If you come from Obernzenn in the direction of Sontheim on the hill to the left into the so-called "Panzerstraße" and after another 200 meters follow a narrow path into the forest, you will look in vain for a real cave. There is an abandoned sandstone quarry that tells an interesting story.
The dark red reed sandstone of the quarry has provided fragments for foundations and half-timbering, ashlars for walls, door and gate posts, window frames and much more over centuries, well into the Aisch Valley.
There are inscriptions in the sandstone of the Fingals Cave. Names of the Seckendorff, Guttenberg, Truchseß and others with dates from the last decades of the 18th and the first of the 19th century. Why? With the approaching period of romanticism, a sentimental turn to nature developed, for which one had hardly anything in mind before. People liked to move out to an idyllic place to go out into the country. For this, the Obernzenner castle residents and their guests were offered the romantic quarry area under the canopy of oaks, lime trees and beeches. As a memento, the name and year were engraved on the smoothed rock walls.
Two French inscriptions fall out of the box. They refer to the American War of Independence 1776-83 and the French Period 1806-10. The memorial inscription for Hauptmann von Erckert was probably arranged by Adam Erckert, who was in the service of the Obernzenner Seckendorff at this time. Of course, the language of the rulers and the educated circles of the time, French, was chosen for the inscription.
(Source: Heimatbuch “Leben in Obernzenn and its districts once and now” and “The Fingals Cave in Sontheimer Holz” - a contribution by the Federal Nature Conservation Association, local group Bad Windsheim, on local history)