From Oud-Valkenburg you look at an impressive limestone wall, in the middle of the greenery. It looks like you are looking into a cave, but it is a shelter: an overhanging piece of rock.
The cove was probably carved out by a whirlpool in the Geul when it was working to wear out this valley. The various limestone layers have become nicely visible in the wall. Cavities have also been created in the wall by later limestone mining that took place from 1440.
The evidence is not yet conclusive, but it seems that this overhanging rock was used as a shelter as far back as prehistoric times. Several prehistoric tools made of flint have been found here.
Until now, this is the only known bus shelter in the Netherlands. You pronounce the perhaps somewhat impressive name 'just' as 'dulkusberg'. Doälke is the local dialect word for jackdaw, the crow-like bird that probably nested here.
The burrows in the Daölkesberg are used by many more birds…
This text has been automatically translated using an online translation service.
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