Devil's Gorge (Eifel)
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The Teufelsschlucht is located on the eastern edge of the Ferschweiler plateau in the South Eifel nature park near Irrel .
It was formed towards the end of the last ice age , around 10,000 years ago as a result of a rock fall or a series of rock falls.
The geological situation on the one hand and the climatic situation on the other were decisive for this event . The heavily fissured, more or less porous rock layers of the so-called Luxembourg sandstone (geologically classified in the lower Jura, also known as the Lias ) lie on the layers of the Keuper , which tend to be impermeable to water . This results in unstable storage as the weathering progresses due to the undercutting of the sandstone base. Towards the end of the last Ice Age, this undercut, in combination with extensive frost splitting, probably reached a maximum, which resulted in the aforementioned rockfalls.
Today numerous boulders on the slopes of the Ferschweiler plateau testify to the mass movements of this time. The Devil's Gorge is a crevice about one to five meters wide that was created as a direct result of rock fall events.
With its steep rock faces, narrow gorges and crevices, the bizarre rocky landscape of the Teufelsschlucht is a destination and a starting point for further hikes in the area.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 44 ″ N , 6 ° 26 ′ 27 ″ E