Barbarossa Cave
The Barbarossa Cave is an anhydrite cave (gypsum cave) in the Kyffhäuser Hills near Rottleben in the east German state of Thuringia. It is a cave with large caverns, grottos and lakes. The anhydrite has formed gypsum on the surface due to the air moisture in the cave and, as a result, has increased in volume. The resulting layers of gypsum gradually separate from the underlying rock and hang like wallpaper from the walls and ceilings of the caverns.
Details
- Length
- 1100 m
- Geology
- Anhydrite (Werra Formation)endogenous stratigraphic boundary cave (Schlotte Wimmelburger Type)
- Website
- [http://www.barbarossahoehle.de/ www.barbarossahoehle.de]
- Features
- * Gipslappen
- Lighting
- electric (since 1895)
- Location
- Kyffhäuser, Germany
- Visitors
- 70,000 (2011)
- Discovery
- 1865
- Show Cave
- 1866
- Other Name
- Barbarossahöhle
- Photo Caption
- Flakes of gypsum in the Barbarossa Cave (2005)
- Show Cave Length
- 600 m