Anton Völkel Grotto
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 Anton Völkel Grotto |
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| Location: | Koenigstein , Franconian Alb , Germany | |
| Height : | 507 m above sea level NN | |
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Geographic location: |
49 ° 36 '26.4 " N , 11 ° 35' 29.5" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | A 33 | |
| Geology: | dolomite | |
| Type: | Shaft cave | |
| Show cave since: | No | |
| Lighting: | No | |
| Overall length: | 40 meters | |
| Level difference: | 12 m | |
The Anton Völkel Grotto is a natural karst cave near Königstein in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria .
location
The cave is located around 3000 meters west of the Evangelical Church of St. Georg in the village of Königstein on the north-northeast slope of 514.9 m above sea level. NN high mountain Schelmbachstein .
description
The entrance to the Anton Völkel Grotto is hidden on a rock, is very narrow and one meter high. After a ten meter long and low corridor there is a 12 meter deep shaft. This leads into the largest room in the cave and is around 25 meters long, 16 meters wide and up to eight meters high. The cave has some stalactites , sintering and a small water basin. The total length of the cave is about 40 meters. In the cave cadastre Fränkische Alb (HFA) it is shown with the cadastral number A 33.
history
The cave was named after the cave explorer Anton Völkel , who died in an accident on May 10, 1923 . The cave was measured in 1932 by Richard Spöcker and in 1967 by Fritz Huber , and it became famous in 1933 when the police dug up a communist secret printing house. The Nuremberg communist Ludwig Göhring printed leaflets there in 1933 after Hitler came to power . He was supported by Kunigunde Schwab and Frida Spöcker, the wife of cave explorer Richard Spöcker. Ludwig Göhring was arrested in August 1933 and spent over eleven years in prisons and in the Dachau , Flossenbürg and Neuengamme concentration camps . He died in 1999 at the age of 89.
Access
The cave is freely accessible all year round. Due to the cave protection and wintering there bats it can not be from October to April traveled . Because of the deep shaft, it can only be entered by experienced cave walkers with the appropriate equipment.
Surroundings
There are other caves on the Schelmbachstein, the sundial passage cave and the Breitensteiner farmer's wife shaft cave .
literature
- Richard G. Spöcker: Karst phenomena in the Schelmbach area , in: Treatises of the Natural History Society of Nuremberg, Volume 22, Issue 2.
- Fritz Huber: The northern Franconian Alb , Volume 2: The caves of the karst area A , Königstein.
Web links
- Oberpfalznetz, article on Ludwig Göhring
- Caveseekers Anton Völkel Grotto
- University of Erlangen Karst around Neuhaus
Anton Völkel Grotto (Q15605020)
Individual evidence
- ^ Cave map of the Anton Völkel Grotto , accessed on December 19, 2013
- ^ Portrait of Ludwig Göhring , accessed on December 19, 2013
- ^ Article Nürnberger Nachrichten, Courageous Resistance Against the Nazis , accessed December 19, 2013
