Meerkat's hole
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| Location: | Wuppertal | |
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Geographic location: |
51 ° 18 '0 " N , 7 ° 15' 36" E | |
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| Type: | Karst cave | |
| Discovery: | 1999 | |
| Overall length: | 60 m | |
The Erdmännkes Kuhle (also spelled Erdmännkeskuhle ) is a 60 m long cave in the Wuppertal city area.
Location and description
The total passage length (GGL) of the cave is 60 m. It is located in the east of Wuppertal in the Linderhauser Senke near the city limits of Schwelm . It belongs to the Möddinghofe cave area , east of the Meine Brook . In the breakthrough valley of the karst water - the mine - which occasionally falls dry, there are some rapid streams and rock outcrops as well as stream shrinkages . Other cave entrances in the vicinity are named as the Himmelfahrt-Ponorhöhle and the Meinebach-Ponorhöhle .
history
The name Erdmännkes goes back to dwarfs .
The Erdmännkes Kuhle was discovered in 1999. The working group Kluterthöhle e. V. (AKKH) explored the cave more closely in 2000, exposed the entrance and penetrated the cave and recorded its size. A number of finds were made, including shards from the 18th century - the ancestors from Next Breck use the cave as a kind of rubbish dump. Bones of a human and a wolf were also found, the bones were estimated to be 800 years old. Also stalactites were observed.
After the AKKH had uncovered the area, four “cave robbers” from Wuppertal, Ennepetal and Schwelm entered the hollow without authorization and very carelessly. They took out damaged stalactites and knocked off others. They were exposed and had to answer for theft before the Wuppertal district court . The defendants confessed. The court sentenced the quartet, some of whom had a criminal record, to suspended sentences of between ten and 21 months.
Protection status
The Möddinghofe cave area is designated as a natural monument in the Wuppertal-Nord landscape plan under 2.6.17 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Development of the Düsseldorf Regional Plan (RPD)
- ↑ a b c Arbeitskreis Kluterthöhle eV (AKKH) - Current Research - 2000. (No longer available online.) In: akkh.de. Archived from the original on June 30, 2007 ; accessed on January 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Lutz Koch : Geological excursion through the Linderhauser Kalkgebiet. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Probation: cave robbers showed remorse. In: Remscheider General-Anzeiger . December 26, 2014, accessed January 17, 2017 .
- ↑ tojamoura: Wuppertal as it is 1/3: Underground. In: wordpress.com. January 4, 2015, accessed January 17, 2017 .
- ^ Landscape plan Wuppertal North
Remarks
- ↑ In a press article in connection with the cave robbers 700 m and 50 m depth were quoted. This information is probably a confusion with the Ascension Ponor cave.