Herbstlabyrinth - Adventhöhle-System
The Herbstlabyrinth-Adventhöhle-Höhlensystem near Breitscheid in the Westerwald is the largest Höhlensystem in Hesse and one of the most significant in Germany.
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Herbstlabyrinth - Adventhöhle-System
The Herbstlabyrinth-Adventhöhle-Höhlensystem near Breitscheid in the Westerwald is the largest Höhlensystem in Hesse and one of the most significant in Germany.
Breitscheid
Length: 13183 m · Depth: 92 m
Updated record
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The Herbstlabyrinth-Adventhöhle-Höhlensystem near Breitscheid in the Westerwald is the largest Höhlensystem in Hesse and one of the most significant in Germany.
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© KlausFoehl · CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbstlabyrinth04_2013-04-29.jpg
Description
Morphology
The surveyed total passage length of the giant cave was 13,183 meters in March 2025 (according to other sources already over 14,500 m), and the depth is 92 meters. The cave has not yet been fully explored.
Speleothems
The dripstone cave is distinguished by an extremely clean, white to translucent and untouched sinter decoration that is unmatched over a wide area. In particular, the length and variety of the excentriques is unique in Germany.
Other details
The Herbstlabyrinth-Adventhöhle-Höhlensystem is the largest Höhlensystem in Hesse and one of the most significant in Germany. A small part, the so-called “Knöpfchenhalle,” was opened in 2009 as a show cave, which is also the information center of the National Geopark Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus. The show cave is operated by the municipality of Breitscheid.
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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. · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/23590 · data as of 2026 · 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/644792344 · 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 (Herbstlabyrinth-Adventhöhle-System) · 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/Herbstlabyrinth-Adventh%C3%B6hle-System · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]