House without a Roof (Kallmünz)

The House Without a Roof, as it is officially called, is a still-used cave dwelling in the Upper Palatinate town of Kallmünz. The cave dwelling is located north of the Vils River at the southern end of the Schlossberg, on which the Kallmünz Castle ruins stand. The entrance is set back from Vilsgasse at the foot of a roughly 20-meter-high limestone cliff of the Schlossberg, and the access leads between the listed residential buildings at Vilsgasse 26 and Vilsgasse 28.The house consists of a natural cave in the dolomite rock, the opening of which is closed off by a plastered wall with a door and windows. Inside, there is a hallway, a living room, two storage rooms fitted into rock niches, and a historic smokehouse.The oldest known mention of the cave dwelling is found in a document preserved in the land registry archive in Amberg, dated 1707. In the 19th century, it was also known as the "House under the Rock." In 1908, it was sold to the owner of the blacksmith shop located across the road, and it remains in his family's possession. The last permanent resident left the house in 1937 because he had developed rheumatism from the damp cave air.

Nice little house in the rock.

A foolish peculiarity in the beautiful Kallmünz. House in the rock