Well cave
| Well cave
|
||
|---|---|---|
| Location: | Lower Austria , Austria | |
| Height : | 280 m above sea level A. | |
|
Geographic location: |
47 ° 57 '52.9 " N , 16 ° 12' 23" E | |
|
||
| Cadastral number: | 1911/8 | |
| Geology: | Vöslauer conglomerate | |
| Type: | Conglomerate cave | |
| Overall length: | 131 m | |
| Level difference: | 16 m (+16 m) | |
The Brunnenhöhle (also called Mainonihöhle , cadastral number 1911/8) is a 131 meter long conglomerate cave at the bottom of a well shaft in Gainfarn, a district of the Lower Austrian town of Bad Vöslau . The cave was first described by Adolph von Morlot in 1847 , in 1980 only 60 meters of passage length had been explored. The cave is not freely accessible.
location
With a total length of 131 meters, the Brunnenhöhle is one of the most important caves in the Vienna Woods . According to the Trimmelsch mountain group structure , the cave is in the subgroup 1911 Hoher Lindkogel , in Gainfarn near Bad Vöslau. The upper entrance of the well shaft is located on the property on Hauptstrasse No. 8 in Gainfarn at 280 meters above sea level.
Well shaft
In the 20 meters deep, the top 5 meters bricked, well shaft with a diameter of almost 1.5 meters there is an old, heavily rusted ladder that leads down to just above the water level. From there you can get off on iron trusses. The shaft is closed at the top with a concrete cover. The water depth was sounded on March 2, 1985 at two meters.
Subsequent courses
From the traverses you slip through a narrow passage into a very low room with a loamy floor. There is a larger, shallow pool of water to the east. To the north-east there is a 20-meter-long, rising chasm with an average height of two meters. At the end of it, a silt branches off to the right , which leads back to the southwest. This part of the cave, which is only 0.3 meters high, was only explored in the 1980s. At its end there is also a pool of water that is only two meters away from the one in the entrance area. A connection between these two parts cannot therefore be ruled out. At the end of the chasm, another corridor leads to the left, which is wider and higher than the previous one, to the northeast, past col-like extensions. At its end, room heights of up to three meters are reached.
geology
The cave is located in the Miocene Age Vöslauer conglomerate .
In the uppermost section, the shaft leads through clayey soils until it reaches the conglomerate at a depth of 16 meters. Damaged sintered jewelry as well as small, clumsy eccentric formations can be seen in the colossal shapes of the cave ceiling . In the sandy sediments of the soil there are isolated fragments of sintered blankets and sintered blankets. According to old descriptions, however, the cave is said to have had beautiful stalactite jewelry in the past.
literature
- Max Herbert Fink, Helga Hartmann, Wilhelm Hartmann: The caves of Lower Austria. Volume 2, p. 219; Tape. 4, pp. 392-393; Cave plan p. 392; Photos p. 650.
- Anonymous: Newly discovered cave. In: Negotiations of the Imperial Geological Institute. 6, Vienna 1874.
- Anonymous: 20 meters below the main street: Successful cave exploration near Vienna . In: Wiener Montagblatt . Vienna October 11, 1937.
- Josef Bersch: About the cave areas discovered during Gainfahren in Lower Austria. In: Negotiations of the Imperial Geological Institute. 4, Vienna 1867 ( PDF (345 kB) on ZOBODAT ).
- Max Herbert Fink: Caves without natural entrances. Actes du 4e CIS, Volume III, Ljubljana 1968.
- Adolph von Morlot: Cave in Vöslau. Reports on communications from friends of the natural sciences in Vienna, Ed. Haidinger W., Vienna 1848.
- Franz Waldner: The well cave in Gainfarn. Our home, Vienna 1946.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ami Boué : About tertiary dolomite breccias, about caves in the Leitha conglomerate Vöslaus and about lakes and ponds in geological relation . In: Session reports of the Academy of Sciences, mathematical and scientific class . tape 44 , 1861, pp. 619 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed September 15, 2012]).
- ↑ Rudolf Pavuza: A geochronologisches result of the well cavity in Bad Vöslau (Lower Austria). In: The cave. 039, 1988, p. 90 ( PDF (1.4 MB) on ZOBODAT , accessed on January 25, 2013).