Zinsel Cave
The Zinselhöhle is a 160 meter long, natural karst cave near Meschenbach , a district of the Frankenblick community in the Sonneberg district in Thuringia . It serves as winter quarters for bats . The dormouse also use the cave as a shelter.
geology
With the elevation of the Thuringian Slate Mountains along the Franconian Line since the Middle Cretaceous and in the Tertiary 70 million years ago, several hundred meters of Mesozoic overburden were removed and the folds of folds formed in the Upper Carboniferous during the Variscan orogeny 320 million years agomade visible again. At the same time, the northern edge of the adjacent southern German plaice broke. Since then, acidic spring water from the mountains has penetrated into the cracks and crevices of the Schalkau Muschelkalkplatte and enlarges them. When visiting the Zinselhöhle you can watch a cave as it is being formed.
Tourist use
The Zinselhöhle is open to visitors from May to early October. It can be ridden at any time after prior registration with one of the cave guides.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zinselhöhle Meschenbach. Thuringian Forest, accessed June 8, 2015 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 32.7 " N , 11 ° 4 ′ 19.8" E