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The Riesending cave (german: Riesending-Schachthöhle) is a
Description of the cave
Website of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Höhlenforschung, Bad Cannstatt e.V.
"> "La grotte de Riesending - Descente au fond du gouffre" / "Das Riesending - 20.000 Meter unter der Erde"
by Freddie Röckenhaus - Arte.tv in French and German. In the wake of five speleologists, an exploration of the deepest and longest cave in Germany. Spectacular and immersive. 1 min Caves of Germany Berchtesgaden Alps {{Bavaria-geo-stub
The Riesending cave (german: Riesending-Schachthöhle) is a pit cave
A pit cave, shaft cave or vertical cave—or often simply called a pit (in the US) and pothole or pot (in the UK); jama in South Slavic languages scientific and colloquial vocabulary (borrowed since early research in the Western Balkan Dinaric ...
in the Untersberg
The Untersberg is the northernmost massif of the Berchtesgaden Alps, a prominent spur straddling the border between Berchtesgaden, Germany and Salzburg, Austria. The highest peak of the table-top mountain is the Berchtesgaden Hochthron at .
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near Berchtesgaden
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, Germany
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and Salzburg
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The town is on the site of the ...
, Austria
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. At 1,148 m it is the deepest and at 19,300 m the longest cave in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. It was discovered in 1996. In June 2014 it became well known because of a large effort to rescue a lead speleologist.
Description
The Riesending cave (German for "huge thing") is apit cave
A pit cave, shaft cave or vertical cave—or often simply called a pit (in the US) and pothole or pot (in the UK); jama in South Slavic languages scientific and colloquial vocabulary (borrowed since early research in the Western Balkan Dinaric ...
in the Untersberg
The Untersberg is the northernmost massif of the Berchtesgaden Alps, a prominent spur straddling the border between Berchtesgaden, Germany and Salzburg, Austria. The highest peak of the table-top mountain is the Berchtesgaden Hochthron at .
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, near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. At 23,800 m it is the longest and 1,148 m the deepest in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
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Riesending was discovered in 1996 by Hermann Sommer and Ulrich Meyer.
In June 2014, Riesending became well known to the general public for the largest ever rescue effort, the rescue in the Riesending cave, taking eleven days by 700 members of a multinational group of cave rescuers to rescue then-52-year-old , one of the original and principal researchers of the cave, a physicist, speleologist and cave rescuer himself, who had been injured in a rockfall deep in the cave.
See also
*Schellenberg ice cave
The Schellenberg Ice Cave is a cave located in the Berchtesgaden Alps in Upper Bavaria, Germany, near the Austrian border. The cave belongs to the Untersberg massif, at 1570 metres above sea level, and is the only ice cave open in Germany. It ...
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References
Further reading
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Description of the cave
Website of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Höhlenforschung, Bad Cannstatt e.V.
"> "La grotte de Riesending - Descente au fond du gouffre" / "Das Riesending - 20.000 Meter unter der Erde"
by Freddie Röckenhaus - Arte.tv in French and German. In the wake of five speleologists, an exploration of the deepest and longest cave in Germany. Spectacular and immersive. 1 min Caves of Germany Berchtesgaden Alps {{Bavaria-geo-stub