Einhornhöhle (Austria)

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Unicorn cave

Guide house in front of the cave entrance (September 2007)

Guide house in front of the cave entrance (September 2007)
Location: Hohe Wand Nature Park , Lower Austria
Height : 585  m above sea level A.
Geographic
location: 		47 ° 51 '27 "  N , 16 ° 5' 23"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '27 "  N , 16 ° 5' 23"  E
Einhornhöhle (Austria) (Lower Austria)
Einhornhöhle (Austria)
Cadastral number: 1863/5
Geology: Wall lime (Triassic)
Discovery: 1927
Show cave since: 1930
Lighting: Photovoltaic system
Overall length: 60 m
Level difference: 5 m (+2 m, −3 m)
Length of the show
cave area: 		60 m
Website: www.einhornhoehle.at

The Einhornhöhle (also Hirnflitzsteinhöhle and Oakirnlucke ) is located in the Hohe Wand Nature Park near Dreistetten in Lower Austria and can be reached via marked hiking trails in about 20 minutes from Dreistetten (signs, see illustration). The cave was opened in 1927 by Otto Langer sen. discovered and opened as a show cave in 1930. During the Second World War , the cave served as a refuge. In 1958 it was accessible again as a show cave. In 1964 Otto Langer jun. modernized. Guided tours lasting around 20 minutes are offered on Sundays and public holidays from Easter to the end of September. Today the cave is protected as a natural monument.

The guided tour leads you first into the cave via an artificially constructed tunnel. The natural entrance is above today's entrance, visible from today's path. A hut was built in front of the artificial tunnel through which you can get to the tunnel entrance. In the cave you first drive down a side passage and then you follow the main passage to the first narrow point. In the hall in front of this bottleneck are the largest stalactites that can be viewed during the tour (about one meter high stalagmites , see illustration). From the branching of the two corridors to this hall one drives down a corridor in which one can see a sinter curtain and some stalactites on the ceilings, in a side niche with a statue of Barbara also pearl sinter.

Many animal bones from the Pleistocene (mainly cave bears ) were discovered in the cave, some exhibits are exhibited in the cave or can be seen in the rock layers (for example individual teeth or bones). There are also finds from the Bronze and Hallstatt Ages .

  • On the way to the cave (September 2007)

  • Stalactites (September 2007)

  • Stalagmites in the dwarf kingdom (September 2007)

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. 55-57.
  • Max H. Fink, Helga and Wilhelm Hartmann: The caves of Lower Austria . Ed .: Regional Association for Speleology in Vienna and Lower Austria. tape 1 . Vienna 1979, p. 156–157 (with map).

Web links

Commons : Unicorn Cave  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Bouchal, Josef Wirth: Höhlenführer Österreich - Over 100 caves with sketches, plans, access descriptions and 150 photos , p. 55