Emst cave

Emst cave
Location:	Iserlohn - Greens
Height :	197  m above sea level NHN
Geographic location:	51 ° 22 '5 "  N , 7 ° 39' 52"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '5 "  N , 7 ° 39' 52"  E
Discovery:	between 1860 and 1863
Particularities:	Connection to the bunker cave

The Emsthöhle is a stalactite cave in the valley of the Grüner Bach in Iserlohn - Grüner on the northern edge of the Rhenish Slate Mountains . It is located in the mass limestone of the upper Middle Devon and belongs to the Bunker-Emst cave system.

The cave was discovered during railway construction work between 1860 and 1863. Its entrance is on the southern slope of the Dröscheder Emst at 197 m above sea ​​level . 1992 was the Speläogruppe Letmathe connect to 1926 discovered bunker cave are created which was closed again the following year.

See also: List of caves in the Sauerland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dissertation Actuospelaeological Investigations in the Bunker Cave of the Iserlohner Massenkalks (North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany): Significance for continental climate archives by Dana Felicitas Christine Riechelmann, pp. 7–9, 19 . Retrieved April 25, 2018.
2. ↑ Speläogruppe Letmathe: Bunker-Ernst system. In: Internet Archive. November 9, 2012, accessed April 25, 2018 .