Dobšinská ľadová jaskyňa

Dobšinská ľadová jaskyňa
Great Hall, Dobšinská ľadová jaskyňa
Location:	Stratená municipality (Verlorenseifen)
Height :	969  m nm
Geographic location:	48 ° 52 '0.7 "  N , 20 ° 18' 13.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '0.7 "  N , 20 ° 18' 13.6"  E
Geology:	Steinalm and Wetterstein limestone
Type:	Ice cave
Discovery:	1870
Show cave since:	1881
Lighting:	electric
Overall length:	1483 m
Level difference:	112 m
Length of the show cave area:	475 m
Average annual number of visitors:	81,100 (2005-2009)
Website:	http://www.ssj.sk/sk/jaskyna/6-dobsinska-ladova-jaskyna

The Dobšinská ľadová jaskyňa (German Dobschauer Ice Cave ) is an ice cave in Slovakia on the territory of the municipalities Dobšiná (Dobschau) and Stratená (literally: the lost) in the Karst Spišsko-gemerský kras within the Slovenský raj ( Slovak Paradise ) mountain range . It is one of the largest and most interesting of the few ice caves in Europe. It also gives its name to a district of Stratená .

It is located in the Stratená nature reserve in the Slovak Paradise National Park. It was created by the flow activities of the Hnilec ( Göllnitz ) stream .

history

It was discovered on June 15, 1870 by the citizens of Dobschau, Eugen Ruffíni (Jenő Ruffinyi, mining engineer), Andreas Méga, Gustav Lang and Nándor Fehér, who climbed into a mysterious crack from which an icy draft had always been blowing. Only a year later, the cave was made accessible thanks to the enthusiastic local residents. In 1887 it was one of the first in Europe to be electrically illuminated.

In the 1950s, the famous Czechoslovak ice skater Karol Divín and the Czechoslovak national ice hockey team trained in the Great Hall there, alongside other figure skaters .

In 2000 the cave was added to the UNESCO natural heritage as an extension of the serial World Heritage Site Caves in the Aggtelek and Slovak Karst .

Characteristic

The entrance is about 20 minutes above the valley floor on the northern slope of Mount Duca.

Of the 1,483 meters total length, only 475 meters have been accessible since 1871. A visit (May 15 to September 30) takes a little more than half an hour. The vertical difference in level is 112 m. Below the ice cave is a stalactite cave that was explored by amateurs around 1950 .

The ice filling occurs in the form of floor ice , ice falls, ice stalagmites and pillars. The ice surface is 9,772 m², the ice volume is 110,100 m³.

The Great Hall, in which the air temperature is –3.8 ° C to +0.5 ° C and the ice thickness is 26.5 m, and the giant ice block that fills part of the cave system (over 100,000 cubic meters) are very interesting. A chapel has been cut into the giant block of ice. Outside the Alpine region, nowhere else in Europe are there more than 110,000 cubic meters of ice that is over 25 meters thick.

The ice holds up thanks to the shape of the cave (the passage leads diagonally downwards from the entrance) and can be admired in the ice cave in the form of bottom ice, ice fall , ice stalagmites and ice pillars.

Web links

Commons : Dobšinská ľadová jaskyňa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Slovak caves
• UNESCO World Heritage Site website

Individual evidence

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