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| Location: | Neuhaus an der Pegnitz , Franconian Switzerland , Germany | |
| Height : | 400 m above sea level NN | |
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Geographic location: |
49 ° 37 '24.6 " N , 11 ° 33' 42.9" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | A 26 | |
| Geology: | dolomite | |
| Type: | Stalactite cave | |
| Discovery: | 1905 | |
| Show cave since: | No | |
| Lighting: | No | |
| Overall length: | 90 meters | |
| Level difference: | -17 meters | |
| Particularities: | Only accessible between April 1st and September 30th | |
The Distlergrotte is a karst cave near Finstermühle , a district of the Central Franconian market town of Neuhaus an der Pegnitz in the district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria .
location
The Distlergrotte, also known as Finstermühlhöhle , is located at the entrance to the Haselloh valley on the southern slope of the vineyard, about one kilometer southeast of Neuhaus an der Pegnitz. It is registered as A 26 in the Franconian Alb cave register (HFA).
description
The size of the partially walled entrance to the Distlergrotte is about 0.5 × 1.5 meters, it is 13 meters above the bottom of the Haselloh valley dry valley. The entrance is closed with an iron bar in winter during the bat protection season. The cave has a total length of around 90 meters and is constructed as a downward-facing floor system with crevices and small hall rooms. Directly behind the narrow entrance is the 20 meter long, eight meter wide and two to nine meter high entrance hall, the so-called central hall, which is also the largest room. From there, the east corridor at the rear end of the hall leads down to the right with a small climbing step and ends in the rubble. There are still isolated sinter groups , moon milk and ceiling puffs to be found. The west corridor to the left of the access also leads over rock steps down to a small, approximately 6 × 2 meter large and up to two meter deep cave lake. This lake is 17 meters below the entrance level and four meters below the bottom of the dry valley. Its water level fluctuates by up to two meters, it also marks the deepest point of the cave.
history
The cave was named after Johannes Distler, who discovered it in 1905 and carried out the first excavations by 1928. The Distlergrotte served as a beer cellar and was run as a show cave until 1915 .
Traces of settlement from the Urnfield and Hallstatt periods were found in the entrance area of the cave ; In 1909, the paleontologist Max Schlosser found ice-age animal bones of mammoths , woolly-haired rhinos , cave bears , cave hyenas , reindeer , red deer , wild horses , bison and primeval cattle . In 1955 Manfred Moser from Regensburg discovered animal remains of collar lemmings , steppe iltis , arctic fox and ptarmigan . The reason for the introduction of these animal remains is not clear. The finds can be viewed in the Museum of the Natural History Society in Nuremberg and in the Natural History Museum in Regensburg . The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation has included the cave as a ground monument (cave station from the Urnfield period).
Protected area
The cave is designated as geotope 574H003, a natural monument and a ground monument D-5-6335-0021: Cave station of the Urnfield period .
Access
The Distlergrotte is freely accessible. Due to the cave protection and the wintering bats there , it is closed from October 1st to March 31st. Who the cave completely navigate wants, should bring some cave experience and appropriate equipment. It can be reached from Neuhaus via a hiking trail marked with a green dot on a white background (karst hiking trail).
literature
- Stephan Lang: Höhlen in Franken - A hiking guide into the underworld of Hersbrucker Switzerland and the Upper Palatinate Jura . Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-418-00390-7 , pp. 59-60.
- Bettina Stoll-Tucker: Post-Ice Age cave use using the example of the upper Pegnitz valley (Northern Franconian Alb). Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 1997, ISBN 3-9803996-6-4 , passim.
- Friedrich Herrmann: Caves of the Franconian and Hersbrucker Switzerland . 2nd improved edition. Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 1991, ISBN 3-418-00356-7 , p. 130.
Web links
- Geotope "Distlergrotte" (PDF; 171 kB) in the geotope register Bavaria
- Caveclimbers
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephan Lang: Höhlen in Franken - A hiking guide into the underworld of Hersbrucker Switzerland and the Upper Palatinate Jura , p. 59
- ^ Entry of the Distlergrotte (D-5-6335-0021) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ^ Geotope register Bavaria
- ↑ For the route, see the karst hiking trail (OpenStreetMap)