Iberg Dripstone Cave
| Iberg Dripstone Cave | |
|---|---|
View of the Museum am Berg built in 2008 | |
| Location | near Bad Grund, Harz mountains, Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°49′03″N 10°15′10″E / 51.81750°N 10.25278°E |
| Length | 220 m |
| Elevation | 440 m |
| Discovery | 1723 |
| Geology | Dripstone cave |
| Show cave opened | 1874 |
| Show cave length | 351 m |
| Lighting | electric (since 1912) |
| Visitors | 60,500 (2004–2008) |
| Website | Official website |
The Iberg Dripstone Cave (German: Iberger Tropfsteinhöhle) is a public cave and geology museum in southern Lower Saxony near Bad Grund, Germany. It is located on the western edge of the Harz mountains in the 563-metre-high (1,847 ft) Iberg mountain at a height of 440 metres (1,440 ft) above sea level in the chalk of an upper Devonian atoll reef. The actual dripstone cave is 123 metres long. With its 78-metre-long (256 ft) Captain Spatzier Gallery, the Yellow Climb (Gelben Stieg) and two other caverns, the total length of the cave is 300 metres (980 ft).
Between 2006 and 2008, the cave was turned into a 'cave experience centre' with the three main themes of "Fascination Cave" "The oldest family in the world" and "A reef on a journey".