Doctor's Den

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Doctor's Den

Entrance portal of the doctor's cave

Entrance portal of the doctor's cave
Location: Muggendorf , Franconian Switzerland , Germany
Height : 515  m above sea level NN
Geographic
location: 		49 ° 47 '58.9 "  N , 11 ° 16' 33.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '58.9 "  N , 11 ° 16' 33.3"  E
Doktorshöhle (Bavaria)
Doctor's Den
Cadastral number: C 62
Type: Stalactite cave
Discovery: 1905
Show cave since: No
Lighting: No
Overall length: 50 meters
Level difference: −2.5 meters

The Doktorshöhle is a natural karst cave near Muggendorf , a district of the Upper Franconian community Wiesenttal in the Forchheim district in Bavaria .

description

The cave is located on the Hohlen Berg , about one kilometer east of Muggendorf . The doctor's cave is about 50 meters long, its entrance measures about five by three meters. After its discovery, the cave was heavily modified by development work. There are still remains of the original stalactite jewelry and some sinter basins .

The Doktorshöhle is registered in the Franconian Alb cave cadastre (HFA) as C 62 and by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation as soil monument D-4-6133-0114.

Picture gallery

  • Sinter curtain

  • Doktorshoehle 2017a.jpg
  • Doktorshoehle 2017b.jpg
  • Doktorshoehle 2017c.jpg

history

The cave was named after the Muggendorf doctor Dr. Adolf Schauwienold, who discovered it in 1905. The cave became famous when Herbert W. Franke , an Austrian journalist, scientist and cave researcher, carried out a radiometric determination of the age ( C14 method ) of a stalactite in 1959 .

Access

The Doktorshöhle was closed with a wooden door for a long time, but is again accessible all year round. To Befahrung no special equipment is required. Due to the protection of the caves and the bats that hibernate there , it is not accessible from October to April.

literature

  • Stephan Lang: Höhlen in Franken - hiking guide into the underworld of Franconian Switzerland with new tours . Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-418-00385-6 , p. 85.
  • Brigitte Kaulich, Hermann Schaaf: Small guide to caves around Muggendorf . 3rd, unchanged edition. Natural History Society - Department for Cave and Karst Research, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-922877-00-1 , pp. 42–45.
  • Hardy Schabdach: Underground Worlds - Caves of Franconian and Hersbruck Switzerland . Verlag Reinhold Lippert, Ebermannstadt 2000, ISBN 3-930125-05-6 , pp. 36-38.

Web links

Commons : Doktorshöhle (Muggendorf)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wiesenttal Monument List (accessed on January 17, 2015)