Riesending cave

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Riesending cave

The Riesending cave (German: Riesending-Schachthöhle) is a pit cave in Untersberg and the deepest and longest in Germany. 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 a pit cave in Untersberg, Bavaria. At 19,300m it is the longest and 1,148m the deepest in Germany.^[1] Riesending was discovered in 1996 by Hermann Sommer and Ulrich Meyer.^[2]

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 52-year-old  [de], 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 .^[3]

See also[]

• Riesending cave rescue

Further reading[]

• Thomas Matthalm, Ulrich Meyer (2009). "Die Riesending-Schachthöhle im Untersberg" (PDF). – Zeitschrift für Karst und Höhlenkunde. Verband Österreichischer Höhlenforscher, Verband der deutschen Höhlen- und Karstforscher e.V. 60: 33–43.
• Lars Abromeit (2010). "An diesen geschundenen Strick soll ich mein Leben hängen?" (1). : 100–114. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Ulrich Meyer (2012). "Auf der Suche nach dem Barbarossa-System im Untersberg" (PDF). Akten des 13. Nationalen Kongresses für Höhlenforschung, 2012 – Actes du 13e Congrès national de Spéléologie. Muotathal: 68–74. Retrieved 2012-10-25.
• Ulrich Meyer: Das Riesending im Untersberg. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Höhlenforschung Bad Cannstatt e.V. (Hrsg.), Bad Cannstatt 2015.

References[]

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External links[]

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• Beschreibung der Riesending Höhle Website der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Höhlenforschung Bad Cannstatt e.V.
• Stephanie Geiger „Bayerns tiefster Punkt“ in Die Welt, 21. September 2008

Coordinates: 47°41′58″N 12°58′59″E / 47.6994°N 12.9831°E / 47.6994; 12.9831

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