Driny
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| Location: | Smolenice commune | |
| Height : | 399 m nm | |
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Geographic location: |
48 ° 30 '2 " N , 17 ° 24' 14" E | |
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| Geology: | lime | |
| Discovery: | 1929 | |
| Show cave since: | 1935 | |
| Lighting: | electric | |
| Overall length: | 680 m | |
| Level difference: | 40 m | |
| Length of the show cave area: |
450 m | |
| Website: | http://www.ssj.sk/de/jaskyna/8-die-hohle-driny | |
Driny is the name of a cave in the Little Carpathians under the mountain of the same name ( 434 m nm ) near the municipality of Smolenice ( Okres Trnava ). It is currently the only show cave in western Slovakia . It is a total of 680 m long, a large part of which is operated as a show cave.
The entrance was already known in the 19th century. In the final days of the German War in 1866, Prussian soldiers camped at the entrance. But it wasn't until the 1920s that the discovery efforts were in full swing. In 1929 J. Banič (son of Štefan Banič ) and I. Vajsábel managed to descend deeper into the karst funnel chimney and in 1932 they reached the cave itself, at a depth of 36 m. In 1935 a 175 m long section with temporary electrical lighting that has been permanent since 1943 was opened. After further discoveries, the show cave area was further enlarged in 1959. Since 1968 the cave has been a national natural monument of Slovakia.
The cave is formed in the Mesozoic chert limestone of the Lower Cretaceous. The corridors ( Chodba spolupracovníkov , Beňovského chodba , Chodba nádejí ) were caused by rainwater that got into the subsoil due to disturbances, so they are rather narrow. Halls like Sieň Slovenskej speleologickej spoločnosti are also small and arose at the intersections of these faults. In the cave there are various sintered structures such as sinter curtains, sinter waterfalls, further pagoda-like stalagmites, various stalactites and sinter lakes.
The relative humidity is 92 to 97%, the air temperature is between 7.1 and 7.8 ° C in the rear part. Despite their small size, 11 bat species are known to this day , such as the lesser horseshoe bat ( Rhinolophus hipposideros ), the great horseshoe bat ( Rhinolophus ferrumequinum ), the great mouse- eared bat ( Myotis myotis ), the pug bat ( Barbastella barbastellus ) or the brown long-eared bat ( Plecotus auritus ).
Web links
- Information from the Slovak cave administration in German
- Entry on mineraly.sk (Slovak)
- Entry on sopsr.sk (Slovak, English)