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Bleßberghöhle

The Bleßberghöhle, discovered in March 2008, is a dripstone cave in the Lower Muschelkalk whose passage extends from the Tunnel for around 15 meters before narrowing into fissures and continues westward for several hundred meters.

Schalkau

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Bleßberghöhle

The Bleßberghöhle, discovered in March 2008, is a dripstone cave in the Lower Muschelkalk whose passage extends from the Tunnel for around 15 meters before narrowing into fissures and continues westward for several hundred meters.

Schalkau

Updated record

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The Bleßberghöhle, discovered in March 2008, is a dripstone cave in the Lower Muschelkalk whose passage extends from the Tunnel for around 15 meters before narrowing into fissures and continues westward for several hundred meters.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Schalkau
  • Record updated:

Caves are protected biotopes (§30 BNatSchG). Caves used by bats as winter quarters must not be entered from 1 October to 31 March (§39(6) BNatSchG), except show caves and their developed parts.

Location

The Bleßberghöhle is located in Thuringia. Its passage runs from west-northwest to east-southeast and crosses the Bleßbergtunnel of the new Ebensfeld–Erfurt line; the crossing point is about 250 meters from the Tunnel's south portal.

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Entrances

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  1. Bleßberghöhle

    50.428500, 11.020000
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Description

Morphology

The cave lies in the Lower Muschelkalk. East of the Tunnel tube, a walkable cavity passes into narrow fissures after around 15 meters, while the cave extends westward for several hundred meters.

Speleothems

The Bleßberghöhle is a dripstone cave.

Other details

The Bleßberghöhle is sometimes also called Herrenberghöhle. It was discovered in March 2008 during construction of the Bleßbergtunnel.

History

The access created during the construction work was permanently sealed in 2009. In spring 2012, a research access to the cave was created.

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Source: Wikidata – cave items (Germany) (www.wikidata.org), modified. CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Wikidata (CC0 1.0) · data as of 2026 · Source: German Wikipedia – article leads (cave descriptions) (de.wikipedia.org), modified. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Wikipedia contributors (de.wikipedia.org), CC BY-SA 4.0 · Text by Wikipedia contributors (Bleßberghöhle) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ · description · obtained 2026-11-13 · https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ble%C3%9Fbergh%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026