Beerberg grotto
| Beerberg grotto
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| Location: | South Thuringia , Germany | |
| Height : | 780 m above sea level NN | |
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Geographic location: |
50 ° 50 '37.5 " N , 10 ° 26' 29.6" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | 5128/01 | |
| Geology: | porphyry | |
| Type: | Cleft and crevice cave | |
| Overall length: | 9 meters | |
| Particularities: | Old mining | |
The Beerberg Grotto is a cleft and crevice cave in Thuringia . It is located about three kilometers north of the town center of Brotterode and 1.5 kilometers (as the crow flies) west of the summit of the Großer Inselsberg on the western slope of the Upper Beerberg in the rocks of the Beerbergstein. The Rennsteig runs barely 50 meters from the cave , where a sign draws attention to the cave.
description
Members of the local group Wutha-Farnroda of the Thüringer Höhlenverein e. V. entered the cave in the summer of 1990 and measured it.
The cave is a gap in the cave Rotliegenden - porphyry . A mouth hole six meters wide was measured in the entrance area . The ridge height is only 1.4 meters. Two directions of fracture were registered in the immediate vicinity of the mouth hole. These fissures with the strike of 333 ° ( falling 82 °) and 318 ° (falling 40 °) are, according to the cave explorers, the main cause of the formation of this cave.
The total documented length of the cave is nine meters. However, the cave is already filled with natural erosion about four meters from the mouth hole and inaccessible at the rear, the cave explorers found two crawlways, which can be traced about 4 meters down on the eastern and western edges of the cave.
The cave is very humid at times, hence its popular name as a grotto . In the left rear part a small puddle was found during the measurement.
According to local tradition, Venedians are said to have stored in the front, always accessible part . The name of the neighboring Venetian stone to the east also suggests this. According to a legend, a Steinbach blacksmith named Simon happened to have seen the Venetians fetch gold from the mountain here.
An inconspicuous spoil pile just below the mouth hole in the slope is interpreted as evidence of a late medieval mining attempt.
The well-known, eye-catching cave served as a shelter and emergency quarters for smugglers , forest workers and hikers.
The Beerberg Grotto can be visited without aids.
literature
- Uwe Peter: The Beerberg grotto on the Beerbergstein near Brotterode . In: Thüringer Höhlenverein eV (Hrsg.): Höhlenforschung in Thüringen . Issue 2. Self-published, Eisenach 1990, p. 13-15 .
- Otto Ludwig: The Rennsteig . Greifenverlag zu Rudolstadt, 1988, p. 105 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lotar Köllner: Little men came from the south, called Venediger, and wherever they lingered, ores were waiting ... In: EP Report 3. Heimatblätter '92. Marburg 1992, ISBN 3-924269-95-5 , pp. 112-114.