The mighty spring of the underground waters on a slope foot of the Silicka
planina Plateau near today's the
Gombasecka Cave enticed an attention of the cavers long time. V.
Benicky as
well as J. Majko said about existence of the new cave system between
the
Silicka ladnica Ice Cave and Cierna vyvieracka Spring (Black Spring) in 1934. The
hydrologic problems of this system were solved and its existence was
supposed on the whole riverbasin geomorphological conditions base also by Z.
Roth (1939). The exploration has been started only
after the Slovak Speleological Society foundation in 1949.
The Cierna Spring near the village Gombasek attracted the mining surveyor
V.Rozloznik, who has decision to
penetrate into this one by the outflowing riverbed water level lows. With
L.Herenyi, S.Roda, A.Abonyi, A.Rusnak and S.Ivanec all together were
successful at the November 21, 1951 by the penetration again the Cierny
potok stream, and this way they discovered the Gombasecka Cave passages.
The stone rain in the Herenyi's Dome (89kB).
Works began on the cave opening for tourists' public after discovery
immediately. The new cave entrance is opened 11 m above the Cierna
vyvieracka Spring and one was artificially joined with the Objavna chodba
(the Discovery Passage) in 1952. In the following years the cave was
investigated and made accessible that on May 15, 1955 the cave was opened for
the larger public. In the 60th years the detail microclimatic investigation
of the cave leaded S. Roda was realized. The speleotherapeutic spa for
asthmatic disorders was being functioned in the cave from 1968 to 1993.
SLOVAKIA CAVE SERVER prepared by
Eduard Kladiva (Old Cave Dog) from
Speleoclub CASSOVIA .
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The stone rain in the Herenyi's Dome (89kB).