Wonder cave

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Wonder cave

Wonder cave, entrance

Wonder cave, entrance
Location: Muggendorf , Franconian Switzerland , Germany
Height : 465  m above sea level NN
Geographic
location: 		49 ° 47 '58.1 "  N , 11 ° 16' 20.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '58.1 "  N , 11 ° 16' 20.1"  E
Wundershöhle (Bavaria)
Wonder cave
Cadastral number: C 8
Type: Stalactite cave
Discovery: 1772
Overall length: 70 meters

The Wundershöhle is a natural karst cave near Muggendorf, a district of the Upper Franconian community of Wiesenttal in the Forchheim district in Bavaria .

The cave is located on the Hohlen Berg , about 800 meters east of Muggendorf.

description

Together with the Witzenhöhle and the Oswaldhöhle , it belongs genetically to a single system. Only when the Wiesent deepened the caves were separated from each other. The Wundershöhle is connected to Witzenhöhle by a silt . The low entrance is about 25 meters from the Oswald Cave. It can be found under a rock roof at the foot of a staircase to the right in an easterly direction.

Schluf to the main cave

The cave was discovered on November 7th, 1772 by the Muggendorf cave inspector Johann Georg Wunder when he was looking for protection from a thunderstorm under a rock overhang. As he stepped on a rusty key, it occurred to him that this might be the entrance to a larger cave. He dug and uncovered today's narrow entrance. During this time, Johann Friedrich Esper also reported finds of cave bear bones . In 1969 M. Geyer and Manfred Moser discovered a charcoal layer with some metal-age fragments.

The entrance hall is after a narrow silt that can only be passed by crawling. A three to four meter deep steep step leads to a rectangular room. Another room is connected via dolomite quarry and a rock bar, the walls of which have numerous pits and crevices. Of stalactites is hardly anything to see. A narrow point at the end of this room leads to the best preserved part of the cave with well preserved sintered molds . At the end of this room there is also the transition (difficult to pass silt) to the Witzenhöhle.

The total length of the passage in the wonder cave is about 70 meters. The cave is designated as a geotope (474H005) and natural monument (ND-04586) by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment . The wonder cave is registered as C 8 in the Franconian Alb cave cadastre (HFA).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geotope: Oswaldhöhle, Witzenhöhle and Wundershöhle SE from Muggendorf (accessed on March 22, 2020).
  2. ↑ Natural monuments in the Forchheim district (accessed on August 27, 2016)

literature

  • Stephan Lang: Höhlen in Franken - hiking guide into the underworld of Franconian Switzerland with new tours . Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-418-00385-6 , p. 84.
  • Brigitte Kaulich, Hermann Schaaf: Small guide to caves around Muggendorf . 3rd, unchanged edition. Natural History Society - Department for Cave and Karst Research, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-922877-00-1 , pp. 31 and 36–37.
  • Hardy Schabdach: Underground Worlds - Caves of Franconian and Hersbruck Switzerland . Verlag Reinhold Lippert, Ebermannstadt 2000, ISBN 3-930125-05-6 , pp. 17-18.
  • Friedrich Herrmann: Caves of the Franconian and Hersbrucker Switzerland . 2nd, improved edition. Hans Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 1991, ISBN 3-418-00356-7 , pp. 59-60.

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