Frickenhöhle

The Frickenhöhle is a natural karst cave on the western slope of the Hoher Fricken, 3,222 m long and with an elevation difference of about 60 m.

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The Frickenhöhle is a natural karst cave on the western slope of the Hoher Fricken, 3,222 m long and with an elevation difference of about 60 m.

Characteristics

• Type: Cave
• Municipality: Farchant
• 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.

Seasonal access restriction recorded in OpenStreetMap: no @ (Oct-Mar)

Location

The Frickenhöhle is located near the Upper Bavarian municipality of Farchant in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, halfway up at 1,258 m on the western slope of the Hoher Fricken, about 2 km east of Farchant.

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1. Frickenhöhle

   47.529781, 11.140389
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Description

Morphology

The Frickenhöhle is a natural karst cave. It is 3,222 m long and has an elevation difference of about 60 m.

Hydrology

Shortly behind the entrance lies a lake that can only be dived through with a neoprene suit or climbed around with a rope. In the further section there are several sumps.

Progression

The cave can be reached as a side trip on the hiking trail from Farchant in about 1¾ hours on a steep path.

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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/715720510 · 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 (Frickenhöhle) · 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/Frickenh%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]