Kleines Schulerloch inscription

Main hall with mood backlight

The Schulerloch is a limestone cave in the Altmühltal at essing in Bavaria. The 420 -meter-long cave in the Jurassic limestone is located 55 meters above the valley floor. The largest room is 793 m² in size.

In the cave cadastre Franconian Alb ( HFA), the Schulerloch is registered as H 1. The Schulerloch is as Geotop Number: 273H001 out. In addition, the neighboring land as a nature reserve ( NSG 00087.01 ) is reported.

History

The Schulerloch was first mentioned in a letter of 1783. It is said that the cave served as a retreat of Bavarian dukes. Councillor Anton von Schmauss acquired in 1825 the area with the cave and had built two pavilions at the entrance and install that over the entrance an inscription with a reference to one of the legend, formerly located there Celtic Druids school.

The name Schulerloch is attributed partly to the Druids school and partly on the altbairsche word Schuller for robbers. Of this also tells a tale of a sacrilegious robber, who said to have become along with his dog as a punishment to stone there. Another legend tells of schoolchildren who were lured by an evil spirit there and never seen again. 40,000 to 60,000 years ago, there are Neanderthals have at times lived. What is certain is that there have stopped people in both the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

Noteworthy are a Becherstalagmit in the form of a water basin and the cauliflower-like calcium deposits on the ceiling. The show cave can only be visited by guided tour and is used because of its acoustics for various events. From November to March it is locked for the protection of wintering bats.

200 meters west of the Great Schulerloch the Small Schulerloch is a prehistoric Felsritzung an ibex or rentiers. The motif was discovered by Justice Inspector Alexander Obereder from Kelheim and the taxidermist Oskar Rieger in 1937. The Small Schuler hole is closed by a gate and not open to visitors.