The Maximiliansgrotte is a in the proximity of the municipality new house to the Pegnitz. The length amounts to 1.7 km, the largest height of 70 M. your deepest point lies 70 meters underground. The Grotte consists of a branched Gangsystem with smaller and larger resounding. They are on several floors. The public guidance take place only in a part of the entire cave.

Names, which are to remind of their outside form, got a resounding. Thus there is one "„to Orgelgrotte "“and a vault. In the Grotte is a six meter hocher Tropfstein, the so-called "„iceberg "“. It is considered as as the largest Tropfstein in Germany. The Grotte was called in former times Windloch, it in the year 1596 in writing was for the first time mentioned, when the cure prince Friedrich IV. of the Pfalz tried to make from Tropfsteinen gold. It let "„the yellow subject create at that time "“from the cave. In reality it concerned cave loam.

1703 was thrown in the Spanish succession war 28 soldiers into the cave. During the war the farmers from the environment hid their wives and daughters in the Maximiliansgrotte. The today's entrance was discovered only 1852.

Their last name it received from the Bavarian king Maximilian II. in memory of it it to 1854 in Maximiliansgrotte was renamed. Since 1878 can be visited the cave. 1994 was replaced the carbide lamps, whose soot had blackened many Tropfsteine, by electrical light. Annually about 20,000 guests visit the cave. In the comparison to the probably most well-known cave of Frankish Switzerland, the devil cave with 200.000 visitors, the number is relatively small.

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