The Riesenburg cave impresses with its magical vaults and gorges through which the Engelhardsberg hiking trail leads to the Wiesenttal with a height difference of almost 150 m. On the Brunnenweg, which is a short distance from the hiking trail, women had to carry the water in small wooden barrels from the fountain in the Wiesenttal to Engelhardsberg.

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Harald🔆

October 28, 2016

The King Ludwig Felsen is known as Crevice Cave "Riesenburg"

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〽️Markus

March 4, 2017

Count Franz Erwein von Schönborn had the giant castle made accessible by means of paths and stairs. This was done on the occasion of a visit by the Bavarian King Ludwig I, who visited the cave at the beginning of the 19th century. A couplet by the king carved into the rock at the lookout point above the cave commemorates this visit: "Following the wind, the clouds come to the rock and then retreat, but the rock stands unchanging in time."

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Location: Wiesenttal, Forchheim, Franconian Switzerland, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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