Top 16 Caves around Eppendorf

I can highly recommend this area - it's so great, interesting and varied.

exciting what nature creates...

You have to climb a little, but you get a great view into the Swedish holes

Pfaffens Ruh is a small cave located above the Zschopau River on the left bank of the river on the hiking trail towards Witzschdorf. This small burrow, which once housed the wheel bearing of a winch, was named after the landowner who owned the property here: Pfaff. The winch pulled tree trunks up the slope for the blue dye factory. Today, a date and mining symbols can still be seen carved into the stone. But be careful, as you walk past, you can hear the sand trickling a little. Entering the cave is therefore not recommended. https://www.ins-erzgebirge.de/Pfaffens-Ruh#google_vignette

Really interesting! 👍🏻

what a beautiful landscape

Nice big rocks

The arched mouth hole of the Neuer Segen Gottes Stolln with lining wall and quarrying made of quarry stone has the inscription "Mouth hole ... Neuer Segen Gottes Stolln 1817" on the keystone. A small drainage rose branches off underground from the tunnel and emerges not far from the mouth hole in a narrow, brick drainage ditch that flows into the Striegis. The New Blessing of God tunnel, also referred to as Seven Planets Erbstolln as an addition to the Seven Planets Fundgrube, was probably started as early as the 16th century, but only gained greater importance as a water-dissolving tunnel after it was taken over by the Himmelsfürst Fundgrube. From 1817, the treasure trove extended the tunnel further into its pit, so that it not only solved the pit of the Seven Planets Treasure Trove, but also other important shafts in Linda and Himmelsfürst, such as the Siegismund shaft (preserved heap part of the "Brander Revier”, cf. 09208116), the Albert Schacht (cf. 09208666), the Franken Schacht in 1840 (cf. 09208602) and the Glück auf Schacht (cf. 08991313). Previously, the Himmelsfürster pit was drained from the Thelersberger Stolln (cf. 09208657), which is about 21 meters higher, but the pit water was then able to drain away at a greater depth and over a much shorter distance via the Neuer Segen Gottes Stolln. Including its tunnel wing, the tunnel has a comparatively short length of approx. 6.6 kilometers. From 1854 onwards, Himmelsfürst was able to drain into the Moritz tunnels, which were even lower, so that the Neuer Segen Gottes tunnels became less important in the years that followed. From 1947 to 1950 it was made usable again by SAG Wismut and again discharged pit water from the western part of the Himmelsfürst pit and from the Glück auf shaft emergency drainage system. The adit also served as flood protection and relieved the Rothschönberger adit. As an important water release tunnel for the pits in Linda and Himmelsfürst, the Neuer Segen Gottes tunnel is of local and, above all, mining-historical significance. Its mouth, together with the water drainage ditch, are surface testimonies of this drainage system, which is so important for mining at greater depths and are therefore of great documentary value – also seen in connection with the Thelersberger Stolln.