Pommerlesloch
| Pommerlesloch
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 Entrance to the Pommerlesloch with a fence and cover |
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| Location: | Upper Gäu | |
| Height : | 534 m above sea level NN | |
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Geographic location: |
48 ° 32 '55 " N , 8 ° 47' 4" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | 7418/1 | |
| Type: | Shaft cave | |
| Overall length: | about 100 meters deep | |
The Pommerlesloch is a shaft cave and one of the most important caves in the Muschelkalkzone in the Upper Gäu east of the northern Black Forest . It is located in a wooded area between Mötzingen and Unterjettingen (approx. 50 km southwest of Stuttgart ) near the main mussel limestone / Lettenkeuper smear line in the Trigonodus dolomite (mo3).
According to local legend, the cave is said to have its unusual name from a dachshund named Pommerle who once fell into it.
Emergence
The many sinkholes (often also with ponor ) in the vicinity and the geological location of the cave suggest that the formation was influenced by mixed corrosion (the dissolution effect increased by the mixing of water with different lime content).
description
The shaft mouth is fenced in and covered with a sturdy metal grille to avoid endangering forest walkers. The entrance area is oval and has an area of approx. 2.5 × 3 m and then narrows to 1 × 1.5 m.
The shaft itself is subdivided by several paragraphs, with the first paragraph being reached after a few meters. A short horizontal bottleneck with a step leads to a room measuring several meters. In the rubble you come across the next shaft, which also has a bottleneck at the beginning, but which can be bypassed. This is also where dripping water occurs for the first time. The shaft ends with a short lead in a large hall at a total depth of approx. 80 meters. There are sinter formations and isolated dripstones in the hall . On the floor of the hall, vertical extensions lead to a total depth of approx. 100 meters.
Accidents
At least two people died in the Pommerlesloch: around 1910 a student from the Nagold teaching seminar fell into the cave and in the last days of the Second World War a man died under unexplained circumstances in the Pommerlesloch.
In 1965 there was an accident in which a hiker fell into the cave. After his cries for help were heard by children playing after three days, he was rescued alive from the first paragraph.
See also
Web links
- Brief description of the cave (PDF; 573 kB), list of geotopes in the Stuttgart administrative district, page 189
- Hans Mattenschlager: The Pommerlesloch, a shaft cave near Mötzingen. In: www.zeitreise-bb.de. Retrieved on February 10, 2012 (pictures and cave plan).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c forest: time travel bb - Mötzingen - Pommerlesloch. Retrieved August 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Max Wisshak, Matthias López Correa: Das Pommerlesloch (7418/1) - An important shaft cave in the Upper Muschelkalk near Mötzingen, Boeblingen district , published in July 1998 in Stuttgart, accessed on May 23, 2018