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Ideal for explorers big and small

About 300 meters upstream from the Apollo pit (where the Sosberger Bach is called Goschelbach for short before it becomes the Pfahlbach) a tunnel mouth opens directly on the gravel forest path in the rock. You can follow the tunnel for about 10 meters into the mountain, but it wasn't driven any further. On the opposite side of the valley there are two tunnels in the slope above and below a rather overgrown farm road. Below the path there is an open tunnel that leads about 35 meters straight into the mountain. However, the surrounding slate rubble already points to the tunnel above it, which is located in a cut in the ground. The rubble area in front suggests a tunnel that leads far into the mountain, but unfortunately it is filled with water right from the start. There is no end in sight.

Not very deep, but certainly an adventure for smaller children.

There is also a rest stop directly at the slate quarry

In 1880, Friedrich Wilhelm Franz from Wohnroth began digging a tunnel in the Katzenloch forest. He wanted to mine the coveted roofing slate here. However, the work was not crowned with success, the slate was of little use. He wasn't blue enough, as the technical term goes. Not hard enough we would say, it weathered too easily on the roof. So the work was soon abandoned. Today, the short, angled tunnel, also known as the Schnäirersch Leyebruch, is often used by children as a playground. Source: https://wohnroth-hunsrueck.de/geschichte-und-geschichten/schiefergruber.html

The tunnel leads a long way straight into the mountain to a collapsed mining dome. There you can squeeze into a tunnel that branches off to the left, which leads to another, two-part cathedral, from which several branches lead up and down, but a few rockfalls prevent you from progressing.