Big Koller cave
| Big Koller cave
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 Entrance area of the Great Koller Cave (February 2011) |
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| Location: | Winzendorf-Muthmannsdorf ( Lower Austria ) | |
| Height : | 465 m above sea level A. | |
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Geographic location: |
47 ° 49 '15.6 " N , 16 ° 6' 10.8" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | 1864/14 | |
| Geology: | Hallstatt Lime | |
| Type: | Stalactite cave | |
| Overall length: | 140 m | |
| Level difference: | 21 m (+5 m, −16 m) | |
The Große Kollerhöhle , also called Elfersteinhöhle , is a cave on the western slope of the Emmerberg near Winzendorf ( Wiener Neustadt-Land district , Lower Austria ). It was declared a natural monument on December 24, 1970 and a "specially protected cave" on October 22, 1982.
description
Immediately after the entrance, a 4 meter deep demolition leads into a hall up to 12 meters high. Another chamber is reached via a three-meter-high cliff edge, from which the extremely narrow, vertically descending “Despair Pipe” leads to the end section with stalactites . The total length of the corridor is 140 meters with a height difference of 21 meters.
In 1981 a close navigable connection to the five-meter-long Kleiner Koller Cave (1864/15) located a few meters to the north was discovered.
See also
literature
- Max H. Fink, Helga Hartmann, Wilhelm Hartmann: The caves of Lower Austria . Ed .: Regional Association for Speleology in Vienna and Lower Austria. tape 1 : Southeastern Lower Austria and peripheral areas. Vienna 1979, p. 199–200 (with map).
- Hubert Trimmel: The large Koller cave near Emmerberg (N. Ö.) - An example of the geological value of the cave sinter. Association of Austrian Speleologists, Vienna ( digitized version )