Wichtelhöhlen (Bad Kissingen)
The Elves caves between your village and Bad Kissingen in Bavaria district of Bad Kissingen are about 20 different large red sandstone rock formations with small caves in the valley of the Franconian Saale.
- 5.1 Imp convents on the pulpit
- 5.2 The Elves in the Lindenmühle help the Müller
- 5.3 escape tunnel from the Botenlauben
Geography
Location
The Elves caves are located in the southeast of the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park, 3.5 km north-east of your village near the border of Bad Kissingen. In Your Strand district chunk Leite they are located to the west above the running in the valley of the Franconian Saale Federal Highway 287 and south below the the Heiligenhof passing road and forest road axis Old Kiss Singerstraße - Old Your Straße in the region of Western baffle slope of the river - estimated at about 250 m ü. NHN. On the opposite river bank, ( a straight line in each case ) the center of Bad Kissingen below the Eiringsburg ( Eyringsburg ) is located approximately 3 km south-southwest of a golf course.
Nature Spatial allocation
The Elves caves lie in the geography major unit group Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön (No. 14), in the main unit Südrhön (140) and in the subunit Eastern Südrhön ( 140.2 ) in the outer south of the natural environment Schönau plateau ( 140.20 ).
History
The Elves caves consist of rocks of the often forthcoming in Lower Franconia Buntsandstein. They are caused by erosion of the Franconian Saale. The actual " caves " are pronounced gaps and voids between the broken sandstone slabs. (for detailed information see Related links)
At the State Archives in Würzburg supports a file inventory from 1911, in which it comes to the creation of a new boardwalk path. The project was implemented by the then Commissioner bath Bad Kissingen ( modern: Kurverwaltung ). The works were projected for spring 1912. To study the Imp caves are connected to the district Garitz. Responsible for the planned construction project was the royal spa garden inspector Singer. This act may be taken as evidence for the early tourist use.
Since the first weekend in November 2012 the gnomes caves are closed to the public after parts of a larger rock formation were canceled. The cleanup work is not yet complete. Due to the rock barrier directly leading past the goblin caves trails and geological discovery trails were " way by the time " (7.5 km ) from Bad Kissingen to your village and " Panorama wine and stone " (12 km) from your village to Bad Kissingen in the affected stretch redirected. According to estimation by the Bavarian Office for the Environment in October 2013, the pending on the mountain side rock with progressive erosion once the hike down into the valley Leite chunk of the Franconian Saale. The first signs of this detachment from the rock mass are widely permanent fissures and small cavities. Additionally, there is speculation that heavy rain has caused this weekend before breaking the stone fragments.
Owner of the gnome caves are the " Bavarian State Forestry ", in charge of forest management is Brückenau.
Reserves and Fauna
The Elves caves are a protected landscape component and are in the conservation area Bayerische Rhön ( CDDA-Nr. 396113; 959.8 km ² ).
Especially in winter the small crevices and caves a refuge for animals that hibernate or hibernate. These exceptional circumstances lead to a special control of the local conservation authorities.
The Bavarian State Office for the Environment "valuable" and designation extends this protection measures by the geoscientific evaluation was carried out on 21 March 2013 as the Geotop.
Arts and Literature
In 1873, wrote the Mellrichstadt Johann Nepomuk Müller:
The Wichtelen that Wichtelen It is located deep in the mountains, Are tiny cute Dingerchen, Hardly bigger than the fingers, Much smaller than the dwarves.
The Wichtelen that Wichtelen They come in the mill, Each carries a Ährelein, in every ten Körnelein - The places it on the board.
In Saale reason at Kissingen Does one 's the Patzeleiten, There still live the Wichtelen You can view the small Dingerchen Well see at full moon times.
In two guidebooks from 1891 ( Leo Woerl ) and 1912 two gnome statues of Bad Kissinger sculptor Michael Arnold mentioned ( at Woerl but without mention of Michael Arnold as the creator of Gnome). These are today, however, probably due to theft, lost.
The painter and watercolorist Emil Waldmann dedicated on the occasion of an exhibition in Bad Bocklet in 2009 a cycle of three watercolors the theme, gnome caves '. In 2010, the Municipal Administration of Bad Kissingen first published a Faltflyer as information for Geotop.
Myths and legends
Imp convents on the pulpit
The Elves would hold regular conventions on the pulpit. The leader uses this as a platform for his speeches. It would thereby keep hearing many sounds and noises in the forest.
The Elves in the Lindenmühle help the Müller
The Elves helped once the miller of the nearby Lindenmühle ( in different stories a peasant ). After he had insulted the elves, this disappeared and Müller ( Bauer) got into trouble.
Escape tunnel from the Botenlauben
From the ruins Botenlauben starting there should have been an escape tunnel. This supposedly ended with the Imp caves. Just the Franconian Saale intervening makes this story seem structurally unlikely.