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Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 25.7 ″  E The Ebnether Cellars or Ebnether Felsenkeller are a large number of rock cellars carvedin sandstone in the hillside forest west of the Burgkunstadter district of Ebneth . They have been registered in the Bavarian Geotope Register for more than 40 years as a natural monument under the number 478G002 and as geoscientifically significant .

location

The Ebnether cellars are located at 430 m above sea level. NN at the upper end of a fully wooded slope, the so-called Klingensteig, about 250 meters west of the local thoroughfare of Ebneth. Immediately before the start of the large high plateau with the towns of Ebneth and Hainweiher , the Rhätolias sandstone step is well exposed , i.e. largely free of vegetation. The rock cellars are embedded in this layer of stone in the Burkersdorf Rhätolias hill country . The local Rhätolias sandstone comes from the Upper Keuper .

description

The cellars are located on an area about 250 m long and 50 m wide with rocks protruding about 5 m above ground level. The sandstone viewing step breaks up into over 1000 large boulders near the cellars along wide-open fissures. The area is therefore also referred to as a rock labyrinth. Between the rock cellars there are two natural caves, the Jakobshöhle and the Franzenshöhle. In a large boulder in the eastern part of the cellar there is a staircase carved on the side and a sacrificial trough on the flat top. The boulder is interpreted in esoteric circles as a "healing stone for women's ailments". In prehistoric times, the rugged rock area was probably already settled by the Celts.

use

The cellars were probably built into the rock as early as 1790 and were used to store beer and food until the middle of the 20th century. Nowadays, some of them are still used as storage space. In past centuries the area also served as a leisure location and summer cellar with a bowling alley and a shooting range for the local population.

The Ebnether Felsenkeller are also well known in the region for the Ebnether Kellerfest, a small folk festival at which beer sets are set up in the cellars every year on Father's Day , beer from the Günther brewery is served and various food stands are set up. The first basement festival was held on May 31, 1973; Since then, with a few exceptions, it has been organized by the Ebneth-Hainweiher volunteer fire department. The proceeds are usually used for charitable purposes and fire fighting equipment.

legend

There is a legend about the Jakobs and Franzenshöhle, written down around 1930 by the village teacher August Wippenbeck from Ebneth. According to this, two robber brothers named Jakob and Franz lived in the caves around the year 1576. One day, one of the caves was discovered by the forester of the Marschalk von Ebneth and identified as the Ebnether's cave because of the property that had disappeared in the days before. The forester then called a council of war together with the marshal and lurked in front of the cave until the thief came back from his foray. Two Ebnether and himself died in a fight with him. Startled by the noise, the thief's brother left his neighboring cave, was caught and was also killed. To commemorate this event, the two caves were named after the robbers Jakobs- and Franzenshöhle.

photos

  • The boulder with stairs, which is sometimes ascribed an esoteric healing effect

  • Barred entrance to a rock cellar

  • Glance into one of the Ebnether cellars. It is easy to see how the passage downwards was carved through the massive stone

  • Rock formation in the so-called rock labyrinth

  • Rock formation in the so-called rock labyrinth

literature

  • August Wippenbeck: The Jakobshöhle near Ebneth (written between October 1, 1926 to March 31, 1932). In: Rudi Fetzer: Borkuschter Mosaik , Stadt Burgkunstadt, Burgkunstadt 2009, no ISBN, pp. 347-350

Web links

Commons : Ebnether Keller  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From “Das Fernkraut” No. 3/1971 , farnkraut-coburg.de, accessed on December 28, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Geotop: Ebnether Keller , lfu.bayern.de, accessed on December 28, PDF 169 kB
  3. ↑ a b Thomas Gunzelmann: The cultural landscape around 1840 . In: Günther Dippold: In the upper Main Valley on the Jura an Rodach and Itz , self-published by Kreissparkasse Lichtenfels, Lichtenfels 1990, p. 99
  4. ↑ a b c Bianca Hennings: The power of rocks . In: Neue Presse (Coburg) , August 19, 2011, p. 10, accessed on December 28, 2012, (PDF, 224 kB)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gesundheit-kronach.de  
  5. ↑ Geotope: Felsgruppe W von Ebneth , lfu.bayern.de, accessed on December 28, 2012 (PDF, 178 kB)
  6. ↑ Autumn hike of the Freie Turnerschaft Schney on October 13, 2002  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Freie-turnerschaft-schney.de, accessed on December 28, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.frei-turnerschaft-schney.de  
  7. ↑ Official map, map section Ebneth , geoportal.bayern.de, accessed on December 28, 2012
  8. ↑ Burgkunstadt List of Monuments (PDF; 155 kB), geodaten.bayern.de, accessed on July 13, 2013
  9. ↑ a b History of the Ebneth-Hainweiher volunteer fire brigade ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ff-ebneth-hainweiher.de, accessed on December 28, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ff-ebneth-hainweiher.de
  10. ↑ Wippenbeck (~ 1930), pp. 347-350.