Hohlur
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 Cave portal |
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| Location: | east of the Waxeneck , Lower Austria | |
| Height : | 610 m above sea level A. | |
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Geographic location: |
47 ° 56 '1 " N , 16 ° 2' 24" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | 1869/6 | |
| Geology: | Main dolomite | |
| Show cave since: | In the 1930s the cave was used as a show cave | |
| Overall length: | 111 m | |
| Level difference: | 25 m (+8 m, −17 m) | |
| Particularities: | Detection of monohydrocalcite | |
The Hohlur (or Hallourhöhle ) is a cave in the main dolomite of the Gutenstein Alps in the area of the municipality of Hernstein in Lower Austria . The cave on the eastern slope of the Waxeneck above the Geyergraben is one of the largest caves in the Mandling- Waxeneck area with the cave tower cave and the Steinklopfer cave . It can be reached in about an hour from Steinhof .
Through the 5 meter wide and 7 meter high portal you enter a flat, 20 meter long room, from the end of which you can ascend to the right over sintered steps to a short continuation. In the middle of the entrance room a horizontal corridor branches off to the right, which leads 10 m to the north, then turns to the east and ends due to an artificial closure of another day opening. From the southern boundary of the entrance hall, through two openings (the western one has been artificially exposed, but is now closed again by earth; the upper part of an old iron ladder is located in the eastern one), the main continuation, a steeply sloping corridor with changing dimensions, the ends in a small hall. The cave had in the form of gap fillings beautiful calcite crystals , which however - as the stalactites and stalagmites of the cave - are destroyed for the most part. The rare, because unstable, monohydrocalcite could be detected here.
In 1928, Neolithic finds were made in the cave, which were assigned to the linear ceramic culture , as well as historical finds from the Middle Ages.
On Pentecost Sunday in 1928, the newly opened cave in the Holur near Berndorf was opened to the public, in connection with the declared intention of the local group of the Association of Friends of Nature in Grillenberg to expand the cave further. The cave was expanded for guided tours in the 1930s; the facilities and the hut in front of the cave at that time have already fallen into disrepair.
The Hallour cave is designated as a natural monument.
literature
- Helga and Wilhelm Hartmann, Max H.Fink: Die Höhlen Niederösterreichs , Volumes 2, 4, 5.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austrian Atlas. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 25, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Helene Schießl, Erwin Schindler: Berndorfer Gemeindechronik, published on the occasion of 100 years of the city of Berndorf . Ed .: Stadtgemeinde Berndorf, p. 58
- ↑ Environment. Berndorf. (Development of the Holurhöhle.) In: Badener Zeitung , June 2, 1928, p. 5, bottom left anno.onb.ac.at
