Dachstein mammoth cave

Dachstein mammoth cave
Dachstein mammoth cave old part
Location:	Dachstein Mountains near Obertraun , Upper Austria
Height :	1368  m above sea level A.
Geographic location:	47 ° 32 '7 "  N , 13 ° 42' 35"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '7 "  N , 13 ° 42' 35"  E
Cadastral number:	1547/9
Geology:	Dachstein Limestone
Discovery:	1910
Show cave since:	1911
Lighting:	electric
Overall length:	over 67 km (as of 2013)
Level difference:	+423, -757 (Kasperek 1981)
Length of the show cave area:	1 km
Website:	Mammoth cave

The Dachstein Mammoth Cave is located on the edge of the northern Dachstein Mountains above the municipality of Obertraun ( Upper Austria ) in close proximity to the Dachstein Giant Ice Cave and the Hirlatz Cave .

History, research and tourism

To date, the cave has been measured over 67 kilometers of corridor length and research is still going on, so that new discoveries are made almost every year. It is one of the longest and most important caves in Austria and also in Europe.

The cave, the difference in height between the highest and lowest known points is more than 1200 meters, was discovered in 1910 and opened a little later as a show cave for tourists. In summer, visitors can get an impression of the enormous size of the cave on a one-kilometer circular path. This leads through a short artificial tunnel (new east entrance) into the Lahnerhalle and then into the hall of the forgotten . From there it goes through the large tunnel-like paleotraun to the midnight cathedral . Here is the turning point of the guide way. From there on to the arcade cave and back to the Lahnerhalle .

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natural reserve

In Austria, caves are in principle (ex-lege) under strict nature protection. This cave and its surroundings were also declared a natural monument in 1973 ( nd614 , nature conservation book: OÖ-64 / Obertraun). The area lies in the core zone of the UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape of Hallstatt – Dachstein / Salzkammergut  ( WHS 806 ) and in the Dachstein European and nature reserve ( bird protection and FFH area , AT3101000 / EU02 ; n098 ).

See also

• Dachstein giant ice cave
• Koppenbrüller cave

literature

• Robert Bouchal, Josef Wirth: Cave Guide Austria - Over 100 caves with sketches, plans, access descriptions and 150 photos . Pichler Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85431-234-2 , pp. 122-124.
• Günter Stummer: Atlas of the Dachstein Mammoth Cave 1: 1000 . Knowledge Supplement to the magazine "Die Höhle" No. 32.
• With Günter Stummer and Herbert W. Franke in the Dachstein Mammut Cave, in: Glück deep - Cave explorers tell , 2-CD box, supposé, Berlin 2015 ISBN 978-3-86385-005-0

Web links

Commons : Dachstein Mammuthöhle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the cadastral association
• Dachstein Mammuthöhle and the surrounding area , in Upper Austria: Geographical Nature Conservation Information System (GENISYS) - entry in DORIS missing (2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Notice of August 30, 1973 (Agrar - 450003-5509-I / Ha).
   Information in Gerhard W. Mandl (author chapter 2): Pilot project "Karstwasser Dachstein" . Volume 2: Karst hydrology and risk of contamination of springs . In: Geologische Bundesanstalt (Hrsg.): Archive for deposit research (=  monographs volume 108. M-108). tape 21 . Vienna 2001, 2.4 Geological natural monuments in the Dachstein region , 2nd Dachstein Mammut Cave (1,368 m) , p. 39 ( pdf , googledrive.com [accessed April 10, 2014]). pdf ( Memento of the original from April 13, 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.  
2. ↑ Dachstein European Protected Area (bird sanctuary and FFH area, AT3101000) , Dachstein nature reserve in the communities of Gosau, Hallstatt and Obertraun , Genisys