Dahlmann-Höhle
The Dahlmannhöhle is a 31-metre-long river cave in Middle Devonian mass limestone near Balve, whose interior shows water erosion but no speleothems.
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Dahlmann-Höhle
The Dahlmannhöhle is a 31-metre-long river cave in Middle Devonian mass limestone near Balve, whose interior shows water erosion but no speleothems.
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The Dahlmannhöhle is a 31-metre-long river cave in Middle Devonian mass limestone near Balve, whose interior shows water erosion but no speleothems.
Description
Morphology
The cave is 31 metres long. In the rear section it becomes increasingly narrow and rises slightly. The entrance area has a width of 1.8 metres and a height of 1.2 metres.
Speleothems
The cave interior shows no speleothems and only minor sinter formations.
Hydrology
The cave interior shows water erosion from past times.
Other details
The Dahlmannhöhle is a river cave in Middle Devonian mass limestone near Balve. It is owned by the Rheinisch-Westfälische Kalkwerke and is not accessible to the public.
History
Minor finds from the pre-Roman Iron Age indicate a settlement. The local historian Beck described in December 1951 a find with a “simple rim of a bowl, core grey-black, coarsely tempered with calcite, grey-brown outside and inside, smoothed in horizontal lines”. The cave was placed under protection as a ground monument on 12 December 1991.
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Contains information from © OpenStreetMap contributors, www.openstreetmap.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/589066714 · 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 (Dahlmannhöhle) · 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/Dahlmannh%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]