Cauldron grotto
The Kesselgrotte is a sandstone grotto created by weathering about two kilometers west of Welzheim in Baden-Württemberg in the lower area of the Vorderer Welzheimer Wald of the natural area Schurwald and Welzheimer Wald . A waterfall falls over them . It is one of many different grottos in the Welzheimer Forest , some of which have bizarre rock formations. It is one of the cove formations typical of the landscape of the upper parlor sandstone , which mark the upper beginning of numerous blades and were created due to sandstone banks of different hardness. In plan they are semicircular to horseshoe-shaped and represent grotto-like cavities of softer sandstone layers, which are mainly due to the effect of the water draining off the rock in connection with weathering phenomena. As here, the harder top layer is usually notched in the middle. (Height approx. 8 m, width approx. 10 m, depth approx. 7 m)
The small stream, which rises below the Lettenstich farmstead, falls shortly after the source over the eight meter high sandstone step and after a few hundred meters flows into the Wieslauf , one of the tributaries of the Rems, near the Laufenmühle . A narrow hiking path leads through the grotto, which is part of the geological educational trail of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park .
The cauldron grotto is protected both as an extensive natural monument and as a geotope.
See also
Web links
- Hiking map and description from the "WanderWalter"
- Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park
- Beautiful southwest
- Kesselgrotte on the website of the Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Energy
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swabian Franconian Forest Nature Park - Wanderwalter [1]
- ^ Geotope profile of the Kesselgrotte
Geographical information according to official topographic maps 1: 25,000 and 1: 50,000.
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '32.2 " N , 9 ° 35' 59.2" O