Eiskogel cave

Eiskogel cave / Eduard Richter ice cave
Location:	Werfenweng Tennengebirge , ( Salzburg )
Height :	2110 m above sea level A.
Geographic ; location:	47 ° 29 '42 " N , 13 ° 17' 22" E Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '42 " N , 13 ° 17' 22" E
Cadastral number:	1511/101
Geology:	Dachstein Limestone
Type:	High alpine through cave with ice parts and stalactites
Discovery:	1877
Show cave since:	1949
Lighting:	Carbide lamp
Overall length:	approx. 4600 m
Level difference:	420 m

The Eiskogel Cave - its other entrances are called Eduard Richter Ice Caves - is located in the Eiskogel in the Tennengebirge near Werfenweng , State of Salzburg,

Research history

Eduard Richter discovered the cave in 1877 while climbing the Eiskogel south face, the two entrances there are now called the Western and Eastern Eduard Richter Ice Caves . Members of the Salzburg Cave Association explored the western part of the cave for the first time in 1924. As a result, however, further attempts to reach the cave failed. After Gustave Abel had discovered the Osteinstieg to the cave (Eiskogel cave) near the Tauernscharte after going it alone in 1942 , research and measurement of all important cave parts followed in the same year.

The Eiskogel-Richter-Höhle system is partially overlaid by the nearby Eiskogel-Tropfsteinhöhle (HK 1511/160), but a connection between the two has not yet been proven.

The cave was placed under monument protection as early as 1947, and today it is a specially protected cave under the Salzburg Nature Conservation Act. The State Association for Speleology in Salzburg leased it from the Federal Forests in 1949, after which the first touristic tours began. Today it can only be visited with a guide and can be reached in two hours from the Dr.-Heinrich-Hackel-Hütte .

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. 142-146.

Web links

Eiskogel cave. State Association for Speleology in Salzburg, accessed on November 30, 2014 .
www.lochstein.de

Individual evidence

^ Hubert Trimmel : Cave protection in Austria in 1974 . From the work of the Federal Monuments Office . In: The cave . tape 26 , section Eiskogel-Tropfsteinhöhle in the Tennengebirge (Salzburg) , p. 17 ( PDF on ZOBODAT , there p. 6 - full article 13-21).
↑ The cave protection in Austria was originally under the Federal Monuments Office , therefore caves were initially placed under monument protection and only later became part of nature conservation law and state sovereignty.

[1] Hubert Trimmel : Cave protection in Austria in 1974 . From the work of the Federal Monuments Office . In: The cave . tape 26 , section Eiskogel-Tropfsteinhöhle in the Tennengebirge (Salzburg) , p. 17 ( PDF on ZOBODAT , there p. 6 - full article 13-21).

[2] The cave protection in Austria was originally under the Federal Monuments Office , therefore caves were initially placed under monument protection and only later became part of nature conservation law and state sovereignty.