Kolowrats Cave
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 Anton Sattler: Kolowrats Cave on the Untersberg (1865) |
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| Location: | State of Salzburg , Austria | |
| Height : | 1391 m above sea level A. | |
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Geographic location: |
47 ° 43 '40.5 " N , 13 ° 0' 30.9" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | 1339/1 | |
| Overall length: | 38,000 m | |
| Level difference: | -1,100 m | |
The Kolowratshöhle (also Kolowrathöhle ) is a cave in the Untersberg in the Berchtesgaden Alps in the area of the municipality of Grödig . It was named after Count Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky .
description
The ice cave was explored as early as the 19th century . The ice surface in the entrance hall on the north side of the Untersberg massif was even used for ice skating, but has melted further and further after the cave entrance was enlarged.
- Eberhard Fugger observed the melting of ice cones over the summer of 1876
State on May 21, 1876 (ice cones formed from dripping water over the winter)
State of the same place on October 22, 1876 (melting of the ice cone over the summer months)
The connection with the Gamslöchern has been known since 1979 ( Gamslöcher-Kolowrat cave system ), and since 2004 with the Salzburgerschacht ( Gamslöcher-Kolowrat-Salzburgerschacht system ). The cave system has so far been explored over a total length of 38 kilometers to a depth of more than 1100 meters. It is assumed that the Kolowratshöhle, together with the giant thing shaft cave and the wind holes, form a cave system that is at least 70 kilometers long and runs through the entire mountain, but the connecting caves are mostly under water. The drainage probably takes place via the Fürstenbrunn spring cave .
Trivia
Gustav Freiherr von Lerchenfeld , Bavarian politician and former President of the Chamber of Deputies, died in 1866 as a result of a fall in the cave.
literature
- Gerhard Zehentner: The Gamslöcher-Kolowrat cave system (1339/1) on the Salzburg Untersberg, research results 2006–2010 . In: The cave . tape 61 , 2010, p. 102-108 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed on August 14, 2014]).
- Gerhard Zehentner, Georg Zagler, Walter Klappacher: The Gamslöcher-Kolowrat-Salzburgerschacht system (1339/1) . In: The cave . tape 57 , 2006, p. 90-102 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed on August 14, 2014]).
- Ulrich Meyer: In search of the Barbarossa system in the Untersberg . In: Files of the 13th National Speleological Congress, 2012 - Actes du 13e Congrès national de Spéléologie . Muotathal 2012, p. 68–74 ( agsr.ch [PDF; 462 kB ; accessed on August 14, 2014]).
- Robert Bouchal, Josef Wirth: Cave Guide Austria - Over 100 caves with sketches, plans, access descriptions and 150 photos . Pichler Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85431-234-2 , pp. 165-168.
- Eberhard Fugger : Observations in the ice caves of the Untersberg near Salzburg . In: Communications from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg . tape 28 . Salzburg 1888, p. 65-164 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Gamslöcher-Kolowrath system on the Untersberg . History, drawings, photos
- Kolowratshöhle in the Salzburgwiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav Frhr. v. Lerchenfeld . In: Supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 308 , November 4, 1866, pp. 5061 ( digitized version ).