Great castle cave
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 Entrance to the Great Castle Cave |
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| Location: | Sauerland , Germany | |
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Geographic location: |
51 ° 22 '52 " N , 7 ° 51' 9" E | |
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| Geology: | Rhenish Slate Mountains | |
| Type: | Culture cave | |
| Overall length: | 19 meters | |
The Great Castle Cave is a column cave in the Brockhausen district of Hemer . It is located in the Klusenstein rock massif below Klusenstein Castle at a height of 16 meters above the valley floor and runs horizontally. The cave is owned by the Rheinisch-Westfälische Kalkwerke , which operate quarries in the Hönnetal .
Several entrances and exits, which can only be reached by climbing, lead into a room from which several dead branches lead in different directions. Presumably there is a connection to the Kleiner Burghöhle . The Great Castle Cave is 19 meters long.
A cave entrance, which is located above the railroad tracks of the Hönnetalbahn , is a crevice 7 meters high and 1.50 meters wide. The cave has washed out and scorched chimneys. One of the chimneys ends in a cellar of the castle. The passage to the basement room was bricked up at the time.
The Great Castle Cave is also a cultural cave and a place of discovery, including a bronze sculpture (water bird) from the older Iron Age .
See also: List of caves in the Sauerland
literature
- Wilhelm Bleicher : The Great Castle Cave in the Hönnetal (14th contribution to regional studies of the Hönnetal), publisher: Association of Friends and Patrons of the Menden Municipal Museum, Menden 1981 [1]
- Heinrich Streich: Underground magic realms of the Sauerland. 1967, p. 66
