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Heinrichshöhle

Heinrichshöhle

The Heinrichshöhle is a large-scale show cave in Middle Devonian mass limestone and part of the Perick-Höhlensystem.

Hemer 3000m

The Heinrichshöhle is a large-scale show cave in Middle Devonian mass limestone and part of the Perick-Höhlensystem.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Hemer
  • Length: 3000 meters
  • Record updated:

Caves are protected biotopes (§30 BNatSchG).

Location

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Entrances

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  1. Heinrichshöhle

    51.378477, 7.776751
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Rainer Lippert · CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ · Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heinrichsh%C3%B6hle,_5.jpg

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Description

Morphology

The Heinrichshöhle is a large-scale cave in Middle Devonian mass limestone.

Other details

The Heinrichshöhle is used as a show cave. It belongs to the Perick-Höhlensystem, which has a total passage length of 3500m. Besides many significant fossil finds, a complete cave bear skeleton, among other things, can be seen in the show cave.

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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/23589 · data as of 2026 · Location data: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/. · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/652723738 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]