Top 6 Caves 알테나르 주변

This tunnel is accessible for a few meters. It branches off before it ends. Don't forget your flashlight!

The information board is also very interesting.

🖤Are in the dark... Curiosity had to be satisfied.. how far it goes in the tunnel...🙈🙉 Already scary... and yet exciting 🖤 Inside then mobile phone flashlight 🔦 on... and out again...👣👣 Has something.... little kick you can feel.🖤 Try it yourself 🖤

In the language of the island, the piece of land with the 3 tunnel entrances in the so-called Kupferberg has always been referred to as a "gold hole". However, neither gold nor other precious metals have brought any monetary benefit to the citizens of the island in recent times. Rather, after mining was abandoned in the 1930s, the tunnels served as a place of refuge from bombing raids in World War II.

The "Alte Stollen" in Binzenbach directly on the Sahrbachweg goes about 30m deep into the mountain and can be entered at your own risk. A flashlight you have brought with you is a good service here.

The Mother of God depicted and venerated here is that of Lourdes. This well-known Marian pilgrimage site is located in the French Pyrenees and is visited by many people every year, including many sick people hoping for healing. The devotional image of the Mother of God has become widespread - not only in France - and Lourdes chapels and grottos have been built by believers everywhere. The ecclesiastical memorial day "Our Lady in Lourdes" is February 11th, this is the anniversary of the Apparition of the Virgin Mary (1858), when Our Lady appeared to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous in a rock grotto very close to Lourdes. Bernadette later became a nun and died at the age of just 35. She was canonized by Pope Pius XI on December 8, 1933 (the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary). The Day of the Lourdes Madonna is also World Day of the Sick.

By the way, a lively history lesson! An information board gives an insight into the period around 1944. How does it feel to go inside today? How deep is the bunker? Find out here!

Interesting information about mining in the region and the discovery of gold coins by Italian railway workers. It is also worth taking a close look at the tunnel entrances up in the rock. Great place to take a break, about halfway along the Ahr cycle path.