Hrustovačka cave

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The Hrustovačka Cave (Bosn. Hrustovačka Pećina ) is located in a small village called Hrustovo about four kilometers west of Vrhpolje in the municipality of Sanski Most in the northwestern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The cave is characterized by numerous stalagmites and stalactites that are thousands of years old . The stalactite cave is largely undeveloped for tourism .

Geographical information

So far there has only been speculation about the exact extent of the karst cave . What is certain is that the cave is divided into at least two main arms, which unite about 500 meters before the well-known entrance to the cave. While the first approx. 800 meters of the right arm of the cave can be visited without any problems and well explored without professional cave equipment, numerous legends entwine around the left arm of the cave, which is characterized by branching system of passages and can only be explored with professional equipment. Expeditions have so far been able to discover two lakes in the cave. The first lake can be reached after about 2.5 hours, whereby the deepest point of the path should be about 150 meters below the surface of the earth. The second lake can be reached after about 3–4 hours and has been the end of most cave expeditions so far. However, a continuous flow of air can be measured in the cave and can be felt in narrow cave passages even without measuring devices. One end of the cave and other entrances are not yet known, but the continuous flow of air is proof that there must be further entrances.

history

During the numerous wars in the Balkans, the cave served as a place of refuge for the inhabitants of the villages in the vicinity. During the Second World War , the Yugoslav partisans found a retreat in the Hrustovačka cave. There is a legend that at the time of the First World War two farmers fled from their enemies into the cave and made their way to a second exit near the town of Jajce , which is still unknown today , about 55 kilometers as the crow flies from the famous cave entrance lies. A few hundred meters in the left arm of the cave is still the camp where men from Hrustovo hid from their persecutors during the Bosnian War in the 1990s. The fact that the Hrustovacka cave was used as a place of retreat and hiding place for belongings during numerous wars is also explained by numerous finds of valuables and weapons in the cave. Ceramic finds also indicate that the cave was inhabited centuries ago.

Trivia

The cave was part of the TV show Joko versus Klaas - The Duel for the World . In the fourth episode of the show, Klaas was supposed to find one of the lakes and fill a bottle of water there. He couldn't find the lake.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The duel around the world - Team Joko against Team Klaas - Klaas in Bosnia: Extreme cave explorers. November 30, 2013, accessed March 3, 2020 .

Coordinates: 44 ° 40 ′ 20 ″  N , 16 ° 41 ′ 56 ″  E