The Barbarossa Cave was discovered on December 20, 1865, during the excavation of a tunnel for copper ore mining. It was expanded and opened as a show cave under the name Falkenburg Cave in 1866. It was renamed Barbarossa Cave in 1866, when Friedrich Herthum (1828–1882), the Princely Mining Master of Könitz, used this name on the mine plan he had drawn. The name Barbarossa Cave entered literature in 1868, when Herthum published the first publication about the cave. It has a floor area of approximately 15,000 m². Of interest to visitors are the underground lakes, shimmering green due to their gypsum content, as well as the so-called Table and Chair of Barbarossa. Wikipedia

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