This cave was built at the beginning of the 18th century by Samuel Görner, a native of Sloup, from the old Görner glassmaking family, which had a long tradition of manufacturing optical aids. Although he was a trained ornamental gardener, he also worked as a glass lens grinder. He lived in the cave from 1718 until April 27, 1735, when he moved to the Einseidlerstein (skalní poustevna). There, he devoted himself primarily to gardening and continued his work on the manufacture of spectacles and binoculars. In 1742, he fled to Prague, allegedly for fear of being recruited by the Prussians, and after his return, he made a living for a time from the manufacture of burning glasses. In 1756, he made a pilgrimage to Rome and, after his return around 1760, lived again as a hermit on Skalický vrch (Langenauer Berg). Later, he moved to an unoccupied hermit's hut on the Holy Mountain near Příbram, where he was robbed of the money that pilgrims had saved from him and murdered. His statue, with a telescope pointing towards the horizon, still symbolizes the Hermit's Stone on the southern edge of Sloup.
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