Daniel Kehe from Lebenstedt handed over a huge, perfectly preserved mammoth molar. His father had recovered it while diving in Salzgittersee in 1972, painted it and kept it in a display case at home. Lutz Fleddermann, now from Wendeburg, brought a whole box full of bones and tusks, some of them large. These come from various animals and are still to be identified. The donor and his father found them around 1971 at the gravel works on the western shore of Salzgittersee (suction dredger). They actually wanted to buy stones from the gravel quarry to optimize their home and discovered the numerous relics of the Ice Age by chance.

Museum director Arne Homann is not surprised by the new donations. This is because when the Salzgittersee was created for gravel extraction from 1960 onwards, the Ice Age layers in the ground were cut through. The glacial material was dredged up with the gravel and salvaged. However, there are still finds at the bottom of the lake - in places where the layers are exposed or where the same material was later used to build up the lake again. Nevertheless, he is delighted with the new donations. He says: "You can't have enough mammoth teeth" and plans to make the molar and one or two tusk and bone fragments available for the many young and old visitors to his museum to touch in future. After all, experiencing the weight and texture of a piece of the past that is thousands of years old is something quite different from marveling at it through glass.

The Salder Castle Municipal Museum is open every Tuesday to Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Please note: different opening times on public holidays)

The exhibition space on the subject of the Ice Age in Salder Castle (cellar vault) is not barrier-free (stairs).
The Eiszeitgarten with life-size reconstructions of Ice Age large mammals, hunters' camp and "Zwitscherkiste" can currently be visited during the museum's opening hours, weather permitting. Unfortunately, it is also not barrier-free (gravel path).