Schrattenhöhle

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The Schrattenhöhle is a karst cave on Melchsee-Frutt in the municipality of Kerns in the canton of Obwalden . The cave system has a total length of 19,725 meters, making it the sixth longest cave in Switzerland . The system covers an altitude difference of 573 meters. It was researched by the Höhlenforscher-Gemeinschaft Trüssel (HGT) and, since 2003, by the successor organization Höhlenforscher-Gemeinschaft Unterwalden (HGU) and the Karst and Caves Obwalden Foundation (NeKO).

location

The Schrattenhöhle is located in the Karst area of ​​Melchsee-Frutt. This is 15 km² and lies in an altitude range between 1100  m above sea level. M. and 2700  m above sea level. M. The cave system has eight entrances, two of which are in a pressure pipe tunnel. These are located between 1715  m above sea level. M. and 2090  m above sea level. M. In addition, there are a variety of cave greenhouse days openings that are too tight, however, to be committed.

Together with the neighboring caves Bettenhöhle , Neotektonikhöhle, Chrummegghöhle, Arviloch, Frutthöhle and about 130 other caves, this results in a cave area with a total of 59 kilometers, which is the third largest cave area in Switzerland .

literature

  • Martin Trüssel: From the fox hole to the Schrattenhöhle. Volume 1 and Volume 2, HGT-Verlag, Alpnach 1999, ISBN 3-9521621-0-8 .
  • Martin Trüssel: From the fox hole to the Schrattenhöhle. Volume 3, HGT-Verlag, Alpnach 2003, ISBN 3-9521621-3-2 .
  • Martin Trüssel: From the fox hole to the Schrattenhöhle. Volume 4 and Volume 5, HGT-Verlag, Alpnach 2013, ISBN 978-3-9521621-6-3 .
  • Martin Trüssel: 10 years of Schrattenhöhle research. Research history of the longest cave in Obwalden and the fifth longest cave in Switzerland from 1984 to 1994. HGT-Verlag, Alpnach, OCLC 428004984 .
  • Martin Trüssel: Karst and caves of the Melchsee-Frutt. In: Kurt Zumbrunn (Ed.): Melchsee-Frutt in the course of time. Grischa, Thusis 2015, ISBN 978-3-906120-21-8 , pp. 31-46.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the Unterwalden Cave Research Association (HGU)
  2. ↑ Significance of karst and caves ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Information page of the foundation «Natural Heritage Karst and Caves Obwalden» (NeKO) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neko.ch

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