Brunnensteighöhle

The Brunnensteighöhle is a water-bearing cave on the northern Albtrauf near Aufhausen.

Bad Überkingen

The Brunnensteighöhle is a water-bearing cave on the northern Albtrauf near Aufhausen.

Characteristics

• Type: Cave
• Municipality: Bad Überkingen
• 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 Brunnensteighöhle lies at the edge of the Swabian Alb on the northern Albtrauf near the village of Aufhausen.

Map

Entrances

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1. Brunnensteighöhle

   48.589136, 9.771637
   UTM 32U (ETRS89) 556902 5382071
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Description

Hydrology

The cave is water-bearing; the spring feeds the Autalbach via cascades, which flows into the Fils near Bad Überkingen.

Other details

The cave is protected as a geotope under the name Brunnensteighöhle with waterfall.

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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) · 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 (Brunnensteighöhle) · 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/Brunnensteigh%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026