Brillenhöhle

The Brillenhöhle, formerly Zwickerhöhle, is the ruin of a former horizontal cave in the Achtal near Weiler in the Alb-Donau-Kreis of Baden-Württemberg and a significant Upper Paleolithic site.

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Brillenhöhle

The Brillenhöhle, formerly Zwickerhöhle, is the ruin of a former horizontal cave in the Achtal near Weiler in the Alb-Donau-Kreis of Baden-Württemberg and a significant Upper Paleolithic site.

Blaubeuren

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The Brillenhöhle, formerly Zwickerhöhle, is the ruin of a former horizontal cave in the Achtal near Weiler in the Alb-Donau-Kreis of Baden-Württemberg and a significant Upper Paleolithic site.

Characteristics

Type: Cave
Municipality: Blaubeuren
Record updated: November 13, 2026

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 Brillenhöhle is located in the Achtal near Weiler in the Alb-Donau-Kreis of Baden-Württemberg.

Entrances

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Brillenhöhle
48.405411, 9.778028
UTM 32U (ETRS89) 557581 5361654
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Description

Morphology

The Brillenhöhle is the ruin of a former horizontal cave.

Other details

The Brillenhöhle is a significant Upper Paleolithic site of the prehistory of Baden-Württemberg.

History

The Brillenhöhle was formerly called Zwickerhöhle.

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Source: Geotopkataster Baden-Württemberg (Regierungspräsidium Freiburg – LGRB) (services.lgrb-bw.de), modified. Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0), https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0 Datenquelle: Regierungspräsidium Freiburg - LGRB, www.lgrb-bw.de · data as of 2026 · Source: Wikidata – cave items (Germany) (www.wikidata.org), modified. CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Wikidata (CC0 1.0) · names · obtained 2026-11-13 · 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 (Brillenhöhle) · 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/Brillenh%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026