Moon milk cave
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 Entrance to the moon milk cave with grate and passage |
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| Location: | Swabian Alb , Baden-Wuerttemberg | |
| Height : | 687 m above sea level NN | |
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Geographic location: |
48 ° 31 '17.8 " N , 9 ° 31' 14.8" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | 7423/13 | |
| Type: | Natural cave | |
| Lighting: | No | |
| Overall length: | about 112 m | |
| Level difference: | about 6 m | |
The Mondmilchhöhle near Lenningen , Gutenberg district in Baden-Württemberg, is an approximately 112 meter long natural karst cave in the White Jura of the Swabian Alb . It is located below the Sperberseck castle ruins . In 1900 prehistoric shards were dug up in the cave by E. Schütze.
description
The first cave room is about 15 meters long, three to nine meters high and two to four meters wide. The ground is covered with clay , on the walls there are only small deposits of moon milk . At the far right end of the first room, a low crawl (silt) leads to the second, smaller cave room. The crawl space is filled with a thick, wet layer of clay several centimeters. The remarkable wall coverings made of moon milk can only be found after another several meter long tunnel in the third chamber.
Directions
From Stuttgart towards Teck and on to Lenningen, Gutenberg district. Before Gutenberg, a hiking trail leads through the Donntal up to the Sperberseck castle ruins. The cave is located on a steep section of slope about 50-100 meters below the Sperberseck castle ruins in the direction of Gutenberg.
natural reserve
The cave is open from May to November, after which the entrance gate is closed to protect the bats that live there . The cave is completely natural, so there are neither climbing aids nor lighting equipment.
The moon milk cave is protected as a geotope under the number 13587/883 .
Name of the cave
Inside the cave as well as in the Donn stream below, there are large-scale coatings of flowing, whitish deposits, the so-called moon milk (Latin lac lunae , chemical calcite ), which in their appearance are reminiscent of flowing milk. Due to the sensitivity of the calcite crystals, they should never be touched.
gallery
Entrance hall of the moon milk cave
Wall sintering in the third hall
Silt stretch in the moon milk cave
literature
- Hans Binder , Herbert Jantschke: Cave guide Swabian Alb. Caves - springs - waterfalls . 7th completely revised edition. DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2003, ISBN 3-87181-485-7 , p. 123-124 .
- Hans Joachim Haupt: Discover with children - wild caves in the Swabian Alb. Fleischhauer & Spohn, Bietigheim-Bissingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-87230-576-3 , pp. 73 ff.
