bouldering problems**. Finds confirmed as documented: Linear Pottery sherds ~2,000 years older than the Baden ware beside them, Baden amphorae and flat bowls (one anthropomorphic), a copper eyelet neck-ring, and a fragment of a bronze *follis* of the emperor **Gratian** (d. 383). The clay spoon is only tentatively Lengyel and the review says "may be"; the claimed Palaeolithic layer is flagged in the sources as no longer provable and was left out entirely.
+- **The best thing the fact-check turned up**, and now the review's closing movement: the Devil legend is not aggregator invention. It is printed in **Carl Calliano's *Niederösterreichischer Sagenschatz*, Vienna 1924, vol. II, p. 64** — and Carl was the **brother of Gustav**, the man who emptied the cave in 1892. One brother dug the hole out and got it wrong; the other wrote down why it was there.
+~488-word body (narrative-subject allowance). Amazon: n/a (a place).
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+Not graduated this run, and why: **white-oak-avenue-et-flight** was the next candidate on media (CC0 hero of the cedar tunnel) but its story is already complete in three sentences — a review would have padded, not expanded. **orate-mac-text-to-speech** and **chalk-macos-sketch-app** are the strongest software candidates and both are held on the same ground as flashfilter on 07-21: Orate publishes only a wordmark card, and while Chalk has a real screenshot it is a v0.1.1 release whose pricing is not yet stated, so the "current availability and price model" half of the fact-check has nothing to check. Revisit Chalk when it prices.