cave, researchers have discovered in the Bergisches Land a several million-year-old, huge cave. According to information of the municipality and of the working group on cave (AKKH) Klutert it is a widely branched System. “This is huge. We went two and a half hours and found no end,“ said the AKKH-Chairman Stefan Voigt, who had entered the cave as the first explorers, on Friday. Previously, media had reported.
In her previous two tours, the researchers would have expired corridors with a total length of about one Kilometer, said Voigt. “What is particularly unusual is that the corridors were free of obstacles.” In some Places they were more than ten meters high and five meters wide. The “wind hole” cave in the Ründerother mill mountain at Engelskirchen (oberbergischer Kreis) is now to be extensively measured and studied.
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discovered How big the underground Labyrinth, in fact, he could not estimate yet, said Voigt. The largest cave in the Rhineland, it is not likely. For the Public in the “wind hole should not be made” accessible. Very close to the aggertal cave can also be visited. (dpa)
