Falkensteiner Höhle
The Falkensteiner Höhle is an active water cave on the Swabian Alb between Grabenstetten and Bad Urach, whose water forms the spring of the Elsach.
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Falkensteiner Höhle
The Falkensteiner Höhle is an active water cave on the Swabian Alb between Grabenstetten and Bad Urach, whose water forms the spring of the Elsach.
Grabenstetten
Length: 3987 m
Updated record
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The Falkensteiner Höhle is an active water cave on the Swabian Alb between Grabenstetten and Bad Urach, whose water forms the spring of the Elsach.
Photos
© Holger Gruber at German Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 2.0 DE, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/de/ · Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Falkensteiner_Hoehle.jpg
Description
Hydrology
The Falkensteiner Höhle is an active water cave, meaning that precipitation seeps through the karst of the Alb plateau, collects in water-bearing fissures and passages, and reaches the surface through the cave. The waters of the cave form the spring of the Elsach.
Progression
The Falkensteiner Höhle is not a show cave but a natural cave or wild cave, whose entry is permitted only on application and is not without danger.
History
Since 2019 it has been designated a significant geotope and geopoint of the UNESCO Global Geopark Swabian Alb. From 1979 to 2009 it was also designated a natural monument.
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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 · Contains information from Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · length · obtained 2026-11-13 · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/23582 · 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 (Falkensteiner Höhle) · 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/Falkensteiner_H%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]