Our History

The speleologists of the "Steirisches Salzkammergut" can look back on a history of over 85 years of cave exploration activities in the region. Since then new clubs have appeared due to speleopolitics. Eventually the club changed back to the original name in 1981.

The history of karst explorations brought a large number of discoveries, some of them like the "Schwarzmooskogeleishöhle" were extraordinary for the time.

The "Verein für Höhlenkunde in Obersteier" of Bad Mitterndorf still has members with over 50 years of membership. They support the younger cavers, tell them about secret entrances discovered at a time when there where no TVs, but already caves. And they give evidence that there might come a time when the currently active cave explorers will be telling about secret entrances discovered at a time when there was no "Virtual PC-Cavinging".