Verena Baggins Hole

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Entrance to the Verena-Baggins-Loch

The Verena-Beutlins-Loch is a small cave in the Swabian Alb ( Baden-Württemberg ). The cave is located on the Teckberg at 775  m above sea level. NN about one kilometer south of Teck Castle and above the village of Owen and the Lenninger Valley .

Description of the cave

The Verena-Beutlins-Loch leads almost vertically 5 meters into the ground. The cave floor consists of coarse fall material. The unsecured natural cave is to be climbed, but does not contain any safety measures. At the far end of the corridor , a narrow chimney falls steeply into the depths, but it has collapsed and would end another 7 meters below in the Veronika Cave. Overall, the Verena-Baggins-Hole is given a length of twelve meters and a height of eight meters.

Directions

From the Bölle hiking car park, you climb steeply to Teck Castle . When you reach the ridge, turn right. First you reach the upper yellow rock, then along the slope edge after about 50 meters the main rock yellow rock. Here is the unsecured entry.

History and legend

The first written mention of both the hole and the Veronikahöhle can be found in Martin Crusius in 1596 .

According to legend, Verena Baggins was the mother of two illegitimate children and lived in the cave in the 14th century. She sent her children to the village to beg and hung a red cloth on a branch high above the Yellow Rock while she was away. One winter day the residents of Owen asked the children about their origins. When they revealed the hiding place, residents moved up to the cave and arrested Verena Baggins. She confessed to being a witch under torture and was sentenced to death at the stake .

Peter Schönfeld set the legend to music in his jazz composition: "Hymn to Verena Baggins"

Surname

The Verena-Beutlins-Loch was long forgotten and was only cleared of rubble and rubble around 1860. At that time it was given the name Fronloch , either because it was evacuated as a result of forced labor or because delinquent forced laborers are said to have been locked in it.

literature

  • Hans Joachim Haupt: Discover with children - wild caves in the Swabian Alb. Fleischhauer & Spohn, Bietigheim-Bissingen 2002, p. 64, ISBN 978-3-87230-576-3 .
  • Hans Binder , Herbert Jantschke: Cave guide Swabian Alb. Caves - springs - waterfalls . 7th completely revised edition. DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2003, ISBN 3-87181-485-7 , p. 119 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 58 "  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 15"  E