Olm
Olms are the nine species in the genus Proteus.
Olms are the nine species in the genus Proteus. They are aquatic salamanders, and the only exclusively cave-dwelling chordate genus found in Europe. The genus is assigned to the family Proteidae, along with Necturus. In contrast to most amphibians, this genus is entirely aquatic; eating, sleeping, and breeding underwater. Living in caves found in the Dinaric Alps, the genus is endemic to the waters that flow underground through the extensive limestone bedrock of the karst of Central and Southeastern Europe in the basin of the Soča River near Trieste, Italy, southern Slovenia, southwestern Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Introduced populations are found near Vicenza, Italy, and Kranj, Slovenia. It was first mentioned in 1689 by the local naturalist Valvasor in his Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, who reported that, after heavy rains, the olms were washed up from the underground waters and were believed by local people to be a cave dragon's offspring.
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Getting to Olm
- Airports
- Luxembourg-Findel (LUX), 16 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 96 km · Maastricht Aachen (MST), 140 km
- Stations
- Capellen railway station, 2.5 km · Mamer railway station, 3.9 km
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → OlmTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Maastricht → Olm134 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · €19–26
- Charleroi → Olm139 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · €19–26
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Olm
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Olm. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIn addition, there's a funicular between Pfaffenthal and Kirchberg.
- Get aroundIn addition, the Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg station has a quirky funicular that takes travelers from the Rout Bréck-Pfaffenthal tram stop on top of the Kirchberg hill to the train station, closer to the Pfaffenthal valley.
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