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Cave protection zones - Čachtická Cave

The only bigger cave in the Čachtický karst. It was formed in the pale grey from small-crystalline to fine-grained limestones of the Middle Triassic (Ladin). The length of measured parts of the cave is 750 m with depth of 90 m. It is a fissure cave with abyss character with intermittent underground water course. Except for flowstone decoration also guano was found here.

Čachtická Cave

Generally binding regulation to declare the protection zone of the national nature monument:

GENERALLY BINDING REGULATION

The Regional Office for the Environment in Trenčín
no. 5/2005 of December 7, 2005,
which declares the protection zone of the Čachtická Cave national nature monument
Čachtická Cave

The Regional Office for the Environment inTrenčín according to the § 24 sections 8 and 21 of the act no. 543/2002 of the Legal Codes on nature and landscape protection (further on only „act“) and § 7 section 2 of the act no. 525/2003 of the Legal Codes on state administration of the environment and on change and amendments of some acts enacts:

§ 1
Subject of protection of the national nature monument Čachtická Cave
  1. The protection zone of the national nature monument Čachtická Cave (further on only „protection zone of the national nature monument“) is declared.
  2. The subject of protection in the protection zone of the national nature monument are the protection of rock massive and karst phenomena where the Čachtická cave is situated.
  3. The conditions for protection are in force on the territory of protection zone of the national nature monument according to § 24 sections 9 and 10 of the act.
§ 2
Demarcation of borders of the national nature monument protection zone
  1. The national nature monument protection zone is located in Nové Mesto nad Váhom district, in the cadastral territory Čachtice on plots no. 3340 - part, 3344 - part, 3345, 3347, 3354, 3346/1, 3346/2, 3346/3, 3348/1 - part, 3348/2, 3349/1, 3349/2, 3349/3, 3350 – part and in the cadastral territory Nové Mesto nad Váhom on plots no. 5824 - part, 5829 - part, 5831 - part, 5832 - part, 5830/1 - part according to the cadastral map M 1: 5 000 Nové Mesto nad Váhom with state to December 31, 2004 and Piešťany with state to October 6, 2004.
  2. The national nature monument protection zone covers the area of 379,3190 ha.
  3. The national nature monument protection zone is marked in the field according to the cadastral maps in scale M 1 : 5 000 and forest stand map M 1 : 10 000, which is a part of the forest management plan on the forest management unit Stará Turá with state to December 31, 2001.
§ 3
Marking and indication of the national nature monument protection zone
  1. The borders of the national nature monument protection zone will be marked in the land registry. The maps with plotted borders of the national nature monument protection zone are together with this regulation and other documentation stored and available for inspection in the state list of individually protected parts of nature and landscape at the Regional Office for the Environment in Trenčín, at the Slovak Caves Administration in Liptovský Mikuláš, at the State Nature Conservation of the Slovak Republic – Administration of the Protected Landscape Area Malé Karpaty in Trnava, at the Peripheral Office for the Environment in Nové Mesto nad Váhom and at the Municipal Office in Čachtice, Town Office in Nové Mesto nad Váhom and at the administrator of state forests – Forests of the Slovak Republic, state enterprise – Branch Enterprise in Trenčín.
  2. Indication of the national nature monument protection zone in the field will be provided by the Slovak Caves Administration within six months from the date of effectiveness of this regulation.
§ 4
Effectiveness

This regulation is effective from January 1, 2006.

Ing. Ferdinand Galko
Head of the Regional Office for the Environment in Trenčín