Cave with no name
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 Entrance to the cave without a name |
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| Location: | Steinamwasser, Franconian Alb , Germany | |
| Height : | 433 m above sea level NN | |
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Geographic location: |
49 ° 43 '39.6 " N , 11 ° 36' 13.7" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | A 56 | |
| Geology: | dolomite | |
| Type: | Horizontal cave | |
| Show cave since: | No | |
| Lighting: | No | |
| Overall length: | 530 meters | |
The cave without a name is a natural karst cave in Steinamwasser , a district of the town of Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach .
location
The cave is located directly in Steinamwasser on the eastern slope of the natural monument Zwillingsfels Dolomit . The entrance is on the private property of a nearby innkeeper.
description
The cave is a cleft-bound horizontal cave with a total length of over 500 meters. It is one of the largest, most interesting and most visited karst caves in the Franconian Alb . In the cave cadastre Fränkische Alb (HFA) it is listed with the cadastral number A 56 (THF 6435-1007) and is designated by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment as geotope 371H007 and natural monument . See also the list of geotopes in the Amberg-Sulzbach district .
history
The cave has been known for centuries. It has kept its name cave without a name to this day. However, there were attempts to rename it after the cave explorer Richard Spöcker .
It is said to have been mentioned for the first time in 1844. M. Dütsch from Tüchersfeld carried out excavations there from 1859 and made finds from prehistory and early history. However, it is doubtful whether the relics were real or were fakes. In 1879, the researcher Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel found diluvial fauna ( mammoth , red deer , wild horse , cave bear ), which would fit these prehistoric and early historical finds. However, nothing is known about their whereabouts. An extensive investigation of the cave was undertaken in 1931 by the local history research department of the Natural History Society of Nuremberg by Spöcker , Kniewasser, Schiffert and Kellermann. Some corridors were rediscovered. The first cave plans date from this time. In 1976/77, the Preu, Dreier and Lippert cave was completely surveyed for the first time by the Research Group Cave and Karst Franconia (FHKF), and the research has been concluded since then.
The property is a widely ramified cave system and has, in some cases, unusually spacious corridors and halls (up to 12 meters high and 8 meters wide). There are also numerous bottlenecks, deep crevices and fracture zones. The cave contains stalactites, richly sintered chambers, water basins, crevices, pressure pipes, wall carts, pits and flow facets. It is good to explore how the cave in the Franconian dolomite or in the Malm once developed. The cave is known for having a relatively large amount of water and moisture. It is occasionally flooded during floods. The individual parts of the cave are called Flemmbachhalle, Julius-Rühm Klamm, Fridasee, Weisse and Wasser Spaltem, Karfreitagskluft and Spöckerhalle.
In 2004, the first large-scale exercise for German cave rescuers took place there.
Todays use
In addition to recreational speleology , the cave is used for various cultural events. The host stores his drinks in the front part.
Access
The cave can be entered all year round with the permission of the landlord "To the fresh source". The front area is almost safe to drive. For the other parts, cave experience and appropriate equipment are required.
literature
- Stephan Lang: Höhlen in Franken - A hiking guide into the underworld of Hersbrucker Switzerland and the Upper Palatinate Jura . Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 3-418-00390-7 , pp. 36-38
- Fritz Huber: The northern Franconian Alb, Volume 2, The caves of the karst area A Königstein
Web links
- Cave without a name, website at fhkf.de (accessed on January 16, 2020)
- at via-ferrata.de, with link: Cave plan (accessed on January 16, 2020)
- 68 Climbers (Accessed July 19, 2013)
- Caveseekers (Retrieved July 19, 2013)
- Lochstein (Retrieved July 19, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ^ Research group Höhle und Karst Franken eV (accessed on July 19, 2013)
- ↑ Geotope: Cave A56 in Steinamwasser (accessed on August 22, 2013; PDF; 180 kB)
- ↑ Cave plan cave without a name (accessed on July 19, 2013; PDF; 319 kB)
- ↑ Bergwacht, first large-scale exercise of German cave rescues (accessed on July 22, 2013)
- ↑ Cave Christmas ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (Accessed May 28, 2016)
