Scheffau glacier pot

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The glacier pot near Scheffau / Scheidegg
View into the glacier pot
Current position in the glacier ice 20,000 years ago. Adelegg and Nagelfluhkette (yellow) from the Molasse period are largely ice-free.
Formation of the glacier pot by water eddies with sand and gravel parts under high pressure

The Scheffau glacier pot is a relic from the Würme Ice Age near the district of Scheffau in the Bavarian district of Lindau (Lake Constance) in Germany, which belongs to the Scheidegg municipality .

Location and origin

The glacier pot is located east of the 2001 state road between Scheffau and Weiler im Allgäu just before the hamlet of Neuhaus at an altitude of around 579  m above sea level. NN .

It was created around 20,000 years ago when meltwater plunged from a great height into a hole in the rock and the resulting water vortex set a stone in motion, which was ground into the rock for centuries. This “Mahler” has not been preserved in Scheffau, as it was probably cleared from the glacier pot together with other rock.

The development is explained on an information board on site. Another explanation of a glacier pot is based on high water pressure on the underside of the glacier, which allows water to flow at high speed and mills the cavity in eddies of sand and rock. It will not have formed 20,000 years ago either, but rather when the ice continued to melt over a longer period of time.

discovery

The Scheffau glacier pot was discovered in the winter of 1896/1897 during blasting work for the extraction of natural stones for the construction of the dairy in Scheffau under the direction of Bartholomäus Förster and the participation of the later Scheffau mayor Alois Brinz and the farmer Lindebar, and by a border guard and the notary Hauch Weiler recognized as a geological rarity, whereupon the Lindau district office initially forbade further blasting and later only allowed it at a sufficient distance. The cracks that the glacier pot shows show that the blasting had already come dangerously close to it at that time.

Trivia

Due to its location on the road from Weiler to Bregenz, the glacier pot once lent its name to a stop on the Weiler-Bregenz postal service and today to a stop and the so-called "glacier pot line".

Web links

Commons : Gletschertopf Scheffau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Height information on the marker by the information board
  2. ↑ Information board "on site", on the road from Scheffau to Weiler
  3. ↑ The glacier pot near Scheffau
  4. ↑ Alois Brinz: History of the discovery of the glacier pot. In: Westallgäuer Heimatblätter.
  5. ↑ The glacier top line at the Bodensee-Oberschwaben transport association. Accessed August 31, 2019 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 32 ′ 41.9 ″  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 30.9 ″  E