Trollkyrkja
The Trollkyrkja ( German "Troll Church" ) is a limestone cave in Elnesvågen in the municipality of Hustadvika in the Norwegian Fylke Møre og Romsdal .
The Trollkyrkja consists of three grottos. There used to be four caves , but one collapsed. A river with waterfalls flows through the cave system and in some places daylight comes in. The two lower caves have waterfalls that fall 14 meters into a white marble pool. The upper cave consists mostly of long corridors.
The Molde and Romsdals Tourist Association made the cave known and passable in 1890. The association took care of the maintenance until the late 1980s, when the municipality of Fræna took over responsibility.
On the surface west of the upper cave is a pond. Its water flows down into the cave through cracks in the mountain.
The name Trollkyrkja occurs more often (in different spellings) in the north:
- About 2.5 km north of Tårstad in Fylke Nordland is the "Trollkjerka" or "Trollkirka", with about 6000 m length (2000 m of which is mapped) one of the longest stalactite caves in Norway.
- The Trollkyrka in the Swedish national park Tiveden is a secluded rock .
- A few kilometers north of Jomala in Finland is the Ingbyberg and the approximately 11 m deep Trollkyrka cave.
- The Dolmen Troldkirken is located southwest of Aalborg in the Nordjylland region in Denmark .
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Coordinates: 62 ° 53 '22.2 " N , 7 ° 16' 2.4" E