Erdmannshöhle
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| Location: | Dinkelberg , Germany | |
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Geographic location: |
47 ° 38 '57 " N , 7 ° 53' 45.3" E | |
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| Type: | Stalactite cave | |
| Discovery: | 1271 (first mentioned) | |
| Show cave since: | 1773 | |
| Lighting: | electric (since 1899) | |
| Overall length: | 2315 meters | |
| Length of the show cave area: |
356 meters | |
| Average annual number of visitors: | 27,700 (2006-2010) | |
| Current visitors: | 24,163 (2010) | |
| Website: | Cave side of the community | |
The Erdmannshöhle (also called Hasler Höhle ) is a stalactite cave in the Dinkelberg mountain range at the transition to the southern Black Forest . It is located in the north-eastern outskirts of the Dinkelberg (Hasler Karst ) at the southern exit of Hasel , Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ).
description
The beginning of the formation of the stalactites in the Erdmannshöhle is dated by speleologists to the end of the Riss Ice Age about 125,000 years ago.
The total length of the cave passages measured so far is over 2350 meters, which belong to a complex cave system with a north-south extension of approx. 370 meters, an east-west extension of approx. 126 meters and a height difference of 24 meters. 356 meters of this can be viewed.
Many very old and very large stalactites are present in the cave. One of them was long considered Germany's oldest and largest, but larger ones have since been discovered in other caves. With an age of several hundred thousand years ( radiocarbon dating ; previously estimated to be over a million years), it has grown to over four meters high and two meters thick.
The name of the cave comes from a legend according to which meerkats ( dwarfs ) used to live in the cave.
The first written mention in a district description ( Erdmännleins Grub ) is dated to the middle of the 1750s.
Nearby are the Tschamberhöhle near Rheinfelden (Baden) and the Eichener See near Eichen (Schopfheim) , to which there is also an underground connection.
Reception in visual arts and literature
The poet Joseph Victor von Scheffel added Jung Werner in the Erdmannshöhle as the tenth piece in his work Der Trompeter von Säckingen . It contains the following part of the cave description:
Slender, sinuous columns sank
from the ceiling to the floor,
On the ceilings there is a colorful play of
shapes of the gray stalactite,
ghostly stone weave, Sometimes
like tears that the rock weeps,
sometimes like richly entwined ornamentation of
huge coral branches.
See also
literature
18th and 19th centuries
- Heinrich Sander : Description of a stalactite cave in the Landgraviate of Sausenberg. In: Georg Friedrich Götz (Ed.): Heinrich Sanders Small Writings. Volume 1, Dessau and Leipzig 1784, pp. 298–311 ( Google digitized version ) or at Bielefeld University In: Der Naturforscher. 18th piece, pp. 167–181 ( digitized version of the Bielefeld University Library )
- Carl August Lembke: The Erdmanns-Höhle near Hasel in the Landgraviate of Sausenberg belonging to the Electorate of Baden. Schoell et Comp, 1803.
- Johann Jakob Schneider : Hasel with the Erdmannshöhle and the Eichener See. In: The Badische Oberland. Lörrach 1841, pp. 120–129 ( digitized from HathiTrust ).
- Rheinhard Reitzel: The Erdmannshöhle . In: Badisches Sagenbuch. Karlsruhe 1846, Volume 1, pp. 224-235
- August Schnezler: The Erdmannshöhle near Hasel . In: Badisches Sagenbuch. Karlsruhe 1846, Volume 1, pp. 221-224.
- Samuel Pletscher: The Erdmannshöhle near Hasel in the southwestern Black Forest. In: From the Jura to the Black Forest. First volume, 1884, pp. 224-236 ( digitized version - Internet Archive ).
20th and 21st centuries
- Ernst Schneider: On the naming of the Erdmannshöhle near Hasel (Lörrach). In: The Markgräflerland. Issue 3/4 1977, pp. 316-330 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Helmut Bender: Legends about the Hasel earth people. In: The Markgräflerland. Issue 1/1984, pp. 164–169 ( digital copy from Freiburg University Library ).
- Ulrich Siegener: The Erdmanns Höhle bei Hasel - A contribution to speleology (caving) of the Hasler Karst. In: The Markgräflerland. 550 years of Markgräflerland. - Anniversary volume 1994, pp. 345–372 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Clemens Wittwer: The history of the Erdmannshöhle. In: The Markgräflerland. Volume 2/2005, pp. 10-20 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Ludger Syré: Heinrich Sander's visit and description of the Hasler Erdmannshöhle in 1781. In: Das Markgräflerland. Volume 2/2012, pp. 114-124.
Web links
- The Erdmannshöhle near Hasel (PDF; 971 kB)
- Erdmannshöhle . showcaves.com
- Erdmannshöhle near Hasel . Mineral atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Siegener, p. 350
- ↑ Siegener, p. 352
- ^ Siegener, p. 353
- ↑ Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Johannes Franke (ed.): Joseph Victor von Scheffels all works. Volume 1, pp. 99–110 Digital copy from Freiburg University Library