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Surprising find while renovating: Farmer in Austria discovers secret passage from the Middle Ages on his farm.
© Thomas Scheucher, State Association for Speleology in Upper Austria
Actually, a farmer in Austria just wanted to renovate something on his farm.
Under an old concrete floor he comes across something unexpected.
Dobersberg – Not everything always goes according to plan on construction sites.
Things that no one expects are probably part of it.
However, when renovating the house on the farm of Florian Schmied from Dobersberg in Austria, things were quite abysmal.
When he tried to pry open an old concrete floor in a room, a two-meter-deep cave opened up.
Farmer in Austria makes amazing discovery on his farm
“Suddenly I had one foot stuck in a hole,” Schmied told
meine.at.
The hole under the floor was 1.7 meters deep and a passage led away from it.
When renovating, surprising things often come to light.
Secrets can lie dormant in a bathroom floor.
In this case, however, the 30-year-old notified the Federal Monuments Office.
Cavers and experts arrived and pumped water out of the hole.
The specialists quickly realized that the farmer had discovered an underground secret passage from the Middle Ages under his farm - around 900 years old.
The preserved tunnels are 16 meters long, equipped with a round arch profile and 15 lamp niches.
Underground tunnels probably served as a hiding place from robbers
It is a so-called medieval earth stable, said earth stable researcher Josef Weichenberger.
It probably served as a refuge and hiding place for residents of a house during robberies, the Austrian researcher explained on the website
erdstallforschung.at.
Only 50 of these secret passages, which are otherwise between 30 and 40 meters long, are known in Lower Austria.
Six of the “earth stables” are currently open to the public.
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