War hole

Coordinates: 46 ° 33 '22.4 "  N , 7 ° 57' 57.3"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and forty thousand four hundred thirty-four  /  one hundred fifty-six thousand two hundred and thirty-eight The so-called war hole is a üblicherweiser black spot, a hole in the ice mantle of Giessen glacier on the northwest flank of the Jungfrau massif . Itcan be seenfrom Wengen .

Whenever the spot is covered with ice, legend has it that a major war breaks out somewhere in the world. This was so in the War of Spanish Succession , the French German War 1870 / 71 , 1914 and 1939 even earlier, however. The hole was also covered with ice during the Gulf War and the Six Day War .

In the case of the war hole, these are statements from the field of popular belief , at least as far as the future is concerned. The description of the past in this case is an observed fact. Popular belief here is the connection of observation with the terms war yes or war no .

literature

• Rudi Mayr: The war hole ; On the trail of a glacier myth; Publisher Panico Alpinverlag; ISBN 3-92680-781-4