Erdmannshöhle

The Erdmannshöhle (also called Hasler cave ) is a limestone cave in the southern Black Forest, Baden -Wuerttemberg ( Germany ). It is located in north-eastern outskirts of the mountain range Dinkelberg ( Hasler Karst ) at the southern end of hazel.

Description

The beginning of the formation of stalactites and stalagmites in the cave Erdmann is dated from cave Kund learning at the end of the Riss glaciation years ago about 125 000.

The far -measured total length of cave passages is over 2350 meters that belong to a complex cave system with a north- south extent of about 370 meters, an east- west distance of approximately 126 meters and a height difference of 24 meters. Of these include 356 meters.

Many very old and very large stalactites are present in the cave. One of them has long been regarded as Germany's oldest and largest, but has since become more were discovered in other caves. With an age of several hundred thousand years ( radiocarbon dating; estimated earlier to over one million years) it has grown to over four meters high and two meters thick.

The name of the cave comes from a legend, after the earlier Meerkats ( dwarfs ) are said to have lived in the cave.

The first written mention in a district description ( Erdmännleins Grub ) is dated to the mid -1750s.

Not too far away are the Tschamberhöhle in Rheinfelden (Baden ) and the Eichener lake at Oak ( Schopfheim ), for which there is also an underground connection.