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Seegrotte Hinterbruehl, Austria
Newest Review: ... visitors have toured the mine and its workings. At the beginning of October I went to Vienna for a weeks break from the drudgery of work, it was a last minute choice of destination (well, I booked it three weeks before leaving but everything else was booked up for the week I wanted to go, my original choice was either Prague or Venice) and it was an inspired choice as it turned out. The ... more  ... second day of our holiday saw us driving out of the city and down to the Bergwerk Seegrotte, we had seen a pamphlet about it in the hotel and thought it looked interesting.
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Seegrotte Hinterbruehl, Austria: Subterrainian fun in Austria. (887 words)
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The "SEEGROTTE" in Hinterbrühl, just south of Vienna is a fascinating historical site open to the public for tours and souvenirs. The Seegrotte is actually an old Gypsum mine where white and red Gypsum was mined from the late 1800’s. In 1912 a blasting operation let loose millions of gallons of water which flooded the lower caverns of the mine, creating the largest underground lake in Europe. In the 1930’s a team of cave explorers found the lake and eventually they managed to open the mine for all to see this amazing spectacle. During World War 2 the Germans requisitioned the mine and pumped all the water out, they then set up an ... Read the complete review
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