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Frühlinghauser Höhle

The Frühlinghauser Höhle is 18 m long, has additional entrances, and lies in Massenkalk.

Balve 18m

The Frühlinghauser Höhle is 18 m long, has additional entrances, and lies in Massenkalk.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Balve
  • Length: 18 meters
  • Record updated:

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 Frühlinghauser Höhle east of Frühlinghausen is the southernmost cave of the Höhnetalhöhlen. It lies on private ground behind a residential house; in front of the cave there are horse paddocks.

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Entrances

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  1. Frühlinghauser Höhle

    51.325369, 7.843122
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Description

Morphology

The Frühlinghauser Höhle is 18 m long and has additional entrances. It lies in Middle Devonian reef limestone, the so-called Massenkalk.

Other details

In places, typical reef fossils are recognizable in the rock. The beech forest above the cave is protected as the natural monument "Laubwald im Stein".

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Source: Geotopkataster Nordrhein-Westfalen (Geologischer Dienst NRW) (ogc-api.nrw.de), modified. Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0), https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0 Geowissenschaftliche Daten: INSP-GeotopeinNRW @ Geologischer Dienst NRW · 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/23702 · 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 · Location data: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/. · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/928930058 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]