Joke cave
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_01.jpg) Witzenhöhle, entrance |
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| Location: | Muggendorf , Franconian Switzerland , Germany | |
| Height : | 460 m above sea level NN | |
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Geographic location: |
49 ° 47 '58.3 " N , 11 ° 16' 19.6" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | C 7 | |
| Type: | Stalactite cave | |
| Overall length: | 150 meters | |
The Witzenhöhle is a natural karst cave near Muggendorf , a district of the Upper Franconian community Wiesenttal in the Forchheim district in Bavaria .
The cave is located on the Hohlen Berg , about 800 meters east of Muggendorf.
description
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Together with the Oswald Cave and the Wonder Cave , it belongs genetically to a single system. Only when the Wiesent deepened the caves were separated from each other. The Witzenhöhle is said to have been the "most terrifying and most gruesome" (after Johann Friedrich Esper ) cave in Franconian Switzerland. According to legend, sacrifices were made in the cave to the Slavic light god Svantevit ( Witt for short ) . The Witzenhöhle got its name from him. The south-facing entrance is about 9 meters wide and less than two meters high.
Behind the entrance there is a hall about 35 meters long, 16 meters wide and 5 meters high. The hall is partially covered with massive fall blocks, a rectangular one is called the altar .
The walls are partially damp and sintered. There are also pools of water. The very narrow access to a lower level of the cave is located between the broken blocks. At the end of the hall is the transition (difficult to walk silt ) to the wonder cave.
The cave is designated as a geotope (474H005) and natural monument (ND-04582) by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment . The cave is registered as C 7 in the Franconian Alb cave cadastre (HFA).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geotope: Oswaldhöhle, Witzenhöhle and Wundershöhle SE from Muggendorf (accessed on March 22, 2020).
- ↑ Natural monuments in the Forchheim district (accessed on August 27, 2016)
literature
- Brigitte Kaulich, Hermann Schaaf: Small guide to caves around Muggendorf . Natural History Society - Department for Cave and Karst Research, Nuremberg 1980, ISBN 3-922877-00-1 .
