Hollenkammer
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 View of the Hollenkammer |
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Waldeck-Frankenberg district , Hesse , Germany |
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51 ° 22 '42 " N , 9 ° 6' 44" E | |
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| Type: | Sandstone rock cave | |
The Hollenkammer , also called Hollenhöhle , is a small cave and a natural monument south of the small town of Volkmarsen in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district , Hesse ( Germany ).
Geographical location
The Hollenkammer is located in northern Hesse around 1 km north of the southern Volkmarsen district of Lütersheim and on the eastern flank of the Watter valley. Your sandstone portal is located on the south flank of the 271 m above sea level. NN high Tentenberg .
About 1 km north of the Hollenkammer are the Huckershöhlen , about 3.5 km to the east is the northwest border of the Habichtswald Nature Park , which is largely in the Kassel district , not far to the north are the ruins of Fürstenstein Castle and about 3.5 km to the west is the Twistesee (distances in each case Beeline ).
geology
The Hollenkammer is a naturally formed cave in a white and red fissured sandstone in a pine forest north of Lütersheim on hiking trail 8, which starts at a sports field. The cave is located behind a remote sandstone portal. Mineralogically, the weathered and fissured blocks interspersed with huge parallel running iron blocks are oxidation states in the sandstone. Speleologically , the cave belongs to the semi- cave type .
history
The Hollenkammer was a place of worship . Her name goes back to the pagan Holba , the kind wife of Wotan . A nearby spring still reminds of their name . During the time of Christianization , a hermit lived in the Hollenkammer who is said to have helped Boniface to spread Christianity .
legend
General
The forecast for should Hollen (= elves have lived in the cave). The inhabitants of the area did not show these phantasies . You only noticed the elves through their good deeds or pranks on the people in the area. The Hell were helpful little house ghosts, but also prone to jokes.
Say of the servant and the hell
When a farmhand from Lütersheim was once working in a field near the Hollenkammer, he heard a knock. Then he thought, Hollen were baking cakes and shouted: "Holle, bake me a cake too!" The next time the plow turned , he came back to the same place and was amazed to see a cake lying on a cloth. At first he didn't want to accept it. Then a hell shouted: "If you don't take the cake, I'll scratch your eyes out!" So he took it.
Others
The Holler cave is the habitat of a bat colony.
Nowadays there is a bench at the sandstone portal of the cave.
See also
literature
- Eduard Brauns: Hiking and travel guide through North Hesse and Waldeck . A. Bernecker Verlag, Melsungen 1971, p. 78
- A. Hüneberg: Kassel latest news . 1926 (special page Heimatland)