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Encyclopedia Britannica



ADELSBERG (Slovene Postojina)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 190 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
ADELSBERG (Slovene Postojina) , a market-town in
Carniola
 ,
Austria
 , 30 M. S.S.W. of
Laibach
  by
rail
 . Pop. (1900) 3636, mostly Slovene. About a mile from the town is the entrance to the famous stalactite cavern of Adelsberg, the largest and most magnificent in Europe. The cavern is divided into four grottoes, with two lateral ramifications which reach to the distance of about a mile and a half from the entrance. The river Poik enters the cavern 6o ft. below its mouth, and is heard murmuring in its recesses. In the Kaiser-Ferdinand grotto, the third of the
chain
 , a
great
  ball is annually held on Whit-Monday, when the chamber is brilliantly illuminated. The Franz-Joseph-Elisabeth grotto, the largest of the four, and the farthest from the entrance, is 665 ft. in length, 64o ft. in breadth and more than too ft. high. Besides the imposing proportions of its chambers, the cavern is remarkable for the variegated beauty of its stalactite formations, some resembling transparent drapery, others waterfalls, trees, animals or human beings, the more grotesque being called by various fanciful appellations. These
subterranean wonders were known as far back as 1213, but the cavern remained undiscovered in
modern
  times until 1816, and it is only in still more
recent
  times that its vast extent has been fully ascertained and explored. The
total
  length of the passages is' now estimated at over 5i M. The connexion with the Ottokar grotto was established in 18go. The Magdalene grotto, about an hour's walk to the
north
 , is celebrated for the extraordinary subterranean amphibian, the proteus anguinus, first discovered there. It is about a foot in length, lives on snails and worms and is provided with both lungs and gills.


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