Falkensteiner-Hoehle Karst Schwaebische-Alb.jpg
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Deutsch: Falkensteiner Höhle, eine über 5 km (Stand 1999) lange, speläologisch bedeutende, Höhle mit geringem Wassergang, im Wald versteckt, aber gut zugänglich, NE von Bad Urach, Schwäbische Alb. Am ca. 10 m hohen Höhlenportal tritt das Wasser nur noch bei extrem hohem Niederschlag oder Schneeschmelze aus und fließt dann links vom Fußweg ins Tal hinab. Bei „normalem“ Wasservolumen sinkt der Höhlenbach im Inneren ca. 20 m vor dem Portal durch ein Ponor in ein tieferes Karst-Stockwerk und kommt vor dem „Pfähler Talboden“ wieder zutage. Bei normalem Wassergang ist die Höhle bis zum ersten Siphon ohne Tauchausrüstung befahrbar. Der Höhlenbach wird zur Karstquelle der Elsach. Die Befahrung der Höhle erfordert Erfahrung und spezielle Kleidung. English: „Falkensteiner Höhle“, a more than 5 km long cave with a stream inside, northeast of the town Bad Urach, Swabian Alb. Under „normal“ condition the stream sinks through a ponor, which is 20 m inside the cave. Here it drops down into a lower karst level, resurging in the valley bottom. Only during exceptionally high floods or after snowmelt some stream water leaves through the portal, running down to the left of the path. There are several sumps in the cave, which could only be explored and passed through by speleological experts. The cave’s stream is the karst spring of the local “Elsach”, which joins the “Erms” at Bad Urach. |
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