Sheephole

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The Schafloch is a cave near Sigriswil in the canton of Bern .

The approximately 800 m long walkable, publicly accessible tunnel crosses under the Sigriswilgrat at the Sigriswiler Rothorn. It can be reached both from the south-east from the Justistal and from the Zettenalp on the north-western side of the ridge.

The sheep hole was visited on September 5, 1822 by the later General Guillaume-Henri Dufour , who published a report about it. In 1884 the cave was measured by engineers from Bern, and during World War II it was expanded by the Swiss Army to become a Schafloch lock-up point .

literature

  • Paul Am Acher: The sheep hole in the Justistal. Yearbook from Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, 1994, pp. 46-106.
  • Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de géographie (editors): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 4: Plessur - Switzerland . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1906, p. 550, keyword Schafloch   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
  • Hans Körber: The sheep hole. Measured by A. Wyttenbach and Ph. Gosset , described by H. Körber (Section Bern). In: Jahrbuch SAC, 20, 1885, pp. 316–343.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guillaume-Henri Dufour: Notice sur la caverne et glacière naturelle du Rothorn, dite le Schafloch, ou trou des brebis. In: Bibliothèque universelle des sciences, belles-lettres, et arts, 21, 1822, pp. 113–118.
  2. ↑ Fortress Oberland: Schafloch lock-up point

Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '47.7 "  N , 7 ° 46' 18.3"  E ; CH1903:  625464  /  175 466