Bed cavity

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The Bettenhöhle is a karst cave on Melchsee-Frutt in the municipality of Kerns in the canton of Obwalden . A total length of 30,022 meters has been explored from the cave system. This makes it the fifth longest cave in Switzerland . The system covers an altitude difference of 804 meters. The cave was explored by the Höhlenforscher-Gemeinschaft Trüssel (HGT) and since 2003 by the Höhlenforscher-Gemeinschaft Unterwalden (HGU).

location

The bed cave is located in the karst area of ​​Melchsee-Frutt. This is 15 km² and lies in an altitude range between 1100  m above sea level. M. and 2700  m above sea level. M. The cave system has multiple inputs, including an entrance near the eponymous Bettenalp at 1,819  m above sea level. M. On March 30, 2002 a merger with the Boniloch was discovered, the entrance of which is on the Bonistock at an altitude of 2083  m above sea level. M.

Together with the neighboring caves Schrattenhöhle , Neotektonikhöhle, Chrummegghöhle, Frutthöhle and about 130 other caves, this results in a cave area with a total of 59 kilometers, which is the third largest cave area in Switzerland .

literature

  • Martin Trüssel: From the fox hole to the Schrattenhöhle. Volume 1 and Volume 2, HGT-Verlag, Alpnach 1999, ISBN 3-9521621-0-8 .
  • Martin Trüssel: From the fox hole to the Schrattenhöhle. Volume 3, HGT-Verlag, Alpnach 2003, ISBN 3-9521621-3-2 .
  • Martin Trüssel: From the fox hole to the Schrattenhöhle. Volume 4 and Volume 5, HGT-Verlag, Alpnach 2013, ISBN 978-3-9521621-6-3 .
  • Martin Trüssel: Karst and caves of the Melchsee-Frutt (40 years of research history). In: Kurt Zumbrunn (Ed.): Melchsee-Frutt in the course of time. Grischa, Thusis 2015, ISBN 978-3-906120-21-8 , pp. 31-46.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the fifth longest cave in Switzerland , interview with Martin Trüssel in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung of January 10, 2015, short version online
  2. ↑ Martin Trüssel: Bettenhöhle: 30 km measurement mark exceeded and new, large continuation in depth discovered  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article dated December 30, 2014 on the website of the Foundation “Natural Heritage Karst and Caves Obwalden” (NeKO)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.neko.ch  
  3. ↑ Researchers discover a new cave , article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from January 4, 2012.
  4. ↑ Martin Trüssel: 13.2 km total length of the bed cave: sensational amalgamation of the bed cave with the Boniloch ( memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article dated March 30, 2002 on the website of the Foundation «Natural Heritage Karst and Caves Obwalden» (NeKO) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neko.ch
  5. ↑ Significance of karst and caves ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Information page of the foundation «Natural Heritage Karst and Caves Obwalden» (NeKO)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neko.ch

Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '17.5 "  N , 8 ° 17' 22.9"  E ; CH1903:  664983  /  182243