Schreiberhöhle
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| Location: | In the Doschental near Steinheim am Albuch , Heidenheim district , Baden-Württemberg , Germany | |
| Height : | 620 m above sea level NHN | |
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48 ° 42 '39.7 " N , 10 ° 2' 28.1" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | 7226/6 | |
| Geology: | White Jura ζ , banked limestone | |
| Type: | Layer joint cavity | |
| Discovery: | 1960 | |
| Lighting: | no | |
| Overall length: | 210 m | |
The Schreiberhöhle is a layer joint cave located around 2.5 km northwest of Steinheim am Albuch in Baden-Württemberg .
Geographical location
The cave is located under an abandoned quarry on the right slope of the Doschtal, an eastern side valley of the Wental . Its entrance is on the northwestern edge of the quarry at 620 m above sea level. NHN and is secured by a steel cage with access grids. The cave is only open from May 16 to July 31 for bat protection.
topography
The Schreiberhöhle is a cave that was created about 15 million years ago and is built on layer joints in the 30 cm thick banked limestone of the White Jura Zeta . It was discovered after two shafts broke in during blasting work. In May 1960 it was named after the Heidenheim cave researcher Walter Schreiber († 1960), who first measured the cave in collaboration with the Laichinger Höhlen- und Heimatverein. Further research, measurements and mapping took place in 1971/72, 1980 and from 1997. The length of the cave is given as 210 m, the difference in height is 17 m.
When descending into the Schreiberhöhle, behind the grille, you first come to a 2 m deep pit, which has a floor-to-ceiling access with a metal frame on the right side. Behind it, an approximately 2 m wide corridor opens into which you have to descend almost 4 m vertically. At the end of this short corridor, one arrives at an 8 x 3 m large and 2 m high room, which is littered with fallen rock (falls). In the eastern ceiling area there is a vertical shaft that is covered on the surface of the day. On the left and half-left, the falls and the bat exit branch off , at the right end of the room the main passage of the cave runs tangentially. If you follow the 40 m long main corridor to the left in a north-northwest direction, you come to the branch to the cul-de-sac and after 19 m you reach the western end point of the cave. In the opposite direction, the main corridor leads to the Great Fall , in whose rubble the skull and several bones of an aurochs could be recovered. It is therefore believed that the cave was more easily accessible in the past than it is today. Before the Great Fall , another corridor branches off, which runs parallel to the main corridor and is connected to it by two gaps . Via a further dug silt to reach behind the Great Versturz the 7 m × 5 m measured Bison hall whose ceiling height is 2 m. Two parallel passages lead out of it, of which the left one ends after around 14 m as a sinter passage and thus marks the easternmost point of the cave.
Location of the cave entrance in an abandoned quarry
A cage with entry grids protects the cave from entry
Notice board with information on bat protection
Simplified floor plan (as of 1993)
literature
- Hans Binder, Herbert Jantschke: Cave guide Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2003, ISBN 3-87181-485-7 , p. 81.
- Hans Binder, Herbert Jantschke, Peter Heinzelmann, Karl-Heinz Pfeffer: Karst and Cave 1993, Karst Landscape Swabian East Alb . Association of German Cave and Karst Researchers V., Munich 1993, ISSN 0342-2062 , pp. 153-155.
- Fritz Weidenbach: Annual books for karst and cave studies - karst and caves in the Brenz and Lone area (Swabian Alb) . Association of German Cave and Karst Researchers V., Munich 1960, pp. 35-37.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roger Schuster: The Schreiberhöhle (7226/06) near Steinheim. January 1, 1997, accessed June 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Hans Binder, Herbert Jantschke: Höhlenführer Schwäbische Alb . DRW Association, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2003, p. 81 .
- ↑ Hans Binder, Herbert Jantschke, Peter Heinzelmann, Karl-Heinz Pfeffer: Karst und Höhle 1993, Karstlandschaft Schwäbische Ostalb . Association of German Cave and Karst Researchers eV Munich, Munich 1993, p. 153-155 .
- ↑ Hans Binder, Helmut Frank, Karl Müller: The caves of the Heidenheimer and the Ulmer Alb - Schreiberhöhle. In: Yearbooks for Karst and Speleology 1960 . Association of German Cave and Karst Researchers eV Munich, Munich 1960, p. 35-37 .