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Tränenlay Tufa Cave

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Tränenlay Tufa Cave

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Tränenlay Tufa Cave

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Location: Wallendorf, Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Karin 🐾 🇺🇦 🕊

September 6, 2020

The Tränenlay is located directly on the road from Bollendorf towards Wallendorf, near the Sauerbrücke in Dillingerbrück.

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R.Bungartz

September 5, 2020

The Tränenlay is a lime sinter grotto that is well worth seeing, in which limestone deposits have created unusual rock shapes.
The explanation for this phenomenon: When rainwater seeps through the thick layer of sandstone on the plateau, it loosens the calcareous binder that holds the quartz grains of the rock together. Where spring water emerges on slopes and valley cuts, but also in the bank area of streams or rivers, carbonic acid escapes from the soluble lime compound, the water evaporates and what remains is an almost pure limestone. It is called lime sinter or tufa. The calcareous sinter settles along the flow paths of the water and covers moss and parts of plants with a stone crust. This is how fascinating rock shapes are created. The process of tufa formation continues, the rocks "grow" like stalactites. Source: eifel.info/a-traenenlay

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January 29, 2023

The tear lay is right on the road on the German side near the bridge to Dillingerbrück. Drops of water continuously trickle down from a larger moss-covered rock. It's raining even in the cave. Apparently the whole thing is fed by a stream above. Worth seeing!

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Location: Wallendorf, Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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