Looking for a cool place to escape the heat for a short time. Caves are good for that. Your advantages: zero sun, single-digit temperatures.
Stuttgart – When it’s so hot outside, some people are drawn to the cave to cool off. The bear cave and the fog cave near Reutlingen, for example, are currently in great demand.
“There are already a lot of visitors, and that’s going to be even more because of the heat,” said Ulrike Müller, head of the tourism department in Sonnenbühl. “Inside you can air out for half an hour, because it’s constantly nine degrees, for example in the bear’s cave” – here you can also see a 15,000-year-old bear skeleton.
Müller warned against appearing in flip-flops, sturdy shoes are more suitable. And despite the desire to cool off, you should take a jacket with you. “After ten minutes it gets really cool.”
Many caves in the Swabian Alb are designated as natural monuments, some are only accessible to a limited extent, others not at all. In total, about 2800 caves are known on the Alb. Many karst caves, most of which were located higher up, were suitable as shelters and dwellings; they offered Stone Age people protection from enemies and the weather. The Ice Age hunters and gatherers, who had to endure temperatures of plus 20 to minus 40 degrees in their skins, left a wealth of traces in the caves. dpa
